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., Executive Medical Director, Clinical Services
Thomas Di Salvo, M.D., Executive Medical Director, Quality and Safety
Outpatient Services:
Waleed Irani, M.D., Director
Clinical Programs:
Keith Churchwell, M.D., Executive Medical Director, Clinical Services
Thomas Di Salvo, M.D., Executive Medical Director, Quality and Safety
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., 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.
Ken Monahan, M.D.
James Muldowney III, M.D.
Harry Page, M.D.
Adam Prudoff, M.D.
Congestive Heart Failure Program/Transplant:
Douglas Sawyer, M.D. Ph.D, Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Thomas Di Salvo, M.D., MPH, Director, Advanced Heart Failure
Allen Naftilan, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Director, Heart Failure Program
Henry Ooi, M.D.
Mark Wigger, M.D., Director, Heart Transplantation
Interventional Program:
David Zhao, M.D.; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Interventional Cardiology
Ahmad Abu-Halimah, M.D.
Jayant Bagai, 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:
Emily Kurtz; Director, Prevention Program
Jeffrey Boord, M.D.
Sergio Fazio, M.D., Ph.D.
MacRae Linton, M.D.
David Maron, M.D.
Uche Sampson, M.D., M.P.H.
Beth Meador, APRN-BC
Cindy Osborne, RD, LDN, CDE
Cardiac Arrhythmia Program:
Dawood Darbar, M.D., Ph.D; Director, Vanderbilt Arrhythmia Service
Robert Abraham, M.D.
Walter Clair, M.D.
Christopher Ellis, 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.
Patrick Whalen, M.D.
Whitney Reynolds, PA-C
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
Shawn Lee, ACNP-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.; Radiology Director, Cardiovascular MRI
Jeffrey Dendy, M.D.
"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.
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
