Vanderbilt Medical Center - Vanderbilt Heart
"Physicians are excited
about the prospects of cell therapy and oither research initiatives. We have the potential to transform the ways we treat people with cardiac disease at Vanderbilt."


–Douglas Vaughan, M.D.
Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Clinical Leadership Team

CLINICAL LEADERSHIP:
Catheterization Laboratory:
David Zhao, M.D., Director

Interventional Cardiology:
David Zhao, M.D., Director

Electrophysiology Laboratory:
Dawood Darbar, M.D., Director
Walter Clair, M.D., Clinical Director

Echocardiography:
Benjamin Byrd, M.D., Director

Cardiac Transplantation:
Mark Wigger, M.D., Director

Preventive Cardiology:
Emily Kurtz, M.D., Director

Women's Cardiology:
Lisa Mendes, M.D., Director

Cardiac Surgery:
John Byrne, M.D., Chairman, Department of Cardiac Surgery

Inpatient Services:
Keith Churchwell, M.D., Director

Outpatient Services:
Waleed Irani, M.D., Director

Clinical Programs:
Tom Di Salvo, M.D., Medical Director

Quality:
Jeff Boord, M.D., Director

Vascular:
Thomas Naslund, M.D., Chief, Vascular Surgery

PHYSICIANS AND CLINICAL TEAM:

General Cardiology Program:
Doug Sawyer M.D.. Ph.D., Interim Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Michael Baker, M.D.
Benjamin Byrd III, M.D.
W. Bart Campbell, M.D.
Geoffrey Chidsey, M.D.
Andre Churchwell, M.D.
Keith Churchwell, M.D.
Julie Damp, M.D.
John Dixon, M.D.
Rand Frederiksen, M.D.
G. Christian Friesinger III, M.D.
Francis (Drew) Gaffney, M.D.
David Hansen, M.D.
Charles Hong, M.D., Ph.D.
Rob Hood, M.D.
Waleed Irani, M.D.
Marvin Kronenberg, M.D.
Lisa Mendes, M.D.
James Muldowney III, M.D.
Harry Page, M.D.
Adam Prudoff, M.D.
Mohan Sathyamoorthy, M.D.

Congestive Heart Failure Program/Transplant:
Thomas Di Salvo, M.D.
Allen Naftilan, M.D., Ph.D.
Henry Ooi, M.D.
Douglas Sawyer, M.D., Ph.D.
Mark Wigger, M.D.

Melissa Smith, ACNP-BC

Interventional Program:
David Zhao, M.D.

John Cleator, M.D., Ph.D.
Marshall Crenshaw, M.D.
Pete Fong, M.D.
Joseph Fredi, M.D.
Mark Glazer, M.D.
Henry Jennings III, M.D.
John McPherson, M.D.
Robert Piana, M.D.
Thomas Richardson, M.D.
Mark Robbins, M.D.
Joseph Salloum, M.D.
David Slosky, M.D.

Debbie Martin, ACNP-BC
Margaret Morrison, ACNP-BC
Deborah Payne, ACNP-BC
Holly Pierce, ANP-BC
Carol Scott, FNP-BC

Prevention Program:
Jeffrey Boord, M.D.
Sergio Fazio, M.D., Ph.D.
Emily Kurtz, M.D.
MacRae Linton, M.D.
David Maron, M.D.

Melanie Allison, APRN-BC
Beth Meador, CNS-BS
Cindy Osborne, RD, LDN, CDE

Cardiac Arrhythmia Program:
Dawood Darbar, M.D., Ph.D

Robert Abraham, M.D.
Walter Clair, M.D.
John Lee, M.D.
Dan Roden, M.D.
Katherine Murray, M.D.
Dan Roden, M.D.
Jeffrey Rottman, M.D.
Pablo Saavedra, M.D.
Mark Wathen, M.D.
Patrick Whalen, M.D.

Congenital Heart Program:
Benjamin Byrd III, M.D.
Larry Markham, M.D.

Vascular Program:
Thomas Naslund, M.D., Chief, Vascular Surgery

Colleen Brophy, M.D.
Jeffery Dattilo, M.D.
Raul Guzman, M.D.

Cardiac Surgery:
John Byrne, M.D., Chairman, Cardiac Surgery

Tarek Absi, M.D.
Rashid Ahmad, M.D.
Jorge Balaguer, M.D.
Steve Ball, M.D.
David Bichell, M.D.
Karla Christian, M.D.
James Greelish, M.D.
Steven Hoff, M.D.
Betty Kim, M.D.
Michael R. Petracek, M.D.

Michael C. Cilimberg, PA-C
Edmund J. Donahue, PA-C
Thomas M. Stahl, PA-C

Nora Cobb, APRN-BC
Anna Fong, APRN-BC
April Kapu, APRN-BC
Veronica Rowan, APRN-BC
Megan Shifrin, ACNP-BC
Sean Smithey, APRN-BC
Joshua Squiers, APRN-BC
Kristie Walker, APRN-BC
Brian Widmar, APRN-BC

Cardiac MRI:
Mark Lawson, M.D.
Jeffery Dendy, M.D.



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