Sandra V. Chaparro, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Heart Failure and Transplant Program
tel: 305-243-1940
fax: 305-243-5592
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Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Practice Locations
University of Miami Hospital
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish
Education
| Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH USA |
Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship | 2008 | |
| University of Missouri Columbia, MO USA |
Cardiology Fellowship | 2007 | |
| University of Missouri Columbia, MO USA |
Internal Medicine Residency | 2004 | |
| Stanford University Stanford, CA USA |
Infectious Diseases Fellowship | 2001 |
Before finishing her medical training at the Universidad El Bosque in Bogota, Colombia, she was selected among her classmates to be one out of a hundred medical students that participate in an exchange program with Harvard University for 3 months. Shortly after she continued her training at Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher. Then she completed her internal medicine and cardiology training at the University of Missouri where she gained expertise at implanting defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization devices.
At the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Chaparro gained clinical expertise in the management of critically ill heart failure patients, cardiac transplant patients, and patients who required mechanical cardiac devices, including total artificial heart. While there are some cardiologists who manage heart failure, clinical expertise in the management of advanced heart failure is exceptional and limited to those, like Dr. Chaparro, who have performed advanced training. She developed expert procedural skills in the performance of endomyocardial biopsy, heart catheterizations, and placement of intra-aortic balloon pumps.
Her unique qualifications in a specialty where only a small number of individuals per year receive such highly specialized training make her an expert in the treatment of heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, heart transplants and mechanical support devices at the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital.