Overview
The Center for Multicultural Cardiovascular Care is open to all patients and provides comprehensive heart and vascular care, with a focus on understanding risk factors that can influence individual health and treatment outcomes.
Your heart health is influenced by more than just diet and exercise — it’s shaped by the world around you. Where you live, your access to healthcare, your cultural experiences and your daily environment can all affect your overall well-being. These factors — known as social drivers of health — reflect medical, environmental and access-related influences, as well as social, economic and geographic barriers that can affect a person’s health.
As a leader in heart and vascular care, Cleveland Clinic’s Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute recognizes that some communities experience a higher rate of conditions such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), peripheral arterial disease (PAD), cerebrovascular disease (stroke) and premature kidney/renal failure. These conditions can lead to higher rates of:
- Aortic aneurysm
- Dialysis
- Heart attack
- Heart disease
- Heart failure
- Kidney disease
- Kidney failure
- Kidney transplant
- Limb amputation
- Renal hypertension
- Stroke
- Vascular disease
These conditions can significantly affect quality of life.
Research shows that social drivers of health can influence both disease risk and the ability to access timely care. Understanding these factors helps inform evaluation, care planning and treatment decisions for heart and vascular conditions.
Treatments may include limb revascularization to help prevent amputation, vascular treatment for renal artery disease, coronary artery stent or bypass surgery, carotid artery stent or bypass surgery and aortic aneurysm repair.
The Multicultural Cardiovascular Care Center is designed to:
- Research and improve understanding of heart and vascular conditions in all high-risk populations
- Support appropriate testing and evaluation based on individual risk factors
- Coordinate care using established heart and vascular treatments
- Understand how individual background and experiences may influence treatment response and outcomes
In addition to clinical care, the center works with community partners to support screening and education efforts focused on identifying risk factors and preventing future disease among all high-risk communities.
Learn more about the Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute’s community outreach HERE
View a calendar of all Cleveland Clinic outreach events HERE
What We Treat
Specialists in the Multicultural Cardiovascular Care Center provide risk factor evaluation and planning, general cardiology care and treatment for specific conditions.
Specific conditions treated at the center include:
- Cardiomyopathy
- Heart Failure
- Amyloidosis – ATTR
- Peripheral Artery Disease and amputation prevention
- Carotid Artery Disease and stroke prevention
- Hypertension
- Cardiometabolic Disease (including diabetes and obesity)
- Arrhythmias
Our Team
Leadership:
- Lee Kirksey, MD – Department of Vascular Surgery
Team:
Clinical Cardiology
Electrophysiology
Vascular Medicine
Heart Failure
- Paulino Alvarez, MD
- Emanuel Finet, MD
- Mazen Hanna, MD
- Eileen Hsich, MD
- Miriam Jacob, MD
- Ziad Taimeh, MD
- H. Wilson Tang, MD
Preventive Cardiology
- Luke Laffin, MD - Hypertension Specialist
- Dennis Bruemmer, MD, PhD– Diabetes Specialist
Vascular Surgery
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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What to Expect
Whether you’re coming from around the corner or around the world, you want to know what to expect before, during and after your visit with us. If you have any questions while reviewing this information, please contact us. We are happy to answer any questions you may have.
Becoming a Patient by Discipline
Your needs as a patient can guide your care. For example, you may need monitoring and regular follow-up over a long period of time, or maybe you have just been diagnosed with a condition and need to establish a care and treatment plan. Perhaps you are exploring treatment options and need a surgery consultation. No matter what your needs, we are here for you every step of the way. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call.
By Phone
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
216.444.6697 or toll-free 800.223.2273, ext. 46697
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
toll-free 877-843-2781
Department of Vascular Surgery
216.444.4508 or toll-free 800.223.2273, ext. 44508
Directions
Cleveland Clinic is located at:
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Your appointment will be scheduled in the Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute (J or F Building).
When you make your appointment, ask for your physician’s name and desk number.
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If you have trouble finding your physician’s desk once you arrive at Cleveland Clinic, you can ask any of our Red Coats for directions. They are happy to help.
Online
Use our secure online form to submit an appointment request 24/7. We will receive it and follow-up with you as soon as possible.
Online Second Opinions
Use our secure online form to submit an online second opinion request.
Physician Referrals
Mon. - Fri., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (ET):
toll-free 800.659.7822
More info on referrals, transfers and critical care transport.
At all other times, call Patient Access Services locally 216.444.8302 or toll-free 800.553.5056
