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Estefania Oliveros, MD, MSc, FACC, FACP

Estefania Oliveros, MD, MSc, FACC, FACP

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Originally from Venezuela. I completed my medical degree at the Universidad Central De Venezuela, followed by Research Fellowships at the Lumen Foundation and Mayo Clinic. I worked with creation of STEMI networks in developing countries and the concepts of obesity. Later on, I did my residency in Internal Medicine at Temple University Hospital, followed a Cardiovascular Fellowship at Rush University Medical Center, and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital. Currently, she works at Temple University Hospital in the Section of Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Failure and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Disease. This is the second largest center in the US managing patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Dr. Oliveros created the Cardio-Obstetrics Program and is the Medical Director. The goal of the program is to improve maternal health in Philadelphia by creating systems to support pregnant people in an period time with high maternal mortality rates.

She is part of several international and national working groups to promote and support minorities and women in medicine, including Women as One Parental Working Group, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Women in Medicine Committee, ACC Social Media FIT, and SOS Venezuela (Telemedicine Educational Program). Dr. Oliveros also a cardiology-elected representative at the Philadelphia Maternal Mortality Review Committee.

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