William Stewart, M.D.

William James Stewart, MD, has been a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, at Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute since 1984. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and of the American Society of Echocardiography, giving him the titles of FACC and FASE.

Dr. Stewart is board-certified in cardiovascular disease, internal medicine and echocardiography. His specialty interests include valvular heart disease, mitral valve repair, aortic valve repair, clinical cardiology, Doppler echocardiography, hemodynamic research, transesophageal echocardiography and intraoperative echocardiography.

A native of Cleveland, Dr. Stewart underwent fellowship training at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital and at Boston University Medical Center; his residency training in internal medicine was at the University of Michigan. He received his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati, following undergraduate work at Harvard College.

An expert in echocardiography, Dr. Stewart serves on the Writing Committee for the National Board of Echocardiography, the certifying body for fellowship in this field. He has served as Treasurer, on the Board of Directors and on Intraoperative Echocardiography Council for the American Society of Echocardiography.

Also an expert on heart valve problems, Dr. Stewart has helped hundreds of patients decide on the optimum timing for surgery or transcatheter repair of valve stenosis or valve regurgitation of the mitral or the aortic valve. He is a reviewer for Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and Echocardiography. He is on, or has been on, the editorial boards of the journal Echocardiography, the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and Heart Advisor.

Dr. Stewart has published over 150 scientific articles in leading medical journals on his specialty interests and research. He has authored 22 chapters in medical textbooks, related mostly to treatment of valvular heart disease and its management and diagnosis with echocardiography.

On the faculty of Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, he is Director of the Cardiovascular Curriculum and Co-Director of Cardio-Pulmonary-Hematology Block for first- and second-year medical students. He serves on the Program Directors? Committee, and has been Associate Professor of Medicine since 1995.

He was named to "Best Doctors in America" and received similar awards over a dozen times over the last decade. He received the Kaiser-Permanente Teaching Award for Basic Science Education, at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in 2007.

Dr. Stewart is highly involved in family life, with his wife and two children, and is an avid exerciser, sailor, skier and musician. He serves as a worship leader for two local Christian church congregations. He is the Faculty Advisor to the Cleveland Clinic chapter of the Christian Medical and Dental Association. He is a committed believer in Jesus Christ, and has been featured on television for his interests in the integration of medicine and spirituality. Dr. Stewart believes in the power of prayer, working together with scientific medicine, for healing illness.

• Co-Investigator, Everest II Trial, of percutaneous edge-to-edge repair of mitral regurgitation
• Co-Investigator, Partner Trial, of percutaneous aortic valve replacement
• Co-Investigator, Revival Trial, of transcatheter aortic valve replacement using the per-apical approach
• Co-Investigator, Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Clinical Trial (Post CABG Trial)
• Cardiovascular Study Section, Institutional Review Board, Cleveland Clinic, 1987-1996

Cardiovascular Disease

Internal Medicine

• Intraoperative echocardiography
• Transesophageal echocardiography
• Understanding the mechanism of mitral regurgitation to enable mitral valve repair
• Understanding the mechanism of aortic regurgitation to enable aortic valve repair
• Echocardiography in transcatheter (percutaneous) repair for mitral regurgitation
• Echocardiography in transcatheter (percutaneous) aortic valve replacement femoral or apical

• Kaiser-Permanente Teaching Award for Basic Science Education, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, 2007
• America’s Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., New York (peer selection from nationwide survey of 200,000 doctors), 2001-2007 
• Top Docs, Northern Ohio Live magazine, 2007
• Best Doctors in America for Cleveland, Cleveland magazine, 1998, 2002-2006
• Best Doctors in America, Consensus Support of Peers Survey Best Doctors, Inc. Woodward White Press, Aiken, S.C., 1994, 2005  
• Guide to America’s Top Physicians, Consumers’ Research Council of America, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005 
• Champion, Echo Jeopardy, American Society of Echocardiography, 15th Annual Scientific Sessions, San Diego, Calif., 2004 
• The Best Doctors in the Midwest for Echocardiography, Survey of Medical Specialists, Woodward White Press, Aiken, S.C., 1998

• Fellow, American Society of Echocardiography (FASE)
• Fellow, American College of Cardiology (FACC)