Dr. Tafur is an interventional Cardiologist of the Department of Cardiology at Ochsner and is the Cardiovascular Disease fellowship training program director. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Ochsner Clinical School of the University of Queensland. His primary professional focus has been on interventions for structural heart disease and postgraduate medical education. Dr. Tafur has served in the international committee of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and in the education standards committee of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He is a fellow of the ACC and SCAI. Since joining the faculty at Ochsner he has received teacher, mentor and research mentor of the year awards. He has authored multiple manuscripts and book chapters in transcatheter aortic valve replacement and peripheral arterial disease.

Dr. Tafur is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) and Endovascular Medicine by the American Board of Vascular Medicine (ABVM). Dr. Tafur performs complex high risk coronary interventions, transcatheter valve replacement and repair, peripheral arterial angioplasty and stenting and percutaneous treatment for deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism amongst others.

Dr. Tafur attended medical school at Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, his home town. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas in Houston. He continued to do his fellowship in Cardiology at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, followed by additional training in interventional Cardiology and structural heart disease at Ochsner. He joined our faculty in 2017 and became the Cardiovascular Disease program director in 2020. He is married and has two children under five. He enjoys biking, fishing, cooking, traveling and cheering for the New Orleans Saints.

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School

Universidad del Valle - Cali, Colombia

Internship

University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston, TX

Residency

University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston, TX

Fellowship

Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans, LA