Heart & Vascular Institute

University Hospitals Heart & Vascular Institute Faculty

Directors:

• Daniel I. Simon, MD, FACC, Director
• Mukesh Jain, MD, Chief Research Officer
• Adnan Cobanoglu, MD Co-Director
• James Fang, MD, FACC, Chief Medical Officer
• Alan Markowitz, MD, Chief Surgical Director

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Heart Failure & Transplant Center:

• Arie Blitz, MD, Surgical Director
• Rebecca Boxer, MD
• Adnan Cobanoglu, MD, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery
• James Fang, MD, FACC, Director, Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation and Circulatory Assistance
• Parag Kale, MD
• Ileana Pina, MD
• Jose Ortiz, MD

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Cardiac Surgery Center:

• Arie Blitz, MD
• Brian Cmolik, MD
• Adnan Cobanoglu, MD, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Carlos Garcia, MD
• Daniel van Heeckren, MD
• Alan Markowitz, MD, Chief Surgical Director
• Sanjeev Sharma, MD

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Vascular Center:

• Henry Baele, MD
• Jeffrey M. Boyko, DO
• Teresa Carman, MD
• Howard I. Darvin, MD, FACS
• Mark C. Goldberg, MD
• Jerry Goldstone, MD, Chief, Vascular Surgery
• Matthew Passalacqua, DO
• James M. Persky, MD, FACS
• Virginia Wong, MD

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Electrophysiology Center:

• Mauricio Arruda, MD, Director, Electrophysiology Services
• Ivan Cakulev, MD
• Robert Goldstein, MD
• Mauricio Hong, MD
• Jay Sahadevan, MD, Director, Electrophysiology Cleveland-Stokes VA Medical Center
• Judith Mackall, MD, Director, Electrophysiology
• Bruce Stambler, MD
• Albert Waldo, MD, Associate Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine for Academic Affairs

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Cardiology Evaluation and Prevention Center:

• G. Brandon Atkins, MD, PhD
• Barry Effron, MD, Director, Ambulatory Cardiology
• James Fang, MD, FACC, Director, Clinical Cardiology
• Michel Farah, MD
• Steven Fisher, MD
• Lloyd Greene, MD
• Saptarsi Haldar, MD
• Arthur Halle, MD
• Anne Hamik, MD, PhD
• Mukesh Jain, MD, Director, Case Cardiovascular Research Institute
• Joseph Krall, MD
• Carl Orringer, MD
• Jose Ortiz, MD
• Thomas Wilson, MD
• Teresa Carman, MD
• Richard Josephson, MD
• Sri Krishna Madan Mohan, MD
• Michael Cunningham, MD

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Cardiovascular Imaging Center:

• Recai Aktay, MD
• Michel Farah, MD
• Lloyd Greene, MD
• Jerry Goldstone, MD, Director, Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory
• Robert Gilkeson, MD, Director, Cardiovascular Imaging
• Brian Hoit, MD, Director, Echocardiography
• Richard Josephson, MD
• Sri Krishna Madan Mohan, MD
• James O’Donnell, MD, Director, Nuclear Medicine
• Arabi Naso, MD
• Matthew Passalacqua, DO

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Interventional Cardiology Center:

• Shyam Bhakta, MD
• Marco Costa, MD
• Michael Cunningham, MD
• Fadi El-Atat, MD
• Joseph Jozic, MD
• Tom Lassar, MD
• Ravi Nair, MD, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
• Vincent Pompili, MD, FACC, Director, Interventional Cardiology
• Daniel I. Simon, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Director, Heart & Vascular Institute; Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine

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Women's Cardiovascular Center:

• Rebecca Boxer, MD
• Teresa Carman, MD
• James Fang, MD
• Anne Hamik, MD, PhD
• Richard Josephson, MD
• Judith Mackall, MD
• Sri Krishna Madan Mohan, MD
• Carl Orringer, MD
• Virginia Wong, MD

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Research Center:

• Mauricio Arruda, MD
• G. Brandon Atkins, MD, PhD
• Teresa Carman, MD
• Marco Costa, MD
• Steven Fisher, MD
• Saptarsi Haldar, MD
• Anne Hamik, MD, PhD
• Brian Hoit, MD, Director, Echocardiography
• Mukesh Jain, MD, Director, Case Cardiovascular Research Institute
• Aaron Proweller, MD, PhD
• Daniel I. Simon, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Director, Heart & Vascular Institute; Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine Heart & Vascular Institute
• Bruce Stambler, MD
• Al Waldo, MD