Eric J. Eichhorn, MD

Specialty:
Interventional Cardiology
Heart Failure Management

Practice Location:
7777 Forest Lane
Suite A-202
Dallas, Texas 75230

Eric J. Eichhorn, M.D., F.A.C.C., received his medical education at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he also completed an Internship and Residency.
His postgraduate training included Fellowships at the New England Deaconess Hospital (Harvard) and the New England Medical Center (Tufts), both in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Eichhorn is board certified as a specialist in cardiovascular diseases.

Dr. Eichhorn is currently the Medical Director of the Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute (CRSTI) and a cardiologist with The Dallas Heart Group and CSANT, PA. Formerly, Dr. Eichhorn served as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Dallas Veterans Administration Medical Center and is now an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver.

His research interests include the use of beta-adrenergic blockade in patients with congestive heart failure, and substance abuse and its effect on the heart. Dr. Eichhorn has been an invited lecturer on these topics and others at grand rounds and symposia sponsored by hospitals and medical societies. In addition, he was Study Co-chairman and Principal Investigator for the Beta-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST) sponsored by the Clinical Trials Division of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Cooperative Studies Program of the Veterans Administration.

Dr. Eichhorn is author and coauthor of numerous articles and abstracts for such notable journals as The New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and American Journal of Cardiology. He is also on the editorial board for many of these publications and serves as a reviewer for several other well-known medical journals.

Dr. Eichhorn has received several honors during his professional career, including the Arthur S. Flemming National Award for Outstanding Service and Scientific Merit given by the Downtown Jaycees of Washington, DC. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Task Force on Heart Failure for the European Society of Cardiology. The Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) awarded him the Paul Dudley White award. Dr. Eichhorn is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the AHA.