Wai Hong Wilson Tang, MD
Primary Location
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
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Additional Locations
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Driving Directions
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- 216.444.6697
- Desk:
- 216.444.2121
- Fax:
- 216.445.6165
Critical Care Center
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Driving Directions
- Appointment:
- 216.444.6697
- Desk:
- 216.444.2121
- Fax:
- 216.445.6165
Transplantation Center
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
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Treatment & Services
- Biventricular Pacemaker
- Cardiac Oncology
- Cardio-Oncology Center
- Cardiovascular Medicine Department
- George M & Linda H Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
- Heart Failure Section
- Heart Transplantation
- Pericardial Diseases Center
- Ventricular Assist Device
Specialty in Diseases & Conditions
- Amyloidosis
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
- Cancer Heart Disease
- Cardiac transplant
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiorenal Syndrome
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Fabry's Disease
- Familial Cardiomyopathy
- Family History Of Heart Disease
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy
- Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- Sarcoid Heart Disease
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View All PlansAbout Wai Hong Wilson Tang, MD
W. H. Wilson Tang, MD, is Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Clinical Genomics; Research Director, and staff cardiologist in the Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Medicine in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Tang is Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
In addition to office visits, Dr. Tang also offers scheduled follow up virtual visits to select patients, through the Cleveland Clinic Express Care ® Online app. This platform allows patients to see their physician live, using their smartphone, tablet or computer.
Specialty Interests: Dr. Tang’s specialty interests include cardiomyopathy, heart failure including heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory assist devices, cardio-renal diseases, and cancer-related heart diseases.
Number of Procedures performed: Dr. Tang has performed hemodynamic assessments by right heart catheterization, endomyocardial biopsies, and invasive and non-invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing over the past two decades.
Education and Training: Dr. Tang graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in neural sciences from Brown University in Rhode Island, where he matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge University, in England for an honorary one-year period of study in molecular medicine. Dr. Tang received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine, and a research fellowship in heart failure at Stanford University Medical Center. This was followed by clinical cardiology fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic, and an advanced clinical fellowship in heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He was appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 2004 as a Staff Physician in the Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Medicine. Dr. Tang is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. He currently serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Heart Failure Society of America.
Research and Publications: Dr. Tang is a clinician-scientist interested in clinical translational research, with joint appointments with the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Genomic Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute. He leads the Cleveland GeneBank Study as well as the Cleveland Heart and Metabolic Prevention Study to investigate novel mechanisms in the development of heart diseases. Dr. Tang also has leadership role in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Clinical and Translational Sciences Collaborative, overseeing the Hub Research Capacity and directs the Cleveland Clinic Clinical Research Unit. Dr. Tang’s current research interests include the role of counter-regulatory mechanisms in the development and progression of heart failure, integrative genomics and epigenetics in cardiomyopathies, and metabolomics in cardio-renal physiology. Dr. Tang is currently the Principal Investigator for the Cleveland Heart Failure Network as part of the National Heart Failure Clinical Research Network for translational clinical trials. Dr. Tang also serves as the Associate Director for Heart Failure Trials of C5Research, the academic research organization for the coordination of multicenter clinical trials. In 2013, he was elected as member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, a national honor society for physician scientists for his contributions in heart failure and cardiovascular research. Dr. Tang has authored over 500 published peer-reviewed manuscripts in medical and scientific journals as well as 82 chapters in medical textbooks. He currently serves in the Editorial Boards for Journal of the American College of Cardiology Heart Failure, Circulation Heart Failure, and American Heart Journal.
About Dr. Tang: "It is a privilege to make a significant impact in someone’s life, and to discover new and better ways to take care of them."
Leisure time activities: Dr. Tang enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.
