Physicians

Biography

Dr. Garcia received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Arizona. He was an Intern, and Resident at Parkland Memorial Hospital, University of Texas at Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He received his training in Cardiology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa and as an interventional cardiologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Further, he received his peripheral vascular training at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tuft's University, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Garcia then served as the Chief of Vascular Medicine and Peripheral Vascular Interventions for the Florida Heart Group in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Garcia has now returned to Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital as a full time interventional cardiologist and Director of the Peripheral Cardiovascular Program and Peripheral Interventions at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as well as the Director of the Interventional Fellowship Program.

Dr. Garcia is Director of the Peripheral Cardiovascular Program and Director of Peripheral Interventions at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. This program has developed into one of the busiest in the city of Boston, perfrorming over 600 peripheral procedures per year. Dr. Garcia's work has largely focused arterial occlusion-reperfusion models and the efficacy of therapeutic modalities or interventions, with regard to free radical generation or endovascular stenting outcomes. Dr. Garcia continues his research interests in a wide variety of studies including acute MI studies, unstable angina studies, interventional trials, peripheral interventional trials, angiogenesis trials, imaging modality studies, and numerous device trials for both the coronary and peripheral circulations. His work has been presented in numerous manuscripts, abstracts, textbooks and textbook chapters.

Dr. Garcia is a manuscript reviewer for Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), and the Journal of Endovascular Therapy.
Dr. Garcia authors the chapter on peripheral vascular imaging and intervention in Cardiac Imaging published as a companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease. Dr. Garcia co-authors the chapter "Occlusive Disease of Branches of the Aorta/Peripheral Angioplasty" of Sabiston and Spencer's Surgery of the Chest. Dr. Garcia also authors the chapter "Cardiac Catheterization" in this same text.

Dr. Garcia lectures on the topics of acute coronary syndromes, interventional cardiology and peripheral angiography and intervention.