Richard G. Bach, MD, FACC
Current Position
Associate Professor, Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Specialty Areas
Cardiovascular Disease
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiac Catheterization
Patients Seen At
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Barnes-Jewish Hospital ( south )
Cardiac Catheterization/ Intervention Service
One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza
St. Louis,
MO
63110
314-362-2284
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Mailing Address
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Washington University School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division
660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8086
St Louis,
MO
63110
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Areas of Clinical Interest
Interventional cardiology, coronary angioplasty, atherectomy and stenting, valvuloplasty, peripheral intervention, percutaneous atrial septal defect closure, transcoronary alcohol septal ablation for HCM,
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with obstruction, coronary ultrasonographic and physiologic assessment, cardiac critical care
Board Certification
Interventional Cardiology
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Certified
Cardiovascular Disease
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Certified
Internal Medicine
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Certified
Patients must be referred by a physician.
Medical Education
B.S.: Biological Sciences, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
, 1977
Medical Degree: New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
, 1984
Residency: Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
, 1987
Fellowship: Research, Cardiology, New York University Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York
, 1988
Fellowship: Clinical, Cardiology, New York University Medical Center Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York
, 1990
Fellowship: Cardiac Catheterization and Angioplasty, NYU Medical Center Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York
, 1991
Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2006, 2008 (Best Doctors, Inc)
Osler Award for Outstanding Teaching, Awarded by the Graduating
Residents St. Louis University Department of Internal Medicine, 1999
Teacher of the Year Award, Awarded by the Fellowship Trainees, St. Louis University Division of Cardiology, 1998
Osler Award for Outstanding Teaching, Awarded by the Graduating
Residents, St. Louis University Department of Internal Medicine, 1996
Alpha Omega Alpha, NYU School of Medicine, 1983
Selected Publications
The Strategies for Patency Enhancement in the Emergency Department
(SPEED) Group. Trial of Abciximab With and Without Low-dose Reteplase
for Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circulation 2000, In Press
Bach RG. Heterogeneity of response to lipid-lowering therapy. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001; Dec;38(7):2136-7
Brooks MM, Jones RH, Bach RG, Chaitman BR, Kern MJ, Orszulak TA,
Follmann D, Sopko G, Blackstone EH, Califf RM. Predictors of mortality
and mortality from cardiac causes in the bypass angioplasty
revascularization investigation (BARI) randomized trial and registry.
For the BARI Investigators. Circulation 2000; Jun 13;101(23):2682-9
Eisenhauer MD, Bach RG, Brunts J, Kern MJ. Hemodynamic rounds series
III: hemodynamics of the human left atrial appendage. Catheter
Cardiovasc Interv 2000; Jun;50(2):238-44
Wolford TL, Donohue TJ, Bach RG, Drury JH, Caracciolo EA, Kern MJ,
Miller LW. Heterogeneity of coronary flow reserve in the examination of
multiple individual allograft coronary arteries.
Circulation 1999; Feb 9;99(5):626-32
Kern MJ, Rajjoub H, Bach RG. Hemodynamic effects of alcohol-induced
septal infarction for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Cathet
Cardiovasc Interventions 1999; 47:221-228
Kern MJ, Puri S, Bach RG, Donohue TJ, Dupouy P, Caracciolo EA, Craig
WR, Aguirre F, Aptecar E, Wolford TL, Mechem CJ, Dubois-Rande JL.
Abnormal coronary flow velocity reserve after coronary artery stenting
in patients-role of relative coronary reserve to assess potential
mechanisms. Circulation 1999; 100:2491-2498
Kern MJ, Aguirre FV, Caracciolo EA, Bach RG, Donohue TJ, Losordo D,
Ohman EM, Schnitzler RN, King DL, Ohley WJ, Grayzel J. Hemodynamic
effects of new intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation timing methods in
patients: a multicenter evaluation. Am Heart J 1999; 137(6):1129-36
Detre KM, Guo P, Holubkov R, Califf RM, Sopko G, Bach RG, Brooks MM,
Bourassa MG, Shemin RJ, Rosen AD, Krone RJ, Frye RL, Feit F. Coronary
revascularization in diabetic patients. Circulation 1999; 99:633-640
Book Chapters and Editorials
Kern MJ, Bach RG. Coronary Doppler flow velocity. In: Pepine C,
Winniford M(eds): "Blood Flow Measurement and Quantification of
Vascular Stenoses". William & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1998
Bach RG. "Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly," in Kaiser FE,
Morley JE, Coe RM (eds): Cardiovascular Disease in Older Persons,
Springer Publishing Co, New York, 1997, pp 32-52
Bach RG. "Functional Angiometry," in Uretsky BF (ed): Diagnostic
Cardiac Catheterization, Blackwell Science, Inc. Cambridge MA, 1997
Bach RG, Kern MJ. "Practical Coronary Physiology: Clinical Applications
of the Flow Velocity Guidewire," in Davidson, CJ (ed): Cardiology
Clinics: Intravascular Imaging and Doppler, W.B. Saunders, Volume 15,
Number 1, February, 1997, pp 79-99
For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. Richard G. Bach