“Implementation of a Cardiac PET program provides the best study with the highest diagnostic accuracy, most efficient protocols, lowest radiation exposure for your patients and the most economic study for your practice.”
Dr. Heller has more than 30 years of experience in clinical cardiology and nuclear cardiology. He established the first PET program in Connecticut that focused on cardiac perfusion, myocardial viability assessment and cardiac sarcoid. He is a former program director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at Hartford Hospital/University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Heller is past-president of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and has been a member of the Editorial Boards of several journals including American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. He is also past-president of the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), as well as past-president of the IAC-Nuclear-PET Division. Dr. Heller has authored over 175 peer-reviewed manuscripts, he is also Co-editor of Nuclear Cardiology Practical Applications (2nd Edition, McGraw Hill), Nuclear Cardiology: Technical Applications (McGraw Hill), and the Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology: Cardiac SPECT and PET (Springer).
