The cardiologists in this division are experts in the noninvasive, invasive, diagnostic, and therapeutic methods of responding to heart problems. They are also leaders in scientific research looking for a new and better way to treat patients with diseased hearts so that they may live longer, healthy lives. Cardiologists use a broad range of diagnostic techniques and technologies to detect heart conditions to make an accurate diagnosis.

Cardiologists use a broad range of diagnostic techniques and technologies to detect heart conditions to make an accurate diagnosis. A decision about whether a patient is treated with medicine, an interventional procedure, or requires surgery is usually made jointly by a cardiologist, the patient’s primary care physician, and a cardiac surgeon based on an assessment of the patient’s condition.