Bartley Griffith, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Cardiac Surgery and Cardiothoracic Transplantation
Dr. Griffith directs the Division of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiothoracic Transplantation in the Department of Surgery and is a professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Prior to his arrival at the University of Maryland, Dr. Griffith served as vice chair in the department of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was also chief of cardiothoracic surgery and the Henry T. Bahnson Professor of Surgery. He also served as the founding director for the internationally recognized McGowan Center for Artificial Organ Development.
Dr. Griffith's clinical work focuses on coronary artery surgery, mitral and aortic valve replacement and aneurysmal disease of the thoracic aorta. His research interests are concentrated on heart and lung transplantation, cell transplantation and advancing the use of artificial organs. He has directed more than 1,200 heart transplants and 600 lung transplants and is an innovator in the use of immunosuppression after transplant and mechanical blood pumps prior to transplant.
In August of 2003 he reconstructed the top two chambers of a woman's heart with animal and human donor tissue. This first-of-its-kind surgery was performed to remove a potentially deadly and recurring tumor called a myxoma.
In September of 2002, he led a team of Heart Center cardiac surgeons to implant a revolutionary new rotary heart pump called the Jarvik 2000 to save the life of a man with heart failure.
Dr. Griffith received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and completed a surgery internship and general and cardiothoracic surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Health Center Hospitals. He is an NHLBI investigator and is currently developing an artificial lung. He has published over 500 articles and book chapters, lectured at professional meetings nationally and internationally, and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including induction into the Royal College of Surgeons,Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Johannes Bonatti, M.D.,
F.E.T.C.S.
Professor of Surgery
Director, Coronary Surgery and Advanced Coronary Interventions
Dr. Bonatti -- who is recognized as one of the world's most experienced surgeons in minimally invasive coronary operations using the da Vinci robot -- received his training in general surgery and cardiac surgery at the department of surgery at Innsbruck Medical University in Austria. Prior to his arrival at the University of Maryland, he worked at this institution as an attending surgeon and associate professor. Dr. Bonatti specializes in adult cardiac surgery with experience in coronary surgery, valve surgery, aortic surgery, and heart transplantation. He is European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (EBTCS) certified.
Dr. Bonatti's main interest is the development of minimally invasive, totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting (TECAB) procedures using robotic technology. As one of the international leaders in this field, he performed the largest series of robotic TECAB on the arrested heart, including single and double vessel TECAB. He has significantly published on procedure development and the implementation process of completely endoscopic coronary surgery using the da Vinci robotic system.
Together with colleagues from interventional cardiology, Dr. Bonatti is working on integrated concepts for treatment of coronary artery disease. He was the first to perform a simultaneous hybrid coronary intervention using TECAB and placement of a coronary stent. He has trained heart surgeons from around the world in the use of the da Vinci robot for heart surgery and he has introduced TECAB procedures in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, India, and Australia. Most recently he received the “Distinguished Robotic Surgeon and Pioneer in da Vinci Cardiac Surgery” award from Intuitive Surgical.
Dr. Bonatti wants to give the coronary artery bypass grafting operation a new friendly and attractive appearance. His research interests also include vascular biology of coronary artery bypass grafts. Dr.Bonatti is a member and board member of several international societies in cardiovascular medicine.
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Jamie
Brown, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, Cardiac Transplantation and Assist Devices
Dr. Brown's superb clinical competency enhances the University of Maryland's position as a pioneer of innovative cardiac care services. He maintains a strong commitment to multidisciplinary care in the treatment of patients,and has considerable expertise in off-pump coronary surgery and minimally invasive approaches to valve surgery. He is leading the group-growing capability in the treatment of aortic valve disease with stentless valve homografts and valve-sparing repair procedures.
Prior to his arrival at the University of Maryland, Dr. Brown was an assistant professor of surgery in the division of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Brown graduated from Trinity College and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He served a general surgery residency and a thoracic residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and has done outstanding work in the basic sciences with over 70 peer-reviewed publications to his name.
Board certified in general and thoracic surgery, Dr. Brown is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and serves as an active member of the Association for Academic Surgery and the American College of Chest Physicians.
Marcelo
Cardarelli, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he received his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires and completed his training as a general and cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr.Cardarelli came to this country for further specialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. He underwent training as a fellow at the Texas Heart Institute and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and completed an extra year as senior resident at Boston Children's Hospital. Before joining the University of Maryland in 1993, Dr.Cardarelli worked as a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.
Dr. Cardarelli's main interests include pediatric cardiac surgery, adult cardiac surgery and the Ross Procedure in children and adults. He was also one of the lead surgeons in successfully separating conjoined twin girls whose hearts were connected by a large blood vessel. His research interests include bioengineering of vascular structures.
