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Richard S. Blankenbaker, MD

Accepting New Patients
500 West Broadway Street, Suite 320
Missoula, MT 59802
906.5 miles away
Medical Groups & Affiliations
Providence Medical Group - Montana
Speaks: English
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Providence Heart Institute Cardiology - Montana

500 West Broadway Street, Suite 320, Missoula, MT 59802

Insurances Accepted

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About Richard S. Blankenbaker

Dr. Richard Blankenbaker graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1991. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine in 1996. He then completed an additional year of Interventional Cardiology training at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Blankenbaker has been in private practice since 1997. His interests include cardiac catheterization, coronary intervention, peripheral vascular disease, and valvular heart disease. Dr. Blankenbaker has participated in several large US clinical trials involving coronary stents. Dr. Blankenbaker has also had extensive experience using the less invasive radial artery catheterization technique.

Dr. Blankenbaker is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and is Board Certified in General Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology.

Medical School

Medical University of South Carolina
1991

Fellowship

University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
1997

Fellowship

Emory University School of Medicine
1998

Residency

University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
1994

Board Certifications
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease
Providence Heart Institute Cardiology - Montana
500 West Broadway Street, Suite 320
Missoula, MT 59802

Medical Groups & Affiliations
Providence Medical Group - Montana

When not caring for patients, Richard enjoys hiking, skiing, golf, and fly fishing.

Conditions and Procedures

  • Abnormal Calcium Score
  • Abnormal Coronary Angiography
  • Abnormal Stress Test
  • Alcohol Septal Ablation
  • Anomalies Of The Coronary Artery
  • Aortic Valve Disease
  • Atherectomy
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Atherosclerosis Of The Aorta
  • Atrial Septal Defect (Asd)
  • Atrial Septal Defect (Asd) Closure Device Placement
  • Bicuspid Aortic Valve
  • Cardiac Angina
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Cardiogenic Shock
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Carotid Artery Angioplasty
  • Carotid Stent
  • Chest Pain
  • Chronic Total Occlusion
  • Claudication
  • Congestive Heart Failure (Chf)
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Coronary Artery Fistula
  • Coronary Artery Stent Placement
  • Coronary Calcium Scoring
  • Directional Atherectomy
  • Edwards Sapien Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve
  • Embolic Protection Devices
  • Exercise Intolerance
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Femoral Artery Angioplasty
  • Heart Biopsy
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis
  • Intra Aortic Balloon Pump
  • Intravascular Ultrasound
  • Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
  • Laser Atherectomy
  • Lithotripsy
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support
  • Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair
  • Mitral Regurgitation
  • Mitral Valve Disease
  • Mitral Valve Prolapse
  • Mitral Valve Regurgitation
  • Mitral Valve Stenosis
  • Myocardial Infarction (Mi)
  • Myocarditis
  • Myxoma
  • Optical Coherence Tomography
  • Paravalvular Leak Repair
  • Patent Foramen Ovale
  • Patent Foramen Ovale Closure
  • Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
  • Percutaneous Valvuloplasty
  • Peripheral Artery Angioplasty
  • Peripheral Vascular Diseases
  • Prinzmetals Angina
  • Pulmonary Artery Stenosis
  • Pulmonary Artery Thrombectomy
  • Pulmonary Valve Disorders
  • Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis
  • Radial Coronary Access
  • Refractory Angina
  • Replacement Cardiac Valve
  • Rheumatic Aortic Regurgitation
  • Rheumatic Aortic Stenosis
  • Rheumatic Diseases Of Pulmonary Valve
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease
  • Rheumatic Mitral Regurgitation
  • Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
  • Right Heart Catheterization
  • Right Heart Failure
  • Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
  • Rotational Atherectomy
  • Shortness Of Breath (Sob)
  • Subaortic Stenosis
  • Thrombectomy
  • Thrombolysis
  • Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • Tricuspid Valve Disease
  • Valve Stenosis
  • Valvular Endocarditis
  • Venous Thromboembolism