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Robert Chapman
Wesley Jr., MD is the eldest child born to a family physician, Dr.
Robert C.
Wesley, and an English teacher, Anne Louise Reynolds, in rural central
Virginia. His daughter, Naissan Oliai Wesley, MD,
is a board-certified
dermatologist and fellowship trained dematologic surgeon, further
specialized
in skin cancer surgery and cosmetic procedures.
After graduating
from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Dr. Wesley attended
Yale
College as a Yale National Scholar and graduated with highest honors in
the
History of Fine Arts. He received his medical degree from Yale
University
School of Medicine. After residency at The Graduate hospital of
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where he received the Terri Guth Award for Humanitarianism
in
medicine and was voted the most outstanding resident, he completed a
cardiology
fellowship at the University of Virginia. There he received a Physician
Scientist Award from the National Institute of Health and co-authored
two
biomedical patents.
Dr. Wesley then
moved to the University of California at Irvine where he first served as
Assistant Professor of Medicine and later as Assistant Dean, Director of
Cardiovascular Education, and Associate Professor of Medicine. At the
Long
Beach V.A. Medical Center, he directed the Clinical Electrophysiology
Laboratory.
Dr. Wesley also
served for one year as Professor of Medicine, in the Department of
Internal
Medicine at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, before founding
New
Life Cardiology in Las Vegas in 1997. In 2002, he joined Nevada Heart
& Vascular
Center.
Over the years,
Dr. Wesley has developed and cultivated remarkable therapeutic skills.
He has
studied clinical hypnosis for over 20 years and is a member of the
American
Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the foundation of Dr. Wesley’s interest in
“Mind-Body” medicine and in alternative and complementary health. He is
Nevada’s
only physician simultaneously board certified in Internal Medicine,
Cardiovascular Diseases, and Integrative & Holistic Medicine.
In addition to
his academic pursuits and medical practice, Dr. Wesley has maintained a
strong
interest and an active role in increasing public awareness on relevant
social
issues. He served in the national leadership of Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR) for 10 years and for 3 years as Co-President of the
Los
Angeles Chapter. For the work of his medical students against gun
violence, he
accepted on their behalf The Children's Defense Fund Award in
Washington, D.C.
on November 15, 1995.
He has worked as
a teaching fellow at the Institute do Cardiologia in Porto Alegre,
Brazil and
has a rudimentary facility in Russian and Portuguese. He
is the CEO of the Brazilian Company,
AEAES Gestao Administration and is member of the Sociedade Brasileira de
Cardiologia. He has participated
in the running of a non-profit jazz club in Philadelphia (The Foxhole
Café) and
has a cultivated interest in music, dance, and drama.
In October, 2009,
Dr. Wesley won first place in a charity dance competition, sponsored by
the
American Cancer Society and the From the Heart Charitable Group, to
raise money
for childhood cancer patients, entitled “Dancing for Your Star”.
In March, 2010,
Dr. Wesley was installed for a three year term as President of the
Nevada
Chapter and Governor for The American College of Cardiology.
In June, 2010,
Dr. Wesley and his colleague, Dr. Chowdhry Ahsan, were named as the
outstanding
adjunct teaching faculty of the University of Nevada School of
Medicine’s
Internal Medicine Department.
Dr. Wesley
affirms: "Our aim is not simply to reverse the process of disease, but
rather to optimize health and well-being. All aspects of the patient
must be
considered. Essential to this path is the cultivation of relationship
and the
harnessing of powerful thoughts and affirmations."
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