Javed Butler, M.D.

Specialties:
Cardiology (Board certified since 1998)
Nuclear Cardiology (Board certified since 2006)
Transplantation
Internal Medicine (Board certified since 1995)

Areas of Clinical Interest:
cardiac transplant
cardiopulmonary transplantatio
CT scan
heart failure/heart transplant

Office(s) Locations:
Emory University Hospital Midtown
550 Peachtree St
Atlanta, GA 30308
(404) 686-7885

Additional Spoken Language(s):
Urdu

About Dr. Butler
Dr. Butler is also the Deputy Chief Science Advisor at the American Heart Association. 

Year Started Practicing: 1997

Year Started Practicing at Emory: 2006

Organizational Leadership Memberships:
American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association
Heart Failure Society of America
International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Major or Recent Publications:

Georgiopoulou VV, Kalogeropoulos AP, Butler J. Dilemmas of Blood Pressure Management for Heart Failure Prevention. Circulation Heart Failure 2011 1;4(4):528-33

Giamouzis G, Butler J, Triposkiadis F. Renal Dysfunction in Advanced Heart Failure. Congestive Heart Failure 2011;17(4):180-8

Butler J, Kalogeropoulos AP, Georgiopoulou VV, Bibbins-Domingo K, Najjar S, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Harris T, Kritchevsky SB, Lloyd-Jones DM, Newman AB, Psaty BM Systolic Blood Pressure and Incident Heart Failure in the Elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study & the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. Heart2011;97(16):1304-11

Awards:
Top Doctors in Atlanta: Cardiovascular Diseases – Atlanta Magazine 2009, 2010, 2011
Atlanta Magazine

Time Feeling and Focus Award, 2010
American Heart Association

Best Doctors in America, 2005-2010

Education:
Medical School
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Internship
Yale University Affiliated Hospital

Residency
Yale University Affiliated Hospital

Fellowship
Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN