Ngoc L Thai, MD, PhD

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure, Dr. Alpert provides care and treatment to people with pulmonary hypertension and heart failure, including cardiac transplantation and mechanical support, such as left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). He completed additional training in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation as well as in adult echocardiography. A Pittsburgh native, Dr. Alpert earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and completed his internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed both his general cardiology fellowship and subspecialty training in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, where he also served as chief fellow. During his training, Dr. Alpert authored more than 20 abstracts and publications with a particular focus on symptom burden in heart failure. He organized two education-themed national meetings for the American College of Cardiology (ACC), was the principal investigator for a grant from the University of Michigan’s Department of Graduate Medical Education, and served as a consultant for the ACC’s Advance Care Planning smartphone app. Dr. Alpert is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is also a member of the Heart Failure Society of America and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Dr. Alpert has medical privileges at Allegheny General, Forbes, and West Penn hospitals.

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Elisa C Taffe, MD, CWSP Dr. Elisa Taffe is the medical director of the Advanced Wound Healing at AHN Allegheny General Hospital. She collaborates with various subspecialists as needed to treat patients with complex wounds. Dr. Taffe is skilled at providing patients with advanced wound therapies including skin substitutes. She is a Certified Wound Specialist Physician (CWSP) and has a certification in vascular medicine and is recognized as a Fellow within the Society of Vascular Medicine She received a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She served as the medical director for the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program at the Community College of Allegheny County and is also an assistant professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. She speaks English.