A. Thomas McRae, III, MD, FACC

Dr. McRae is a native of Valdosta, Georgia. After graduating from Emory University, he attended Mercer University School of Medicine where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the recipient of the Physician’s Physician Award. He subsequently served a Residency in Internal Medicine at the Barnes Hospital Medicine Service at Washington University Medical Center where he was honored with the Best Teaching Resident Award. He later completed a clinical cardiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. He served as Chief Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic from 2000 until 2002, at which time he pursued further cardiology advanced training in heart failure management and cardiac transplantation. During his tenure at the Cleveland Clinic, he was honored with the Clinical Cardiology Research Award. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subspecialty board of Cardiovascular Diseases. Dr. McRae is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Dr. McRae’s major focus in clinical cardiology has been the treatment of advanced heart failure and heart transplantation. He also has expertise in cardiac imaging, in particular noninvasive techniques including transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. He participated in a number of research projects at the Cleveland Clinic.

• Undergraduate Education: Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1991
• Medical School: Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA 1996
• Residency:
  Barnes Hospital Medicine Service at Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri 1996-1999
• Fellowship:
  Fellow - Clinical Cardiology / Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 1999-2002
  Chief Cardiology Fellow / Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 2000-2002
  Fellow-Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation / Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 2002-2003
• Specialties:
  Heart Failure & Transplantation
  Surface and Transesophageal Echocardiography
  Mitral & Aortic Valve Disease
  Aortic Diseases, Marfan Syndrome
  Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Certifications:
  American Board of Internal Medicine
  -Cardiovascular Disease 2002
  -Internal Medicine 1999
• Professional Societies:
  American College of Cardiology / International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
• Medical Licensure:
  Tennessee
  Kentucky