Alberto Chavira

Dr. Alberto Chavira is a board-certified, accomplished cardiologist with more than 40 years of medical experience. 20 of those years he practiced interventional cardiology (treating patients in shock, performing angioplasties, inserting pacemakers, etc.). He now practices outpatient cardiology in San Marcos, California. Dr. Chavira graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois. He then trained as a primary care physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After 8 years of being a primary care physician, he returned to complete his internal medicine residency at Texas Tech University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, and a cardiology fellowship at Kaiser Sunset Medical Center in Los Angeles. Kaiser Sunset Hospital is a 700-bed tertiary care center where the most advanced treatment of cardiac disease is provided. Prior to becoming board-certified in internal medicine cardiology, Dr. Chavira was the medical director of a large network of community clinics, first in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then in El Paso, Texas. It was in this setting that Dr. Chavira developed his strong commitment to not only treat diseases, but also to provide preventive care and to help patients improve overall health. It was in that setting that Dr. Chavira established a "Medicos del Pueblo," a medical corporation to recruit and employ physicians to work in the clinics he supervised. Dr...