Padmini Varadarajan, MD, FACC
Accepting New Patients
Board Certified
Telehealth Offered
Specialties
Locations
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UCR Health Multispecialty Center
3390 University Avenue, Suite 100
Riverside, CA 92501
Personal
Languages
English
Patient Philosophy
"Greet my patients with a smile, be on time, and be empathetic and consider them as one of my family members when treating them."
Provider Bio
Padmini Varadarajan, MD is a Cardiology Specialist at the UCR Health Multispecialty Center. Dr. Varadarajan is a Professor of Medicine, and an Academic Cardiologist, board-certified in Internal Medicine, Echocardiography and Adult Congenital Heart Diseases and Cardiac Computed Tomography. She has been a clinical-scholar and a full Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University since 2013. Dr. Varadarajan is the author of 58 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 75 abstracts, six books in Cardiology, and 21 book chapters. She functioned as a mentor for 25 Internal Medicine Residents and Cardiology Residents Fellows in their research and career guidance over the last 12 years. She is a Director of Structural Heart Imaging and a member of the American College of Cardiology Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Personal Highlights
- What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? "Outside of medicine I love to travel to new places. I also love to go hiking, cook for my family, garden, and dance."
Gender
Female
Professional
Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
- National Board of Echocardiography - Echocardiography
- Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography - Cardiac Computed Tomography
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Training / Memberships
- Chair of ACC Diversity and Inclusion committee for Southern CA
- Council of Clinical Cardiology (American Heart Association)
- American College of Cardiology
- American Society of Echocardiography
- Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- International Society of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Publications
- Sex Difference in Patients With Ischemic Heart Failure Undergoing Surgical Revascularization
- Value of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Derived Baseline Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Volumes for Precise Risk Stratification of Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
- Improved Long Term Survival with Beta Blockers after Aortic Valve Replacement: Results from a Cohort of 570 Patients
Accepted Insurances
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- IEHP
- Medi-Cal
- Medi-Care
Education
Medical School
- Gandhi Medical College, Osmania University – Hyderabad, India
Residency
- Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital – Detroit
Fellowship
- Loma Linda University – Adult Cardiology and Advanced Echo Fellow
- USC/Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles – Cardiac MRI Fellow