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Dr. Frank Politzer joined Berks
Cardiologists, Ltd. in 1988. He is Board
Certified in Internal Medicine,
Cardiovascular Diseases, and
Interventional Cardiology.
His sub-specialties include:
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Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization and
coronary angiography
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Interventional Cardiology (Coronary artery
angioplasty and stenting)
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Cardiac Ultrasound, including:
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Transesophageal echocardiography
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Stress echocardiography
·
Neonatal and Pediatric echocardiography
·
Echocardiography in Congenital Heart
Disease
Dr. Politzer was raised in Forrest
Hills, Queens,
NY, and earned his undergraduate degree
in physics at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA. He later received his
medical degree at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. His postgraduate
training included Internal Medicine
Internship and Residency at Bellevue
Hospital and New York University Medical
Center, New York, NY where he also
completed his
Fellowship in Cardiology. He later
completed an additional Fellowship in
Invasive Interventional Cardiology at
Westchester County Medical Center,
Valhalla, NY.
"Two
factors brought me to the practice of
cardiology: a love of science and
physics, and my own father’s untimely
death of a heart attack at a time when
current techniques of cardiac
catheterization and coronary artery
angioplasty and stenting were not yet
available. To honor his memory, I devote
my professional career to helping those
with heart disease—to diagnosing and
treating their coronary artery blockages
aggressively and hopefully, to help my
patients prevent heart attacks and
death.
I love the diversity of
the practice of cardiology, including
taking care of patients in both hospital
and office settings, the many imaging
techniques that allow us to completely
evaluate a patient’s heart problem and
the catheter-based interventions that
allow us to actually fix patient’s
coronary arteries with a simple needle
puncture, as if by stealth, without the
need for cutting a patient’s chest
open.
All of us need to heed the words
of the late Mickey Mantle: 'If I knew I
was going to live this long, I'd have
taken better care of myself.'
Fortunately, even when you haven’t quite
taken care of your heart the way you
should have, we cardiologists can help
you get on track to a heart-healthy
lifestyle, open up your blocked arteries
when needed, and add quality and years
to your life, no matter what your age. "
Dr. Politzer's current hospital affiliations
include:
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St. Joseph Medical Center, Reading, PA
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The Reading Hospital and Medical Center,
Reading, PA
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HealthSouth Reading Rehabilitation Hospital,
Reading, PA
Professional Organizations:
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Fellow, American College of Cardiology
·
American Society of
Echocardiography
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American Heart Association
·
American Medical Association
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Berks County Medical Society
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Pennsylvania Medical Society
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Alpha Omega Alpha Medical School Honor
Society
Dr.
Politzer
and his fiancé have a blended family of 3
children, 2 dogs and 4 cats. His hobbies include
skiing, SCUBA diving, sailing, hiking,
computer programming, foreign languages
(with fluency in Spanish and German), travel
(especially to go skiing, SCUBA diving or to
foreign countries), cooking (especially
highly spiced, flavorful ethnic cuisine) and
genealogy. |
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