John Power, MD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Academic Interests

Dr. Power practices cardiology at the Heart and Vascular Institute at UPMC Shadyside and UPMC St. Margaret.

He is one of the editors for the American College of Cardiology's Heart Songs Murmur of the Month, an online program for improving ausculation of heart murmurs.
He also trains cardiology fellows in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.

    Education & Training

  • MD, Hahnemann University/Drexel
  • Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
  • Fellowship, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Recent Publications

Power JA, Thompson DV, Rayarao G, Doyle M, Biederman RW. Cardiac magnetic resonance radiofrequency tissue tagging for diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis: A proof of concept study. J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg. 2016; 151(5): 1348-55.

Stone GW, Teirstein PS, Rubenstein R, Schmidt D, Whitlow PL, Kosinski EJ, Mishkel G, Power JA. A prospective, multicenter, randomized trial of percutaneous transmyocardial laser revascularization in patients with non-recanilizable chronic total occlusions. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2002; 39(10): 1581-7.

Girl S, Ito S, Landusky AJ, Mehran R, Margolis J, Gilmore P, Garratt KN, Cummins F, Moses J, Rentrop P, Oesterle S, Power J, et al. Clinical and angiographic outcome in the laser angioplasty for restenotic stents (LARS) multicenter registry. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2001; 52(1): 24-34.

Strauss BH, Natarajan MK, Batchelor WB, Yardley DE, Bittl JA, Sanborn TA, Power JA, Watson LE, Moothart R, Tcheng JE, Chisolm RJ. Early and late quantitative angiographic results of vein graft lesions treated by excimer laser with adjunctive balloon angioplasty. Circulation. 1995; 92(3): 348-56.

Bittl JA, Sanborn TA, Yardley DE, Tcheng JE, Power JA, et al. Predictions of outcomes of percutaneous excimer laser coronary angioplasty of saphenous vein bypass graft lesions. American Journal of Cardiology. 1994; 144-8.