{"id":62007,"date":"2022-10-21T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=62007"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:22:29","slug":"featured-physician-casey-gazda-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/featured-physician-casey-gazda-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Physician: Casey Gazda, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/casey-adams\/\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW27857904 BCX4\">Casey Gazda, MD<\/span><\/a><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW27857904 BCX4\">\u00a0is<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW27857904 BCX4\"> an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology. She is a non-invasive cardiologist, who specializes in advanced cardia<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW27857904 BCX4\">c imaging, including cardiac CT and structural\/interventional echocardiography. She is the <span class=\"normaltextrun\">only person in her family to have gone to college, so she is proud to have carried herself through all the education and training required to finally become an academic cardiologist. Becoming a mother to her beautiful son is the best thing that she&#8217;s ever done. <\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2405\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 277px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-267x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Casey Adams, MD\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-267x300.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-911x1024.jpeg 911w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-768x863.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-1367x1536.jpeg 1367w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-1822x2048.jpeg 1822w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-600x674.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Casey_Gazda-headshot-301x338.jpeg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Casey Gazda, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"normaltextrun\">1. What brought you to UNC Medical Center?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">I originally came to UNC Medical Center for my fellowship training in Cardiology. My husband is a U.S. Army Officer whose career will be focused at Ft. Bragg for the foreseeable future, so we knew North Carolina was where we wanted to start our family. I was immediately drawn to the camaraderie and collaboration I saw amongst the people in the Division of Cardiology. I loved it so much that I stuck around for an advanced imaging fellowship and was fortunate enough to be offered a position as faculty afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">2. Where are you from?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">I grew up in a tiny town with no stoplights in central Illinois. When I moved to North Carolina, I soon found out that a couple of my cardiology colleagues grew up within an hour or so of my hometown (Dr. Joseph Rossi and Dr. Alan Hinderliter). It\u2019s a small world!<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">3. Did you always want to be a doctor?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">In high school, I loved science class, but I had also taken a job at a nursing home and enjoyed taking care of people. I decided then that becoming a doctor would allow me the best of both worlds. <\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">4. How did you choose your specialty?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">My first rotation of residency was inpatient cardiology and I remember being scared to sign an oral potassium chloride order for a patient we were diuresing. I had wonderful attendings who took the time to teach and helped me truly understand the heart and what an elegant organ it is. I enjoyed the critical care aspect of cardiology and the ability to use life-saving medications and procedures to help folks in the direst of situations.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">5. What do you find most rewarding about your work?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">The most rewarding part of my work is helping people make remarkable recoveries from severe cardiovascular disease and then go on to become empowered to maintain their health. I get to be involved in that recovery at the bedside making real-time decisions, following my patients from the hospital to the clinic, reading imaging studies, and helping with cardiac procedures.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">6. What are some of the new developments in your field of specialty?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Advanced cardiovascular imaging is a rapidly evolving area of our field. We are using cardiac CT and MRI more than ever before to make the diagnosis of coronary atherosclerosis, structural and infiltrative diseases, and to plan and guide transcatheter cardiac procedures.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">7. Is there a particular achievement (professional or personal) that has been most gratifying to you?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">I came from humble beginnings and am the only person in my family to have gone to college, so I am proud to have carried myself through all the education and training required to finally become an academic cardiologist. Becoming a mother to my beautiful son is the best thing I\u2019ve ever done.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">8. What is the best advice you\u2019ve ever received?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Listen to the patient.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">9. If you weren\u2019t a physician, what would you like to be doing?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Running a cozy caf\u00e9 and book store.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">10. What hobbies do you enjoy?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">I enjoy hiking and reading (almost anything)&#8230;. and eating donuts.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">11. What was the last book you read?<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&#8220;Memoirs of Cleopatra&#8221; by Margaret George.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Gazda, MD is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology. 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