Physicians

Ernest V. Gervino Sc.D., FACSM

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Adjunct Associate Professor, Northeastern University

Research Description

Identifying patients at increased risk for ischemic events post operatively.

Diagnostic and prognostic accuracy of non-invasive stress testing in heart failure and ischemic heart disease.

Alternative methods to decrease the risk of future cardiac events by lifestyle changes.

Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of non-invasive testing for the detection of myocardial ischemic syndrome.

Utilization of exercise testing to evaluate device or drug efficacy.

Biography

Dr. Gervino is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Clinical Physiology Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Cardiology Division. He received his doctoral degree from Boston University in 1982 in Applied Anatomy and Physiology. He has held academic appointments/affiliations with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Northeastern University. He has served as Director of the Exercise Testing Core Lab for the Harvard Clinical Research Institute on a number if national and international trials since 1998 to the present. He serves as a reviewer for several peer review journals and has served on ACC/AHA committee on position stand on who is competent to supervise exercise testing.

Phone

617.667.2690

Address

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cardiovascular Division, East Campus, 330 Brookline Ave.
Boston, MA 02215

Significant Publications

A blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of percutaneous laser myocardial revascularization to improve angina symptoms in patients with severe coronary disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005 Nov 15;46(10):1812-9.