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Michael P. Flaherty M.D., Ph.D.

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Michael P. Flaherty M.D., Ph.D.





Michael P. Flaherty M.D., Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics
  • Director, Adult Structural Interventional Program
  • Director of Research, Interventional Cardiology Program
University of Louisville Health Care Outpatient Center
401 East Chestnut Street, Ste. 310
Louisville, KY 40202

502-852-7959 - Academic Office
502-813-6500 - Patient Appointments



ULP Medical Cardiovascular Medicine

Clinical Expertise

Heart Failure; Interventional Cardiology; Percutaneous Adult Cardiac Structural Interventions; Stem Cell Therapies for Cardiac Regeneration


Board Certifications

  • American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine / Cardiovascular Disease / Interventional Cardiology


Education and Training

  • Medical School: University of Louisville 

  • Residency: Boston University

  • Fellowship: University of Louisville; Johns Hopkins University


Recent Publications

  • Bartoli CR, McCants KC, Birks EJ, Flaherty MP, Slaughter MS. Percutaneous Closure of a Patent Foramen Ovale to Prevent Paradoxical Thromboembolism in a Patient With a Continuous-Flow LVAD. J Invasive Cardiol. 2013 Mar;25(3):154-6. PubMed PMID: 23468448.

  • Guo Y, Flaherty MP, Wu WJ, Tan W, Zhu X, Li Q, Bolli R. Genetic background, gender, age, body temperature, and arterial blood pH have a major impact on myocardial infarct size in the mouse and need to be carefully measured and/or taken into account: results of a comprehensive analysis of determinants of infarct size in 1,074 mice. Basic Res Cardiol. 2012 Sep;107(5):288. doi: 10.1007/s00395-012-0288-y. Epub 2012 Aug 3. PubMed PMID: 22864681.

  • Sayfo S, Stepp LO, Ganzel B, Slaughter MS, Flaherty MP. Management of recurrent leaks following postinfarction ventricular septal defect repairs. J Card Surg. 2012 Sep;27(5):576-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2012.01493.x. Epub 2012 Aug 13. Review. PubMed PMID: 22882412.

  • Flaherty MP, Kamerzell TJ, Dawn B. Wnt signaling and cardiac differentiation. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2012;111:153-74. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398459-3.00007-1. Review. PubMed PMID: 22917230.

  • Flaherty MP, Johnston PV, Rade JJ. Subacute stent thrombosis owing to complete clopidogrel resistance successfully managed with prasugrel. J Invasive Cardiol. 2011 Jul;23(7):300-4. PubMed PMID: 21725128.

  • Dawn B, Abdel-Latif A, Sanganalmath SK, Flaherty MP, Zuba-Surma EK. Cardiac repair with adult bone marrow-derived cells: the clinical evidence. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2009 Aug;11(8):1865-82. doi: 10.1089/ARS.2009.2462. Review. PubMed PMID: 19203221; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2848520.

  • Flaherty MP, Dawn B, Solankhi NK. Iatrogenic submedial coronary artery intramural hematoma presenting subacutely. J Invasive Cardiol. 2009 Jul;21(7):E128-31. PubMed PMID: 19571355.

  • Flaherty MP, Guo Y, Tiwari S, Rezazadeh A, Hunt G, Sanganalmath SK, Tang XL, Bolli R, Dawn B. The role of TNF-alpha receptors p55 and p75 in acute myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury and late preconditioning. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2008 Dec;45(6):735-41. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.08.014. Epub 2008 Sep 12. PubMed PMID: 18824172; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2645001.

  • Flaherty MP, Dawn B. Noncanonical Wnt11 signaling and cardiomyogenic differentiation. Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2008 Oct;18(7):260-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tcm.2008.12.001. Review. PubMed PMID: 19232955; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2673908.

  • Flaherty MP, Leesar MA, Dawn B. Acute myocardial infarction in a 19 year-old female owing to hypercoagulable state of pregnancy and the puerperium. J Invasive Cardiol. 2008 Sep;20(9):E262-4. PubMed PMID: 18762684.

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