Jia Shen, MD, MPH, FACC
- Cardiologist
- Associate Professor of Medicine
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Jia Shen, MD, MPH, is a board-certified cardiologist specializing in preventive cardiology, serving as the medical director of the UC San Diego Health cardiology clinics at Hillcrest and Bankers Hill locations.
Dr. Shen is passionate about patient education and works closely with patients and health care providers to create a personalized treatment plan that optimizes individual patient goals and quality of life. During clinic visits, Dr. Shen will take the time to explain complex cardiovascular conditions and their management. As a general cardiologist, she diagnoses and treats hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and valvular heart disease. She specializes in dietary and lifestyle interventions to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease.
She teaches preventive cardiology as an associate professor with the San Diego School of Medicine.
Dr. Shen is a master clinician who educates medical students and trainees on providing comprehensive, patient-centered, empathetic and compassionate care. She lectures regionally and nationally on cardiovascular health and has authored for the American College of Cardiology board review.
Dr. Shen is a faculty advisor to the International Health Collective, a non-profit student organization providing medical care and services to underserved patients in the Tijuana-Baja California region. She leads medical mission trips to Baja, Mexico, is passionate about equitable access to care, and works to ensure that patients from all walks of life receive the same high-quality, comprehensive care. She has worked in Mexico, Ethiopia, Tanzania and China.
She earned her medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri. She also holds a master's degree in global public health from Harvard University School of Public Health in Boston.
Dr. Shen is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Heart Association and the American Society of Preventive Cardiology.
She is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and echocardiography.
In addition to English, Dr. Shen is fluent in Mandarin.
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