Department of Medicine

Cardiovascular Medicine Faculty

Juan M. Aranda, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.C. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Professor of Medicine Director, Heart Transplant Program Director, Heart Failure Fellowship Program Medical Director, Shands Cardiac Care Unit and 54 Intermediate Bed Care e-mail: arandjm@medicine.ufl.edu 1600 SW Archer Road/Box 100277 Gainesville, FL 32610-0277 352/273-9078 (phone) 352/273-8889 (fax) For heart transplant referrals and clinic appointments, please call 352/265-0751

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Academic Interests:

Dr. Aranda’s research interests include the use of cardiac devices heart failure and heart transplantation. He is principal investigator of the Paracor Ventricular Support Device trial and the Chronicle AICD Heart Failure Trial. Since his appointment at the University of Florida in 1997, Dr. Aranda has published numerous articles in the areas of heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He has been named to Best Doctors in America 2002 and 2005, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare 2002-2003, and he is currently very active in providing service in the treatment of advanced heart failure in the state of Florida.

Clinical Interests:

Cardiac Catheterization; Heart Failure; Heart Transplant; Device Therapy in Heart Failure

Representative Publications:

• Gregory W. Woo, Richard S. Schofield, Charles T. Klodell, Daniel F. Pauly, James A. Hill, Juan M. Aranda Jr. Atrial Fibrillation as a Cause of Left Ventricular Dysfunction after Cardiac Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:131-133.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., Ernest Mazzeferi, Karen Smith, Richard Schofield, James A. Hill, Jay Fricker. Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis 10 Years After Cardiac Transplant: To Bypass or Not to Bypass. J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;81:1191-1195.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., Gregory W. Woo, Richard S. Schofield, Eileen M. Handberg, James A. Hill, Anne B. Curtis, Samuel F. Sears, J. Sean Goff, Daniel F. Pauly, Jamie B. Conti. Management of Heart Failure After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Integrating Advanced Heart Failure Treatment with Optimal Device Function. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;46:2193-2198.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., MD, Gregory W. Woo, MD, Jamie B. Conti, MD, Richard S. Schofield, MD, C. Richard Conti, MD, James A. Hill, MD. Use of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy to Optimize Beta-Blocker Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure and Prolonged QRS Duration. Am J Cardiol 2005;95:889-891.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., Jamie B. Conti, James W. Johnson, Susan Petersen-Stejskal, Anne B. Curtis. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure and Conduction Abnormalities Other than Left Bundle Branch Block: Analysis of the Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE). Clin Cardiol 2004;27:678-682.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., Juan C. Scornik, Sigurd J. Normann, Richard Lottenberg, Richard S. Schofield, Daniel F. Pauly, Maureen Miles, James A. Hill, John W. Sleasman, and Suzanne Skoda-Smith. Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody (Rituximab) Therapy for Acute Cardiac Humoral Rejection: A Case Report, Transplantation, 2002;73:907-910.
• Juan M. Aranda, Jr., Richard S. Schofield, Dana Leach, Jamie B. Conti, James A. Hill, Anne B. Curtis. Ventricular Dyssynchrony in Dilated Cardiomyopathy: The Role of Biventricular Pacing in the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure. Clin Cardiol 2002;25:357-362.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., MD, Daniel F. Pauly, MD, Richard A. Kerensky, MD, Timothy S. Cleeton, ARNP, Tracy C. Walker, ARNP, Richard S. Schofield, MD, Dana Leach, RN, Lang Lin, MD, V. Stephen Monroe, MD, Rafael E. Calderon, MD, James A. Hill, MD. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Medical Therapy for Coronary Allograft Vasculopathy: One Center’s Experience. J Heart Lung Transplant, 2002;21:860-866.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., MD, Eric R. Carlson, MD, Daniel F. Pauly, MD, Anne B. Curtis, MD, C. Richard Conti, MD, Mario Ariet, MD, James A. Hill, MD. QRS Duration Variability in Patients with Heart Failure. Am J Cardiol 2002;90:335-337.
• Juan M. Aranda, Jr., MD, Heidi J. Krause-Steinrauf, MS, Barry H. Greenberg, MD, Ming K. Heng, MD, Peter K. Kosolcharoen, MD, Dale G. Renlund, MD, Surai Thaneemit-Chen, MS, Michel White, MD, Guillermo B. Cintron, MD for the BEST investigators. Comparison of the Beta Blocker Bucindolol in Younger Versus Older Patients with Heart Failure. Am J Cardiol 2002;89:1322-1326.
• Juan M. Aranda Jr., MD, J. Hill, MD, MS. Cardiac Transplant Vasculopathy. Chest 2000;118:1792-1800.

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