Doctor's Bio
Dr. Cassimatis is Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Emory University Hospital Midtown, and divides his clinical time between Midtown and Grady Memorial Hospital. He co-directs the first year medical student cardiovascular pathophysiology module at Emory’s School of Medicine and is one of the school’s small group advisors. Before joining Emory as an assistant professor in 2010, Dr. Cassimatis spent 11 years as a physician in the United States Army. He received his MD from Harvard University and his post-graduate training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: Harvard Medical School
- Residency: Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Fellowships
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Publications
- Low Testosterone in Men with Cardiovascular Disease or Risk Factors: To Treat or Not To Treat?
Cassimatis DC, Crim MT, Wenger NK
Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine. 2016;18(12):75.
PMID: 27807794 - America vs Europe and the 2014 Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome Guidelines.
Cassimatis DC, Wenger NK
Journal of cardiovascular translational research. 2015;8(6):385-91.
PMID: 26159937 - Left ventricular myocardial injury and syncope due to pulmonary embolism in a soldier: normal coronaries and novel pathologic electrocardiogram signs.
Nestico PF, Cassimatis DC, Sheikh F, Huber M, Davison J, Modlin R
Military medicine. 2008;173(7):700-7.
PMID: 18700608 - Association of pulsus paradoxus with obesity in normal volunteers.
Lee JC, Atwood JE, Lee HJ, Cassimatis DC, Devine PJ, Taylor AJ
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2006;47(9):1907-9.
PMID: 16682321 - Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with giant negative T waves.
Cassimatis DC, Atwood JE
Mayo Clinic proceedings. 2005;80(9):1245.
PMID: 16178511 - Venous thromboembolism among United States soldiers deployed to Southwest Asia.
Isenbarger DW, Atwood JE, Scott PT, Bateson T, Coyle LC, Gillespie DL, Pearse LA, Villines TC, Cassimatis DC, Finelli LN, Taylor AJ, Grabenstein JD
Thrombosis research. 2006;117(4):379-83.
PMID: 15882893 - Incidence and follow-up of inflammatory cardiac complications after smallpox vaccination.
Eckart RE, Love SS, Atwood JE, Arness MK, Cassimatis DC, Campbell CL, Boyd SY, Murphy JG, Swerdlow DL, Collins LC, Riddle JR, Tornberg DN, Grabenstein JD, Engler RJ,
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2004;44(1):201-5.
PMID: 15234435 - Smallpox vaccination and myopericarditis: a clinical review.
Cassimatis DC, Atwood JE, Engler RM, Linz PE, Grabenstein JD, Vernalis MN
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2004;43(9):1503-10.
PMID: 15120802 - A 55-year-old mechanically ventilated male requiring aeromedical evacuation.
Argyros G, Cassimatis DC, Argyros G
Military medicine. 2002;167(7):606-9.
PMID: 12125858
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