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UPMC NORTHWEST CARDIOLOGIST EARNS BOARD CERTIFICATION

		Dr. Nat Sricharoen, MD

March 13, 2006 — Medical/interventional cardiologist Nattapong Sricharoen, MD, has earned board certification in interventional cardiology from the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Nat is UPMC Northwest’s first interventional cardiologist, and the first doctor to perform cardiac catheterizations in the hospital’s new Cardiac Catheterization Unit.

He also is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology. Board certification is indicative of advanced credentials in a physician’s specialty.

Dr. Nat graduated from medical school is his native Thailand and has completed extensive medical education in the U.S., including a residency in internal medicine at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, a cardiology fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

He joined the UPMC Northwest medical staff in September in conjunction with the opening of the hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Unit.

Both Dr. Nat’s practice and UPMC Northwest’s Cardiac Catheterization Unit are part of the UPMC Cardiovascular Institute at UPMC Northwest. The institute makes UPMC Northwest part of UPMC’s cardiac care program that is recognized nationally and internationally as a center of cardiac diagnostic, treatment and research excellence.