A. Thomas McRae III, MD

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^{A. Thomas McRae III, MD}

Dr. A. Thomas McRae, III, MD, FACC is a native of Valdosta, Georgia. After graduating from Emory University, he attended Mercer University School of Medicine where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the recipient of the Physician's Physician Award. He subsequently served a Residency in Internal Medicine at the Barnes Hospital Medicine Service at Washington University Medical Center where he was honored with the Best Teaching Resident Award. He later completed a clinical cardiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. He served as Chief Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic from 2000 until 2002, at which time he pursued further cardiology advanced training in heart failure management and cardiac transplantation. During his tenure at the Cleveland Clinic, he was honored with the Clinical Cardiology Research Award. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subspecialty board of Cardiovascular Diseases. Dr. McRae is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Dr. McRae's major focus in clinical cardiology has been the treatment of advanced heart failure and heart transplantation. He also has expertise in cardiac imaging, in particular noninvasive techniques including transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. He participated in a number of research projects at the Cleveland Clinic.