James Gammie, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Dr. Gammie joined the University of Maryland Heart Center from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where he was an assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery and surgical director of cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.
He received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he also completed a research fellowship in the Divisions of cellular therapeutics and cardiothoracic surgery.
His clinical and research interests include minimally invasive and video-assisted mitral valve repair, off-pump bypass or "beating heart" surgery, and the treatment of atrial fibrillation using a modified MAZE-type procedure, cryoprobes, and microwave technology. He also contributes to the growing heart and lung transplant program and the mechanical circulatory support program at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Richard
N. Pierson III, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Director, Surgical Care Service, Veterans Administration Maryland Health Care
System
Clinical Director, Heart and Lung Transplantation
Dr. Pierson received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His postgraduate clinical training included general surgery at the University of Michigan, cardiac and thoracic surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical and research fellowship in cardiothoracic transplantation at Papworth Hospital at Cambridge University. After eight years at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he joined the University of Maryland Heart Center in 2002.
His clinical interests include heart and lung transplantation and heart assist device therapy. He is an established investigator in the area of immunobiology of transplantation, and has special experience in xenotransplantation. His laboratory is funded by the NIH and Veterans Affairs Research Program, and he has had numerous grants and awards from other funding agencies, including ALA, AHA, ASTS and DOD ONR.
Dr. Pierson is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Association of VA Surgeons. He has been selected annually as one of the Best Doctors in America since 2001 and by America's Top Doctors since 2002. He is a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Society of University Surgeons, UNOS Policy Oversight Committee, VA National Transplant and Thoracic Transplant Boards, and President-Elect of the Xenotransplantation Association, a section of the Transplantation Society.
Mandeep R. Mehra, M.B.B.S., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P.
Herbert Berger Chair in Medicine
Professor and Head of Cardiology
Assistant Dean for Clinical Services
Dr. Mehra, a nationally recognized cardiologist with expertise in the treatment of heart failure and heart muscle damage, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory devices, is professor and head of cardiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
He comes to Baltimore from the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, La., where he was vice-chair for clinical and academic affairs in the department of cardiovascular medicine and chief of cardiomyopathy and heart transplantation at the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Center.
Dr. Mehra obtained his cardiovascular training at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, where he sub-specialized in the field of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
He has published more than 300 articles on advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, including various treatment modalities and alternatives to transplantation. His specific research interests in cardiac transplantation focus on post-transplant coronary arterial disease, new immunosuppressive therapy to improve heart transplant outcomes, and bringing genomic and proteomic science (the study of protein interactions in the body) to the bedside. In the field of heart failure, his research has focused on the role of new devices and novel serum markers to guide diagnosis and therapy.
Dr. Mehra has lectured at national and international professional meetings and has received numerous honors and awards. He serves on the board of directors of the International Society of Transplantation and is a member of the education and practice guidelines committees for the Heart Failure Society of America.
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R. Michael Benitez, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Benitez directs the cardiology graphics laboratory and is director of the cardiology fellowship training program. He maintains a busy clinical practice and a presence in the cardiac catheterization lab. He attended medical school at the University of Maryland and trained in internal medicine at the University of Virginia.
His research interests include the role of infection and inflammation in the promotion of atherosclerosis. He is also known for his role in the University of Maryland's "Historic CPC" program, which has investigated the deaths of Edgar Allan Poe and Alexander the Great, among others.
Christoper DeFilippi, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. DeFilippi received his M.D. from the University of Rochester. He was a resident at both the University of Texas-Southwestern/Dallas VA Medical Center and at University Hospital in Boston, and served a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Texas-Southwestern.
Dr. DeFilippi's special interests include echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, post-transplant surveillance and management of patients with kidney disease. He is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
Timm-Michael
Dickfeld, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Dickfeld joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the department of medicine, division of cardiology.
After receiving both his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Goethe Medical School in Germany, Dr. Dickfeld completed a residency in cardiovascular diseases at the Technical University of Munich, German Heart Institute. Following this, he came to Duke University Hospital, where he was an intern and resident in medicine. Most recently, Dr. Dickfeld completed both a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases and electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Dickfeld’s clinical and research is in electrophysiology.
Erika D. Feller, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Feller joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the department of medicine, division of cardiology. She is a member of the heart failure and transplant program team.
Prior to coming to the University of Maryland in the fall of 2004, Dr. Feller had spent five years at Temple University Hospital, where she was a medical intern, medical resident, cardiology fellow and chief cardiology fellow. Her areas of special interest include heart failure, heart transplant immunology and left ventricular assist device physiology. She is board certified in internal medicine.
