Advanced Cardiology Clinic Project ECHO™ Video Conference
2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month
4:00–5:00 p.m.

Deborah Ellen Meyers, MD, FRACP, FACC

Dr. Deborah Meyers joined the Texas Heart Institute and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in June 2012. Dr. Meyers is board certified in general cardiology and in advanced heart failure and transplantation. 

In the course of her work in this area she developed a keen interest in systems of health care delivery and has an interest in overcoming the many obstacles that confront patients when they seek help for chronic and complex health conditions. 

Dr. Meyers graduated with honors from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and stayed on to do her internship and junior year of Residency. She completed her Senior Residency year and her Cardiology Fellowship at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis. She then completed her Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. 

Dr Meyers has a range of research interests that include system of care delivery models, patient centered practice models, medical decision making, the role of palliative services in heart failure, physical activity, chronic disease management and the relationship of exercise and sleep disordered breathing in heart failure patients. 

Dr. Meyers is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Heart Failure Society of America, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and she is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. 

For information on heart disease management and treatment visit, http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fs_heart_failure.htm