Faculty - HCM Clinic

Marc D. Feldman, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic
Associate Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Email - feldmanm@uthscsa.edu

Board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology; special interest in the treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy(HCM). He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and completed a cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston. His clinical duties include a referral practice in clinical cardiology, cardiac catheterization, coronary intervention and coordinates a clinic directed toward the care and follow-up of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. As director of the HCM clinic he is involved in the care of every patient evaluated for HCM. His focus is on the use and performing alcohol septal ablation as treatment for HCM once medical therapy has failed. This is a special heart catheterization procedure in which an alcohol solution is injected directly into a small branch of the coronary (heart) arteries. This causes a localized heart attack in the overgrown heart muscle responsible for the symptoms of HCM. As a result, the muscle size is reduced. This new treatment can be helpful to patients with HCM.

A.J. Carpenter, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
Email - carpentera2@uthscsa.edu

Board Certified in Surgery and Thoracic Surgery. She earned her PhD in Physiology from Penn State University in 1981 and her medical degree form George Washington University in 1989. She was a member of the US Air Force and was the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Wilford Hall Medical Center until accepting an Associate Professor position at UTHSCSA in June 2003. Dr. Carpenter is predominantly an adult cardiac surgeon. Her role in the HCM clinic includes the evaluation and performance of patients for surgical myectomy. This procedure is an open-heart operation where heart muscle is removed and in some cases is the best treatment for long-term relief from this disease.

John M. Erikson, MD, PhD, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Residency Program
Director, UPG Non-Invasive Cardiology
Co-director, UPG Heart Station
E-mail: erikson@uthscsa.edu

Board-certified in Internal Medicine and cardiovascular disease, he earned an medical degree and Ph.D in biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He has a special interest in echocardiography, completing an advanced fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Dr. Erikson's interests include the therapeutic use of echocardiographic contrast agents for delivering therapy during acute ischemia/reperfusion and the attenuation of inflammatory cytokines in post-ischemic myocardium using antisense oligonucleotides.

Janet Hays, MD, FACC
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director, UPG Nuclear Cardiology
Co-director, UPG Heart Station
E-mail: hays@uthscsa.edu

A graduate of UTHSCSA, she received her medicine and cardiology training at Brooke Army Medical Center. After gaining experience in both military medicine and private practice, and gaining additional skills in interventional and nuclear cardiology, she came to UTHSCSA in 1998. Here, she focuses on clinical teaching and the care of patients with cardiac disease. She is active in staffing the cath lab, the echo lab, and the CCU. She has a special focus on nuclear cardiology and has opened a state of the art outpatient nuclear cardiac facility, where fellows are welcome to join reading sessions. Her role in the HCM clinic is in the imaging of patients of HCM. Her research interests lie in the clinical care and management of patients. She is board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology. Dr. Hays is also very active in the community, and has served at all levels in the San Antonio Cardiovascular Society.

Manoj M. Panday, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
E-mail: panday@uthscsa.edu
Dr. Panday is a Cardiologist specializing in Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed a Cardiology fellowship at the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia and an Electrophysiology subspecialty fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Dr. Panday performs pacemaker and defibrillator implantations, electrophysiology studies, and cardiac ablations for heart rhythm disorders. He provides medical and interventional therapies for HCM patients with electrical disturbances of the heart. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Nuclear Cardiology, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.