John S. Gottdiener, M.D., F.A.C.C.,
Professor of Medicine
Director, Echocardiography Lab
Dr. Gottdiener is professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, within the division of cardiology. He has also been named head of echocardiography at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Gottdiener comes to Baltimore from New York where he has been a professor of medicine at SUNY Stony Brook, School of Medicine and director of non-invasive cardiac imaging at St. Francis Hospital. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at Georgetown University School of Medicine for over 20 years, with a two-year stint during that time at the University of Maryland when he was head of the echocardiography research laboratory and co-director of the lab.
A graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Gottdiener continued his training with an internship and residency in internal medicine at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill.
Stephen S. Gottlieb, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Heart Failure Service & Cardiac Care Unit
Director, Cardiology Clinical Research Program
Dr. Gottlieb is professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he directs the Heart Failure Service and the Cardiac Care Unit. He has published extensively regarding congestive heart failure, beta blockade, and clinical outcomes. He reviews for numerous journals, and is on the editorial board of Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, among others. Dr. Gottlieb was United States coordinator for MERIT-HF, the largest mortality study of beta-blockers in heart failure. He published in the New England Journal of Medicine an analysis of the mortality effects of beta blockade in various groups of patients.
Dr. Gottlieb's investigations center on treatment of congestive heart failure. He is investigating new treatments for heart failure, including (among others) medications that improve the pumping of the heart, medications which help the kidney in heart failure patients, and devices that aid the heart in pumping blood. He is currently investigating the effects of home telemonitoring in heart failure patients. Dr. Gottlieb is actively involved with treating and evaluating patients for the heart transplantation program at the University of Maryland.
Anuj Gupta, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Peripheral Vascular Interventions
Dr. Gupta is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he is the director of peripheral vascular interventions. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and completed his residency at Montefiore Medical Center. He also completed three fellowships: in cardiovascular research at Weill Medical College of Cornell University; in cardiology at Temple University and in interventional cardiology at Columbia University.
Dr. Gupta's special interests include peripheral vascular disease, aortic balloon valvuloplasty, and coronary artery disease. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology.
Robert
E. Hood, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Hood is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, he served as chief of cardiology at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
He received his medical degree from Georgetown University, completed an internship in flexible medicine at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, California and an internal medicine residency at the U.S. Naval Hopsital in Portsmouth, Virginia. He went on to become a fellow in cardiovascular diseases at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. He also completed a cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Hood's clinical interests include arrhythmia and electrophysiologic disorders, and he's board certified in internal medicine, cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology.
Scott D. Jerome, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Jerome is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residencies at Grandview Hospital in Ohio, and Sinai Hospital in Maryland. He also completed a cardiology fellowship at Wayne State University. Dr. Jerome's special interests include preventive cardiology, as well as nuclear and C-T cardiac images.
Wallace R. Johnson, Jr., M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Johnson is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he also received his medical degree. He went on to serve a residency at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore.
Dr. Johnson's clinical and research interest is in hypertension. He is also board certified in internal medicine.
Mark
D. Kelemen, M.D., MSc, F.A.C.C.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Kelemen is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. His research interests have been in the non-invasive evaluation of vascular function in patients with a variety of medical conditions, including elderly people with hypertension, women with mild coronary artery disease, and patients with kidney failure.
Dr. Kelemen received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at the Duke University Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1996 and served on the Hopkins faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center until late 2002, when he joined the University of Maryland in his present capacity. He received a master's degree in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene.
Dr. Kelemen heads an active clinical practice at the University of Maryland, seeing patients with all types of cardiovascular diseases. He continues to do research aimed at preventing the complications of coronary artery disease and in insuring that we follow the best clinical practice guidelines. He is involved in the education of the medical students, internal medicine residents and the cardiology fellows.
Michael
Miller, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Director, Center for Preventive Cardiology
Dr. Miller serves as associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In addition, he is director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and staff physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore.
His major research interests are disorders of lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, molecular studies of low HDL cholesterol, triglycerides and the postprandial response to dietary fat, and clinical trials of atherosclerosis prevention and regression.
He is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Internal Medicine, with a subspecialty certification in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Miller is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis. He is also an active member of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology and the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology.
Dr. Miller has published more than 100 articles, book chapters and abstracts. His research has appeared in prestigious scientific and clinical journals such as Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of the American Medical Association and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is the co-author of The Practice of Coronary Disease Prevention, published by Williams and Wilkins in 1996 (292 pages) and is a contributor to the Adult Clinical Cardiology Self-Assessment Program (ACCSAP 2000). In addition, Dr. Miller is the senior author of a new book, AMA Guide to Preventing Heart Disease.
