Ildiko Agoston, M.D., FACC, FASE

Ildiko Agoston, M.D. received her medical degree in 1996 at the Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest, Hungary. She completed her internal medicine residency training in Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia and completed her fellowship training in cardiology and level III adult echocardiography at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She trained in cardiac MRI and cardiac CT at Duke Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center, Durham, North Carolina and Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York. She has held academic appointments at UTMB Galveston and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

She has a great passion for Women’s Health. While at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Agoston developed a Women’s Center promoting comprehensive evidence-based care.

After joining the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio in 2011 she developed the Women’s Comprehensive Health Institute (WCHI) at the  Medical Arts and Research Center (MARC). The goal of this center is to coordinate care for women of all ages in order to help promote healthy lifestyles and provide screening and treatment for our female patients in a convenient, easy access, one-stop shop/same day experience. As a cardiologist she provides cardiovascular risk stratification to many women and provides high-risk pregnancy expert opinion, incorporating multi-modality cardiovascular imaging in the decision making process(echocardiography, nuclear myocardial perfusion stress testing and exercise stress testing, coronary CTA, and calcium scoring as well as cardiac MRI). She is the Medical Director of the cardiology practice at the MARC. She is a passionate teacher and she also serves as the Director of Nuclear Cardiology for the Division of Cardiology and oversees the nuclear training of the cardiology fellows.

• Professional Background

  Education

  • 2007 - Clinical Fellowship - Cardiac CT - Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York
  • 2005 - Clinical Fellowship - Adult Echocardiography - The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  • 2005 - Clinical Fellowship - Cardiology - The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  • 2005 - Clinical Fellowship - Cardiac MRI - Cardiac MR fellowship, Duke Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center
  • 2002 - Clinical Fellowship - Cardiology - Baylor College of Medicine, Winters Center
  • 2001 - Residency - Internal Medicine - Graduate Hospital Tenet, affiliated with MCP Hahnemann Univ. Philadelphia
  • 1997 - Certificate - Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
  • 1996 - MD - General Medicine (Summa Cum Laude) - Semmelweis University of Medicine

  Appointments

  • 9/2018 - Professor/Clinical and Medical Director, Nuclear Cardiology - UT Health, Medicine, San Antonio
  • 9/2017 - Medical Director - UT Health Physicians Cardiology, Medicine, San Antonio
  • 7/2016 - Director, Nuclear Cardiology Training Program - UTHSCSA, Medicine, Division of Cardiology, San Antonio
  • 12/2011 - Non- invasive cardiologist - University Hospital SystemSan Antonio
  • 12/2011 - Non-invasive cardiologist - Christus Santa Rosa Hospital - Medical CenterSan Antonio

• Instruction & Training

  • 7/2014 - Present, Rotation Student Supervision, UTHSCSA MARC
  • 7/2012 - Present, Rotation Student Supervision, MARC and UHS heart station
  • 7/2012 - Present, Post Graduate Rotation Supervision, MARC
  • 3/2012 - Present, Intermediate Bedside Cardio Exam, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 1/2012 - Present, Clinical Cardiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 1/2012 - Present, Coronary Intensive Care Unit-Sub-internship - Univ. Hosp., The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 12/2011 - Present, Rotation Student Supervision, UT Medicine- MARC Cardiology
  • 12/2011 - Present, Post Graduate Rotation Supervision, UTHSCSA
  • 11/2011 - Present, Medicine Clerkship, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 11/2011 - Present, Clinical Teaching - CCU Attending at University Hospital
  • 11/2011 - Present, Clinical Teaching - Cardiology Consultation Service
  • 11/2011 - Present, Group Instruction

• Clinical

  Board Certifications

  • American Board of Internal Medicine/Cardiovascular Disease