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About Ruben J Acherman, MD
Biography
Dr. Acherman, a native of Colombia, obtained his MD from the Universidad del Valle in Cali. He completed his Pediatric Residency and a Neonatology Fellowship at LA County USC Hospital. Dr. Acherman next completed a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Before joining the Children’s Heart Center in March 2002, Dr. Acherman spent eight years on the faculty of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where he served as the Director of Fetal Cardiology. Dr. Ach
Care Philosophy
Continuous care for the fetus, child & adult with congenital heart disease
Procedures and Conditions Treated
- Acute & Subacute Endocarditis
- Acute Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Cardiac Arrest - Unexplained
- Cardiac Congential & Valvular Disorders
- Cardiac Monitoring
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardiac ultrasound
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Chronic Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Circulatory Signs And Symptoms
- Echocardiogram
- Echos
- EKG
- Electrocardiogram
- Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)
- Electrocardiogram Monitoring
- Electronic Evaluation Of Cardiac Event Recorder
- Endocarditis And Endocardial Disease
- Essential Hypertension
- Event Monitors
- Fainting
- Heart Failure
- Heart monitoring
- Heart muscle inflammation and disease
- Heart Screening And Imaging
- High Blood Pressure
- Holter Monitors
- Hypertension
- Hypertension With Complications And Secondary Hypertension
- Myocarditis And Cardiomyopathy
- Nonrheumatic And Unspecified Valve Disorders
- Other And Ill-Defined Heart Disease
- Other Circulatory System Diagnosis
- Other Medical Cardiology Diagnostic
- Other Medical Cardiology Procedure
- Other Non-Invasive Cardiac Study
- Pericarditis (or Inflammation of the Heart Membrane)
- Pericarditis And Pericardial Disease
- Pulmonary Heart Disease
- Stress TTE
- Syncope
- Transthoracic Echocardiography
- Tte (Transthoracic Echo)
- Ultrasound
Specialties
- Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease - Board Certified
Affiliations
- Sunrise Children's Hospital
- Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center
- Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center
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Credentials and Education
Universidad del Valle
Undergraduate Degree
1971
Universidad del Valle
Internship
1990
Universidad del Valle
Residency
1981
Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center
Internship
1990
Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center
Residency
1991
Children's Hospital - Los Angeles
Fellowship
1994
Hospital for Sick Children
Fellowship
1993
Universidad del Valle
Graduate Degree
1976