Dr. Miller received his B.A. degree from Rutgers College and his M.D. from The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. Following a medical residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, he completed two fellowships at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, one in lipoprotein metabolism and the second in cardiovascular disease. His research is presently funded by the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Affairs and the American Heart Association.
Myung
H. Park, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Park joined the University of Maryland Heart Center in the summer of 2005 after seven years at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans.While there, she served in the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Section as the director of the Cardiac Transplant Service. Her efforts led to the development of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program of which she served as the director.
After receiving her medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine, Dr. Park continued her training in Philadelphia with an internship and residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital.This was followed by a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Medical College of Virginia. She furthered her training by completing an advanced fellowship in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Dr. Park is board certified in cardiology and internal medicine. She specializes in pulmonary hypertension, heart transplantation, advanced heart failure, and ventricular assist devices.
Dr. Park has presented original research at national and international scientific meetings, and is an investigator in many study trials in treatment of pulmonary hypertension as well as heart failure and cardiac transplantation. She is published in the areas of management and treatment of pulmonary hypertension, cardiac transplant immunology, ventricular assist devices, treatment of cardiac allograft rejection, and medical therapies for patients with end-stage congestive heart failure. Dr. Park is a member of the American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, Heart Failure Society of America, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
Robert W. Peters, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Peters is a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology and is a staff physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center, where he is a member of the electrophysiology section. He's also chief of the cardiology section of the Baltimore VA Medical Center, where he's in charge of arrhythmias and clinical electrophysiology. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, with a subspecialty certification in cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Peters received his B.A. degree from Columbia University and his M.D. from the Chicago Medical School. He was a intern at the University of Southern California Medical Center and completed his first year of medical residency at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. Following two years in the United States Army Medical Corps, he completed his residency at the George Washington University Medical Center.
He received his cardiology training at the University of California in San Francisco, after which he served for five years on the staff at San Francisco General Hospital as assistant professor and director of the coronary care unit.
His major research interests are cardiac arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, acute myocardial infarction and chronobiology (the timing of biologic processes). Dr. Peters is author or co-author of more than 250 articles, book chapters and abstracts. He serves as a seientific reviewer for a number of prestigious scientific journals, including Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the American Journal of Cardiology, PACE, and CHEST.
Gary D. Plotnick, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Plotnick received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1966. After completing his residency training at the University of Maryland Medical Center, he served as chief medical resident at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Following a research cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins in 1972-1974, he returned to the University of Maryland, where he has remained since.
Dr. Plotnick's expertise is in the field of echocardiography. His research interests have included unstable angina, diastolic function, pericardial disease and most recently, endothelial function. He has authored or co-authored over 110 articles, 11 book chapters, 91 abstracts and 3 books. Dr. Plotnick has served on the board of directors of the American Society of Echocardiography.
Dr. Plotnick was director of University of Maryland's echocardiography laboratory from 1987-1997 and director of the cardiology fellowship from 1987-2001. He has most recently been involved with medical school and graduate education, and is the recipient of the 2001 campus-wide Founder's Day Teacher of the Year Award.
Gautam V. Ramani, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Ramani is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed a cardiovascular diseases fellowship.
Dr. Ramani's special interests include congestive heart failure, transplantation, and primary hypertension. He is board certified in cardiovascular and internal medicine.
Peter Reyes, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Reyes is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is the director of clinical interventional cardiology research. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann. He also completed a cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Temple University.
Dr. Reyes' special interests include interventional cardiology and cardiac catheterization. He is board certified in cardiovascular and internal medicine.
Barry Reicher, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Reicher is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He continued his training as a fellow in adult cardiovascular disease and in interventional cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Dr. Reicher's areas of special interest include cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology, and he's board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
Shawn W. Robinson, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Robinson is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he also received his medical degree. He completed a medicine residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and served as a cardiology fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Robinson's clinical and research interests include congestive heart failure, skeletal myoblast transfer, sodium/potassium and ATPase on myocyte function. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
Magdi Saba, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Saba joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the department of medicine, division of cardiology, in the summer of 2006.
After receiving his medical degree from the faculty of medicine at Cairo University, Dr. Saba completed a residency and obtained his M.Sc. in cardiovascular disease at Cairo University Hospitals. Subsequently, he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at SUNY at Syracuse and the George Washington University. He completed his fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, where he was the recipient of the 2005 Charles B. Moore Research in Cardiology Award, and most recently a fellowship in electrophysiology at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Saba is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.
