Dr. Arzu Ilercil graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N. Y. earning a BS degree in biochemistry (with honors) and her MD degree. She completed an internal medicine residency and cardiovascular disease fellowship training at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She completed additional sub-specialty training in Echocardiography at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center in New York City.

Dr. Ilercil has been the Medical Director of the Non-Invasive Laboratory at Tampa General Hospital for more than 5 years. Between 2002 and 2008 Dr. Ilercil held a faculty appointment at the University of South Florida, Division of Cardiovascular Disease. During her ten years of involvement in Academic Medicine, Dr. Ilercil has contributed to the education of hundreds of physicians training in cardiovascular disease, most recently as an Associate Professor of Medicine.

She has published numerous articles and has presented at national and international meetings with research interests focused on Echocardiography, Cardiac Resynchronization and Cardiovascular Disease in Women.

Her areas of clinical expertise are Echocardiography, Echocardiographic Optimization of patients undergoing Resynchronization Therapy, and care of patients with complex cardiac disease.