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About Judy Hung, MD
I am a cardiologist with a special interest in valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease and optimizing noninvasive cardiac imaging techniques to improve diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Coronary artery disease
- Valvular heart disease
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Medical Education
- MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Residency, San Diego Medical Center
- Fellowship, Boston Children's Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Cardiovascular Disease, 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 NY
- 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.
Research
My research involves understanding mechanisms of valvular heart disease and development of novel therapies to treat valve disease.
Publications
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Hung J. The Pathogenesis of functional Tricuspid Regurgitation. Semin thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010; 22(1):76-78.
Yared K, Baggish A, Hoffmann U, Picard M., and Hung J. Multimodality Imaging of Pericardial Disease. J.
Solis J, McCarty D, Levine RA, Handschumacher MD, Fernandez-Friera L, Chen-Tournoux A, Mont L, Vidal B, Singh JP, Brugada J, Picard MH, Sitges M, Hung J. Mechanism of Decrease in Mitral Regurgitation After Cardiac Resynchronization therapy: Optimization of the Force-Balance Relationship. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging. 2009 Nov; 2(6):444-50.
Baumgartner H, Hung J. et al. Echocardiographic assessment of valvular stenosis. EAE/ASE POSITION PAPER. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2009 Jan;22(1):1-23.