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Maya S. Safarova, MD, PhD, FNLA, FACC, FAHA
Assistant Professor
Location
- Pleasant Valley Health Center
- 3200 Pleasant Valley Rd.
- West Bend, WI 53095
Specialties
- Cardiology/Cardiovascular Medicine
I joined the Medical College of Wisconsin with a goal to serve the diverse community bringing the cutting edge research to clinical practice through clinical trials and translational science. My clinical interests include cardiovascular prevention, women's health, heritable lipid disorders, aortopathies as well as Echocardiography. My research program is on the intersection of genetics, informatics, and imaging, focusing on vascular aging using epigenetic algorithms and approaches enabling a new level of multiomics research with the mission of building healthier lives, free of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. I am passionate about personalized prevention. I believe that each individual deserves to receive exceptional care and there is a need for a new perspective in assessing cardiovascular risk in clinical practice tailored to each individual patient accounting for gender, race and ethnicity, the probability of disease progression, in other words, each individual genetic make-up.
Overview
Diseases and Conditions
- Genetic Lipid Disorders
- Aortic Disease
- Lipoprotein Disorders
- Statin Intolerance
Treatments and Services
- Pharmacogenomics
- Preventive Cardiology
- Transesophageal Echocardiography
- Women and Heart Disease
- Computed Tomography
- Nuclear Cardiology
- Transthoracic Echocardiography
- SPECT
- Genetic Testing for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease
- Lipoprotein Apheresis
- Cardiometabolic Clinical Trials
Patients Ages Seen
- Adult
Languages
- English
- Russian
- Turkish
- Azeri
Hospital Affiliations
- Froedtert Hospital – Milwaukee
- Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital – Menomonee Falls
- Froedtert West Bend Hospital – West Bend
Board Certifications
- Adult Echocardiography
- Clinical Lipidology
- Internal Medicine
- Nuclear Cardiology
- Cardiovascular Disease
Clinic Locations
Pleasant Valley Health Center
- 3200 Pleasant Valley Rd.
- West Bend, WI 53095
- (262) 836-7300
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Heart and Vascular Center - Center for Advanced Care - Froedtert Hospital
- 8900 West Doyne Ave.
- Milwaukee, WI 53226
- (414) 805-6000
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Biography
I graduated with honors from the First Moscow State Medical University, and further continued with a PhD in Cardiology and Biochemistry focusing on lipoprotein(a) and various treatment modalities for heritable lipid disorders, including lipoprotein apheresis, at the National Medical Research Center. To acquire expertise in genetic epidemiology and clinical informatics I did my postdoctoral training in Cardiovascular Genomics at Mayo Clinic in Rochester developing tools and implementing innovative systems for discovery with a specific focus on patients with familial hypercholesterolemia and early vascular disease. My further training included internal medicine residency at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School - Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center and Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center where I served as a chief fellow.
Education and Training
Doctor of Medicine - I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University - Moscow (2009)
PhD in Cardiovascular Disease - National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Medicine - Moscow (2009-2013)
Residency in Cardiology - National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Medicine - Moscow (2010-2011)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Genomics, Informatics - Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN (2014-2017)
Residency in Internal Medicine - Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center - Livingston , NJ (2017-2020)
Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine - University of Kansas - Lawrence City, KS (2020-2023)