Education & Professional Highlights
Appointed
2004
Education & Fellowships
Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic
Cardiology, Heart Failure Transplantation
Cleveland,
OH USA
2004
Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic
Advanced heart failure/transplant
Cleveland,
OH USA
2004
Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic
Cardiology
Cleveland,
OH USA
2003
Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic
Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland,
OH USA
2003
Fellowship - Stanford University School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford,
CA USA
2000
Fellowship - Stanford University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral research fellowship
Stanford,
CA USA
2000
Residency - Stanford University Medical Center
Internal Medicine
Palo Alto,
CA USA
1999
Residency - Stanford University Medical Center
Internal Medicine
Stanford,
CA USA
1999
Internship - Stanford University Medical Center
Internal Medicine
Palo Alto,
CA USA
1997
Internship - Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford,
CA USA
1997
Medical School - Harvard Medical School
Boston,
MA USA
1996
Medical School - Harvard Medical School
Boston,
MA USA
1996
Undergraduate - Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Rhode Island Hospital
Natural Sciences
Providence,
RI USA
1992
Professional Highlights
- Director, Center for Clinical Genomics, Cleveland Clinic
- Director, NIH Clinical and Translational Sciences Collaborative Hub Research Capacity, Cleveland Clinic
- Associate Director for Heart Failure Trials, Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research (C5Research)
- Medical Director, Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
- Research Director, Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic
Certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Cardiovascular Disease - Cardiovascular Disease
- Cardiovascular Disease - Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Specialty Interests
Cardiomyopathy, heart failure, heart transplantation, ventricular assist device, myocardial biopsy, cardiac catheterization, cancer heart disease, amyloidosis, cardiorenal syndrome, inherited cardiovascular diseases
Awards & Honors
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology, 2005
- Fellow, American Heart Association, 2006
- Elected member, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 2013
- Top Doctors for Cardiovascular Diseases (2012-7) and Cancer (Cardiovascular Disease, 2014-7)
- 2016 Maria and Sam Miller Professional Excellence Award for Scientific Achievement in Clinical Research
- Fellow, Heart Failure Society of America, 2017
Innovations & Patents
- Research funding from National Institutes of Health
Memberships
- American College of Cardiology
- American Heart Association
- Heart Failure Society of America
- International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
- American Society of Clinical Investigations
- International Society of Cardiomyopathies, Myocarditis, and Heart Failure
Research & Publications
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As of 11/2/2017, Dr. Tang has reported the financial relationships with the companies listed below. In general, patients should feel free to contact their doctor about any of the relationships and how the relationships are overseen by Cleveland Clinic. To learn more about Cleveland Clinic's policies on collaborations with industry and innovation management, go to our Integrity in Innovation page.
Consulting and/or Speaking. Dr. Tang receives fees of $5,000 or more per year as a paid consultant, speaker or member of an advisory committee for the following companies:
- Horizon CME, Inc.
Public Health Service-Reportable Financial Conflicts of Interest. Cleveland Clinic scientists and physicians engage in basic, translational and clinical research activities, working to solve health problems, enhance patient care and improve quality of life for patients. Interactions with industry are essential to bringing the researchers' discoveries to the public, but can present the potential for conflicts of interest related to their research activities. Click here to view a listing of instances where Cleveland Clinic has identified a Public Health Service (PHS)-Reportable Financial Conflict of Interest and has put measures in place to ensure that, to the extent possible, the design, conduct and reporting of the research is free from bias.
* Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists subscribe to the guidance presented in the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals and the AdvaMed Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals. As such, gifts of substantial value are generally prohibited.
79 Patient Satisfaction Reviews
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Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.
The comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cleveland Clinic.
| Overall | Star Ratings | |
|---|---|---|
| Explains | 4.8 | |
| Listens | 4.9 | |
| Courtesy, Respect & Concern | 4.9 | |
| Knows Medical History | 5 | |
| Time Spent with Patient | 4.8 | |
| Patient Rating of Doctor | 4.9 |
7 Patient Comments
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Reviewed on Jul 10, 2018
I was seen by the clinician/nurse promptly after a short wait in the waiting room. When the nurse finished, my wife and I waited in the exam room for more than 45 minutes. No one told us anything and I finally went looking for someone to see if we had been forgotton. We were shown to another room and the doctor appeared shortly thereafter and apologized for being late due to other patients, etc. It would have been OK if someone had let us know that he was late and why. We had a good meeting, he sent me for tests and then asked me to come back at the end of the day at which time he met with us quickly to follow up on the tests and plan moving forward.
Reviewed on Jun 8, 2018
Dr. Tang is the best clinician in virtually every way that I have had take care of me in my entire life.
Reviewed on Jun 8, 2018
Dr. Tang is the single best physician I have ever worked with. I, myself, am a retired physician. He spent 1 1/2 hours in the office with us on his normal vacation day. He came in to see me while on vacation because I had another appointment to see a clinician on the same day. He is amazingly thorough, comprehensive, responsive, and ideal in every way as a clinician.
Reviewed on Dec 12, 2017
Dr. Tang is always superb in discussing medications and treatment. He is always considerate of my concerns.
Reviewed on Oct 17, 2017
As always the Clinic was first rate.
Reviewed on Sep 1, 2017
Saw doctor very little.
Reviewed on Aug 1, 2017
Outstanding staff