Anna Harkins, DO

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Dr. Anna Marie Harkins is a third-generation Fort Worth Texan and a third generation female to graduate from Texas Christian University (TCU). Her first career was in Physical Chemistry. She earned a masters degree and PhD from Duke University in Physical Chemistry. She did postdoctoral research at M.I.T., Texas Woman’s University, Southwestern Medical School, and the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Harkins then spent five years as a Systems Engineer with Ross Perot’s EDS. She then received her medical degree from North Texas University – TCOM in Fort Worth, Texas. After a rotating internship in Dallas, she did an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Missouri in Kansas City followed by a fellowship in Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining Southeast Houston Cardiology, Dr. Harkins practiced Cardiology in Phoenix, Arizona for two years and subsequently ran her own office in Pasadena, Texas from 1989 until 2000. She consults with patients in the Pasadena Office and rounds on hospitalized patients at Bayshore Medical Center and Southeast Memorial Hospital.



Services:
Comprehensive Cardiovascular Risk Assessment, Laboratory Testing, Non-Invasive Cardiac Testing, Electrocardiogram (EKG), Echocardiogram (including Stress Echocardiography), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR), Cardiovascular CT (64-slice CT), Heart Rhythm Monitoring, Holter Monitors, Event Monitors, Optimization of Pacemakers and Defibrillators (ICD), Implantable Loop Recorder Monitoring, Vascular Ultrasound, Vascular Screening and Noninvasive Vascular Testing, Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Treatments, Cardioversion for AFib and SVT, Catheter Ablation for Arrhythmias, Pacemaker Implantation, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Placement, Loop Recorder Insertion, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Catheterization, Angioplasty and Stenting, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), Minimally Invasive and Robotic Procedures, Vein Ablations for Varicose Veins, Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Repair and Replacement (e.g., Mitral Valve Repair), Robotic-Assisted Cardiac Surgery, Heart Failure and Structural Heart Therapies, Cardiac Rehab Programs for Heart Failure Management, Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Heart Transplant Surgery, Women’s Heart Health, Preventive Cardiology