Why trust your heart to anyone else?

Texas Heart Institute (THI) at CHI St. Luke’s Health-Baylor St. Luke’s offers a full range of specialty heart programs through our clinical partnership with CHI St. Luke’s Health. Led by THI president emeritus and cardiologist James T. Willerson, the Institute's expert heart doctors are leaders in their fields with more experience and procedures performed than at any other institution.

Patients and their families benefit from our world-class excellence in improving patient care, education (Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is a leading teaching hospital), and research (world leaders in developing heart disease treatments with medical management, interventional cardiology, minimally invasive surgery, transplantation, mechanical assist devices, artificial hearts, stem cells, gene therapy and regenerative medicine). With these resources, our specialists work together as a team, providing the latest technology and treatment options available.

Our Heart Failure Treatment Program includes Transplant and Heart Assist Device (VAD or Ventricular Assist Device) Programs which are world famous for treating heart failure. More heart transplants and assist device (like the Heartmate II developed at THI) procedures have been performed here than at any other medical center or hospital in the world. 

Experience Counts in Heart Failure Management

Meet our heart failure experts

O.H. Frazier, MD
Director of Cardiovascular Surgery Research at the Texas Heart Institute,
Professor of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Tenured professor, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston

 

William E. Cohn, MD
Professor of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Houston

 

Deborah Ellen Meyers, MD
Medical Director, Heart Failure Programs,
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Medical Director, Heart Failure Clinic at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center

 

 

Andrew B. Civitello, MD
Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program,
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center  

 

 

 

Reynolds M. Delgado, III, MD
Medical Director, Mechanical Assist Devices in Heart Failure,
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center

 

How to find us on StLukesHouston.com:

Heart failure treatment information:

HEART FAILURE PROGRAM 832-355-3961

LVAD PROGRAM 832-355-2285, toll free at 877-685-0361

HEART TRANSPLANT PROGRAM 832-355-2285, International: 832-355-3350

Full range of heart conditions treatment:

HEART AND CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENT CARE SERVICES

FIND A DOCTOR  or call 832-355-DOCS (3627)

PATIENT CENTER 832-355-1000
Admissions, insurance information, directions, billing questions, and other patient services.

EMERGENCY ROOM LOCATOR 
If you are experiencing chest pain or what feels like a life threatening emergency, call 911 now.

INTERNATIONAL PATIENT CENTER 832-355-3350, international@stlukeshealth.org
Everything from travel assistance to comprehensive patient care. 

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES at our Heart Information Center. Ask a Texas Heart Institute Doctor and more than 170 heart-health topics.