Anastasios P. Saliaris, M.B., B.Ch., BAO
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Saliaris is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency and fellowships in cardiology and electrophysiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Saliaris' special interests include cardiac electrophysiology, the implantation and management of pacemakers and ICD's including biventricular devices and the management of cardiac arrhythmias. He is board certified in cardiology and internal medicine.
Elijah Saunders, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Saunders, an internationally known hypertension expert who helped develop the national guidelines for the treatment of hypertension, is co-founder of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks. He is also a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he also received his medical degree. Dr. Saunders completed both a medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Saunders's clinical and research interests are related to hypertension. They include coronary disease in black populations, community programs to increase hypertension control, cardiovascular complications secondary to hypertension and severe and difficult-to-control hypertension. He is board certified in internal medicine.
Stephen R. Shorofsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Electrophysiology Laboratory
Dr. Shorofsky is a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is director of the electrophysiology laboratory. His expertise is in management of arrhythmias using devices, drugs and catheter ablation techniques. In addition, he has a 14-year research background in cardiac cellular electrophysiology, including the use of high resolution imaging techniques, to study mechanism of arrhythmias and heart failure.
He received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, where he also completed residency (internal medicine) and fellowship (cardiovascular diseases, electrophysiology) programs. He has also been co-investigator on several multi-center and single center clinical trials. This experience applies directly to clinical trials involving anti-arrhythmic drugs, device therapy, and the development of new technology to alter heart function.
Dr. Shorofsky has been in clinical practice for seven years and performs about 500 cardiac electrophysiologic procedures each year. He has received four research grants in which he has been the principal investigator, and has published more than 40 articles in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Shorofsky is a member of the American College of Cardiology, North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology, and the Biophysical Society. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and clinical electrophysiology.
J.
Lawrence Stafford, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Stafford is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is director of the interventional cardiology fellowship training program. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University and completed both a medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Rush-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Dr. Stafford's clinical and research interests include cardiac catheterization, coronary balloon angioplasty and permanent cardiac pacemakers. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
Mark Vesely, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Vesely is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from George Washington University. He completed both an internal medicine residency and cardiovascular fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Vesely's special interests include cardiovascular interventions. He is board certified in cardiovascular and internal medicine.
Robert Vogel, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Professor of Medicine
Director of Clinical Vascular Biology
Dr. Vogel is professor of medicine and director of clinical vascular biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He obtained his undergraduate degree in physics from Columbia University and his medical degree from Yale University in 1967. Following residency and fellowship training at the University of Colorado, he joined the cardiology faculty at that institution (1975-80). Subsequently, he was director of the VA cardiology section of the University of Michigan until 1987, when he moved to the University of Maryland as head of the division of cardiology, a position he held until 2000.
Dr. Vogel's research interests have focused on application of scintigraphic, digital radiographic and ultrasonic imaging assessment of coronary artery disease. His group originated the techniques of tomographic and quantitative myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, and was the first to employ on-line perfusion imaging and quantitative coronary angiography in the catheterization laboratory. At the University of Maryland, Dr. Vogel originated a comprehensive risk factor modification program, and has demonstrated the effects of risk factors, including serum cholesterol, diet and exercise, on endothelial function. He is the author of more than 220 papers, books, and book chapters.
David Zimrin, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Assistant Professor of Medicine;
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory;
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
Dr. Zimrin joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine as an assistant professor of medicine and has been appointed director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the University of Maryland Heart Center.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Zimrin went on to complete his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He continued his training with an internship, residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he subsequently completed his interventional cardiology training.
Since his arrival in Baltimore in 1986, Dr. Zimrin has practiced interventional and clinical cardiology. He is a founding member and past president of Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates and assisted in the early development of the angioplasty program at St. Joseph’s Medical Center. He later initiated the interventional cardiology program at Sinai Hospital, where he served as director.
Dr. Zimrin’s research interests include nitroglycerin pharmacokinetics and tolerance, load independent assessment of LV contractility and collaboration in clinical assessments of new catheter and stent designs.
Mubadda A. Salim, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Head, Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. Salim, an expert in heart rhythm abnormalities, is director of pediatric cardiology at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children (UMHC) and has joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine as associate professor of pediatrics. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, he spent 10 years at the University of Tennessee and Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center in Memphis, where he headed the pediatric cardiology department for almost two years.
Dr. Salim received his medical degree from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. He later completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the University of Tennessee and Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center. He spent six months of his fellowship at the Medical Center of South Carolina in Charleston, pursuing an interest in pediatric electrophysiology.
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