Download Dr. Nicholas DePace’s Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Dr. DePace is a lifetime resident of New Jersey. He was born in Newark, NJ and attended Setion Hall University as an undergraduate. He graduated the prestigious Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1978 receiving his MD degree. Doctor Depace came to Philadelphia in 1979 and did his internal medicine residency at Hahnemann University. He was chief medical resident in 1981 and completed his cardiovascular training at the Likoff Cardiovascular Institute in 1983. Dr. Depace has obtained 5 board certifications. He is married with one child, Nicholas Jr., who graduated the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor DePace is a prolific publisher and clinical researcher early in his career. He has published leading articles on aortic and mitral valve disease. He has also published extensively in noninvasive cardiology, specifically echocardiology and nuclear cardiology. His national book, The Heart Repair Manual, The Philadelphia FormulaFor Prevention and Reversal of Heart Disease by W.W. Norton, NY, NY has been widely distributed. Doctor DePace obtained the rank of full clinical professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania at the age of 33, the youngest full professor at that time in Philadelphia. He currently does faculty teaching at Hahnemann University.
PRE MEDICAL EDUCATION
- NUTLEYHIGH SCHOOL, NUTLEY NEW JERSEY
- GRADUATED 1971
- 800 MATH LEVEL II SCHOLASTIC TEST
UNIVERSITY
- SETONHALL UNIVERSITY , SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY
- MAJORED IN CHEMISTRY (HONORS PROGRAM)
- MINORED IN MATHEMATICS
- RECEIVED BS RETROACTIVE WITH MEDICAL SCHOOL CREDITS (SEPT 1971-JUNE 1974)
POST GRADUATE TRAINING
- NEW JERSEY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY ( JULY 1974- JUNE 1976)
- MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL SCHOOL , NEW YORK, NEW YORK (JULY 1976- JUNE 1978)
- INTERNSHIP – INTERNAL MEDICINEOVERLOOKHOSPITAL, SUMMIT, NEW JERSEYAND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK (JULY 1978- JUNE 1979)
- RESIDENCY – INTERNAL MEDICINE, HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, PHILADELPHIA, PA (JULY 1979- JUNE 1981)
- CHIEF, MEDICAL RESIDENT (JULY 1980- JUNE 1981)
- FELLOWSHIP – LIKOFF CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE, HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, PHILADELPHIA, PA (JULY 1981- JUNE 1983)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- SELF JULY 1983- DECEMBER 1996
- JEFFERSON HEART CENTER JANUARY 1997–DECEMBER 2006
- MEDICAL DIRECTOR JEFFERSON HEART , CENTER SOUTH
- 2007-PRESENT PRIVATE PRACTICE, SEWELL , N.J. PHILADELPHIA 2009 TO PRESENT
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
- ASSOCIATE CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY (INACTIVE) HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY
- ASSOCIATE CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY AT HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL (2009-PRESENT)
- CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL (2007 TO PRESENT)
- CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY COOPER HOSPITAL CENTER CITY DIVISION (1993)
- DIRECTOR HEART REPAIR PHILADELPHIA HEART INSTITUTE RESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL (1994-1995)
- CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE MEDICALCOLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA (1987- 1996)
- CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY (1997-2006)
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
- BOARD CERTIFIED INTERNAL MEDICINE 1982 (ABIM)
- BOARD CERTIFIED-CARDIOLOGY 1984 (ABIM)
- BOARD CERTIFIED –ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY 2005, 2015 (ASE)
- DIPLOMATE, AMERICAN BOARD LIPIDOLOGY 2008 (ABL)
- NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY 2008 (ABNC)
LICENSES
- NEW JERSEY LICENSE NO: MA-36273
- PENNSYLVANIA LICENSE NO: MD-023597-E
- DEA NO. AD 8794352
- NEW JERSEY DEA NO. D 27496
- CDS NO. BD2693326.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA 2007.2008,2009
- REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (PRESIDENT BUSH)
- ITALIAN AMERICAN MAN OF YEAR 2004
- ESSEXCOUNTY, NUTLEY, N.J. HALL OF FAME 2005
- BEST OF SOUTH JERSEY /SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE 2007,2008, 2009,2010,2013,2014
- BEST OF SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE 2011- PHYSICIAN FOR WOMEN
- TOP DOCTORS,PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE 2014, 2015
- JERSEY’S BEST TOP DOCTORS-THE STAR LEDGER 2015
- 2012 MOST COMPASSIONATE DOCTOR-VITALS
- BEST OF COURIER POST 1996,1998, 2008, 2009
MEMBERSHIPS AND OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- EDITORIAL BOARD: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY 1997-2006
- FELLOW OF AMERICANCOLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
- FELLOW OF AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS
- PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS CAMDEN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY, N.J.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
- SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS – LITTLE FLOWER HIGH SCHOOL BENEFACTOR
- SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS – ST. MONICA SCHOOL BENEFACTOR
- SCIENCE LIBRARY – LITTLE FLOWER HIGH SCHOOL BENEFACTOR
- SOUTH AMERICAN BRAILIAN FUNDS FOR FOOD RELIEF
HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
- HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA, PA
- JF KENNEDY HOSPITAL, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, STRATFORD & CHERRY HILL NEW JERSEY
- OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITALS CAMDEN AND BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY
INTERNATIONAL LECTURES
- TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND INTRACARDIAC ULTRASOUND IN CARDIOVASCULAR DIAGNOSIS AND RESEARCH. MAY 18-20, 1995, SHANGHAI XU HUI DISTRICT MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, SHANGHAI, CHINA.
- STATE OF THE ART TREATMENT OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAIURE DARSALAN, TANZANIA AFRICA 2002
DOMESTIC LECTURES
GRAND ROUNDS AT VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS 1987 TO PRESENT ON TOPICS OF:
- CORONARY REGRESSION-CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
- VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
- AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION
- HEART FAILURE
- DYSLIPIDEMIA
- HYPERTENSION
TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS
- DEPACE NL; MAJOR D. MENINGOCCAL GROUP Y INFECTIONS IN MAJOR D. ED. PROBLEMS OF THE MEDICALLY ILL. GRUNE AND STRATTON 1981; 177-81.
- DEPACE NL; MAJOR D. SJOGRENS SYNDROME IN MAJOR D. ED., PROBLEM OF THE MEDICALLY ILL. FRUNE AND STRATTON 1981, 134-96.
- NESTICO PF; DEPACE NL; MORGANROTH J. THERAPY WITH CONVENTIONAL ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS FOR VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS. MEDICAL CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA 1984 SEPTEMBER; 68 (5): 1295-319.
- NESTICO PF: DEPACE NJ: MORGANROTH J. VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS, CLINICAL RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT. CARDIOLOGY CLINICS 2: NO. 2, 1984 MAY: 173-182.
- DEPACE NL; DOWINSKY S.K. PREVENTION OF FURTHER ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT PATIENT. CARDIAC AND NON CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS OF OPEN HEART SURGERY: PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT. KOTLER MJ; ALFIERI A. FUTURA PUBLISHERS. CHAPTER 14. PAGES 351-399.
- DEPACE NL; MERLI, G.J.; COSTELLO, C; ANTICOAGULATION IN PATIENTS WITH MECHANICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROSTETIC HEART VALVESMANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION OF THROMBOSIS IN PRIMARY CARE; SPANDAREF J, KONKLE, BA, MERLI, G.J, ARNOLD PUBLISHERS, OXFORD PRESS, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 2001 (19) 284-297.
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