About Us

Denis E. Maddox, M.D.

Dr. Maddox completed his specialty training in cardiology at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. His three years of fellowship training included two years devoted primarily to clinical research. His special areas of interest have been interventional cardiology, including angioplasty, stents and pacemakers-but also non-invasive diagnostic testing such as cardiac and vascular ultrasound and nuclear cardiology. He has published several original articles in major cardiology journals and has presented his findings at scientific meetings.

Medical School was completed at Loma Linda University in Southern California and residency training at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena and at the University of California, Davis.

For the past 21 years Dr. Maddox has been in private practice of cardiology in Bakersfield, California. He participated in founding the first cardiovascular specialty hospital in the state of California, the Bakersfield Heart Hospital. The planning for this highly regarded project began in 1994 and the first patients were admitted for care in 1999. The hospital is rated among the top 5% nationwide in quality of care, both for cardiac surgery and cath lab procedures-especially for high standards of care for acute heart attacks. The hospital models the improved outcomes and shorter length of hospital stay characteristic of specialty heart hospitals nationwide.

Dr Maddox' office is located only a few steps away from his hospitalized patients, on the campus of the Bakersfield Heart Hospital.

Eloise Maddox

Mrs. Eloise Maddox is a native of Kern County and attended local schools. She has managed Dr. Maddox office for most of the past 13 years and has worked in all phases of the medical practice. Her refined taste as well as people skills are evident everywhere in the business, from office design and décor to the organization of patient care.

She has taken personal responsibility for training, "one on one", all new office employees to assure continuity and a high level of customer service. She has provided a strong lead role in developing our new weight loss program, "The Center for Medical Weight Loss."

Steve Phillips

Steve Phillips is an experienced and personable cardiac technician with extensive background in not only cardiovascular diagnostic testing but also research. He held positions at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles and Washington University in St. Louis before moving to Bakersfield in the mid 1970's. He has performed non invasive testing in private practice here for over 35 years. The high quality of his work and his easy sense of humor have made Steve an invaluable asset in the non-invasive lab.