Jonathan M. Tobis, M.D., MSCAI
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles,
CA
USA
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Tobis was a leader in developing digital angiography and he performed the first digital coronary angiograms in the world. This work helped transform the cardiac catheterization laboratory from film based to a completely digital environment.
He helped to develop one of the first mechanically rotating intravascular ultrasound imaging devices, which aids our understanding of coronary pathophysiology and the mechanism of multiple devices used in interventional cardiology. In collaboration with Antonio Colombo, Dr. Tobis used IVUS technology to explain the high incidence of subacute thrombosis during the early experience with intracoronary stents. This helped to decrease subacute stent thrombosis and permitted a dramatic increase in the use of coronary stents. He is the coauthor with Paul Yock of the textbook, "Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging" and with Antonio Colombo for "Techniques in Coronary Artery Stenting". His recent work is in understanding PFO in relation to cryptogenic stroke, migraine headache, and orthodeoxia.
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