Dr Stanisław Skałuba

Dr Stanisław Skałuba is an interventional and advanced heart failure cardiologist at Midwest Cardiovascular Institute in Naperville, IL, USA.

Dr. Skałuba earned his Doctor of Medicine at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków, Poland. He completed Fellowship in Clinical Cardiology and Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure/Heart Transplant at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also completed Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, Texas.

During his early cardiology training in the United States, his research on cardiac tissue Doppler was awarded second place at the nation-wide AstraZeneca Cardiovascular Young Investigators’ Forum in Savannah, Georgia in 2003.

He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology. He is the medical director of Advanced Heart Failure at the Midwest Cardiovascular Institute. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a member of the Heart Failure Society of America, the American Heart Association, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and the Polish-American Medical Society.

His work is focused on a strong clinical practice in Advanced Heart Failure and Interventional Cardiology with involvement in clinical research.

In 2008, he was the first in the Chicago area to implant a CardioMEMS device for remote monitoring of pulmonary artery pressure in heart failure patients, as part of the original CHAMPION Heart Failure clinical trial.

Dr. Skałuba has a particular interest and expertise in advanced heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, CardioMEMS, hemodynamics of short-term percutaneous mechanical circulatory assist devices and interventional cardiology. He has also served as an investigator for more than 20 research trials and has contributed to numerous publications and abstracts.