Clifton Watt, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

My clinical interests include general cardiology and cardiac imaging. I treat patients across a wide spectrum of cardiovascular diseases, from prevention to advanced disease. My interests in cardiac imaging include echocardiography, cardiac CT, vascular ultrasound, and nuclear cardiology.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship General Internal Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
• Residency Internal Medicine Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California
• BS Computer Systems Engineering Stanford University
• Fellowship Cardiology University of California at Davis
• MD Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago

Publications (5)

Top publication keywords:
DNA, ComplementaryGene Regulatory NetworksHeart FailureImmune SystemConserved SequenceCoronary Artery DiseaseDatabases, GeneticMyocardial IschemiaNucleic Acid HybridizationFetusHeartOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisSystems BiologyCardiomegalyGene Expression Regulation, Developmental

• Clinical Improvement With Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Tricuspid Repair Irrespective of Right Atrial Pressure.
  JACC. Advances 2024 Ya'Qoub L, Caughron H, Qasim A, Tolstrop K, Delling FN, Watt C, Nguyen T, Deuse T, Beygui RE, Mahadevan VS
• Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair for Left Atrioventricular Valve Cleft After Previously Repaired Complete Atrioventricular Canal Defect in Down Syndrome.
  CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2022 Mital R, Ramakrishna S, Judson GL, Watt C, Tolstrup K, Mahadevan VS
• Marked elevation of B-type natriuretic peptide in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.
  Journal of biomedical research 2014 Tate S, Griem A, Durbin-Johnson B, Watt C, Schaefer S
• Gene coexpression network topology of cardiac development, hypertrophy, and failure.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics 2010 Dewey FE, Perez MV, Wheeler MT, Watt C, Spin J, Langfelder P, Horvath S, Hannenhalli S, Cappola TP, Ashley EA
• Pathway analysis of coronary atherosclerosis.
  Physiological genomics 2005 King JY, Ferrara R, Tabibiazar R, Spin JM, Chen MM, Kuchinsky A, Vailaya A, Kincaid R, Tsalenko A, Deng DX, Connolly A, Zhang P, Yang E, Watt C, Yakhini Z, Ben-Dor A, Adler A, Bruhn L, Tsao P, …