About Ada Stefanescu, MD
Dr. Stefanescu Schmidt is an Adult Congenital Heart Disease specialist and Interventional Cardiologist. She trained in internal medicine, cardiology and coronary interventions at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in the combined Boston Adult Congenital Heart Disease fellowship program, and at the Harvard School of Public Health (MSc Epidemiology). She then completed subspecialty training in congenital and structural interventions at the Toronto General Hospital and University of Toronto.
Her clinical practice and research focus on interventions to increase quality of life and longevity of adults with congenital and structural heart disease, and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. She leads and participates in several single and multi-center clinical studies including randomized trials. Her expertise has been recognized in invited lectures at national and international conferences, and she was elected a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, and the Pediatric and Congenital Interventional Cardiovascular Society.
Clinical Interests:
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Aortic valve disease
- Atrial septal defects
- Balloon pulmonary angioplasty
- Cardiovascular disease in women
- Catheter-based heart valve repair (MitraClip; TAVI / TAVR)
- Clinical trials, clinical research
- Fellowship education
- Healthy living
- Interventional cardiology
- Ischemic heart disease
- Patient reported measures of health outcomes
- Percutaneous treatment of structural heart disease
- Pulmonary hypertension and cardiac disease
- Transcatheter PFO closure
- Transcatheter treatment of adult congenital heart disease
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- French, German, Romanian
Locations
Mass General Heart Center
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-8052
Fax: 617-726-6800
Medical Education
- MD, McGill University
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine
American Board Certifications
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Interventional Cardiology, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Publications
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