Angel Lopez-candales MD, FACC, FASE

Angel López-Candales, M.D., has joined the Department of Internal Medicine as a Professor and non-invasive cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology. Dr. López-Candales received his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Rio Piedras Campus, in 1986. He completed his internship and internal medicine residency at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He continued his training with research and clinical fellowships in cardiology at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis and Washington University School of Medicine, where he went on to serve as an Instructor and then Assistant Professor.

Dr. López-Candales was recruited to the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996. He directed the Coronary Care Unit at Buffalo General Hospital from 1996 to 2001 and directed the Outpatient Inotrope Infusion Unit from 1997 to 2001. Dr. López-Candales held numerous cardiology leadership positions while on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001-2011 and the University of Cincinnati in 2011-2014. He was recruited to the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, in 2014, and served in multiple leadership positions, including Chief of the Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Program Director of the Cardiology Training Program, Internal Medicine Residency Research Faculty Coordinator, and Vice Chair of Research, before his recruitment to UAMS.