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Yaga Szlachcic, M.D.
Associate Chief Medical Officer (CMO)
Dr. Szlachcic serves as Associate CMO and Chief of Cardiology since 1996 at Rancho
Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. She is also Associate
Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Southern
California (USC) where she lectures in hypertension, heart
failure, and myocardial ischemia to medical students, interns,
residents and fellows.
Dr. Sczlachcic is most notable for her research in hypertensive
heart disease; ventricular arrhythmias in hypertension; congestive
heart failure; premature artherosclerosis in patients with spinal
cord injury; and in the health issues of women with spinal cord
injury. She has served as principal investigator and
co-investigator on several research grants and currently has several
research projects that are in progress. Dr. Szlachcic has
published numerous abstracts and peer-reviewed journal articles and
holds membership with the Medical Faculty Women Association; American Society of Hypertension;
American Medical Association; International Society for Holter &
Non-invasive Electrocardiography; American Federation for Clinical
Research; and the Hypertension Council of the American Heart
Association.
She started at Rancho Los Amigos in 1995 and in addition to
serving as Chief of Cardiology, she is an active member of the
Clinical Pathway Development Committee, Chair of the Credentials
Committee, Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, and
Medical Director of the Diagnostics Laboratory. She earned her
medical degree from Warsaw Medical School and completed her
residency training at University Hospital in Warsaw, Poland.
She completed fellowships in Cardiology at the Cardiovascular
Research Institute in San Francisco, California and the Montreal
Heart Institute in Montreal, Canada. She also completed a fellowship
in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of California at San
Francisco.
Dr. Szlachcic is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and
Cardiology.
E-Mail: yszlachcic@rancho.org
Telephone: (562) 401-7611
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