Kirsten Tolstrup, MD is Assistant Director of the Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Tolstrup is also Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her current interests are non-invasive imaging, valvular heart disease and general clinical cardiology.
As a specialist in transthoracic and transesophageal cardiac ultrasound, Dr. Tolstrup is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and American Society of Echocardiography. She is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and echocardiography. Dr. Tolstrup is the past president and now member of the board of Los Angeles Society of Echocardiography and is a member of the American Heart Association Clinical Cardiology Council, American College of Cardiology, American Society of Echocardiography and the Heart Valve Society of America.
Dr. Tolstrup's research work includes non-invasive imaging, valvular heart disease and cardiac calcifications, which are the focus of several of her ongoing clinical studies. As Director of the Magnetocardiography (MCG) Laboratory, she investigates the use of risk free noninvasive magnetic field map measurements for the detection of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease, ischemia, and transplant rejection. Dr. Tolstrup is also the principle investigator on a large research trial on the genetics of bicuspid aortic valve disease. She has presented several abstracts and manuscripts on these topics, and she has written book chapters on aortic valve sclerosis and stenosis.
Dr. Tolstrup received her medical degree from the University of Copenhagen Health Sciences Center. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) + Los Angeles County (LAC) Medical Center in Los Angeles and her cardiovascular fellowship at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.
