Vanderbilt Medical Center - Vanderbilt Heart in Nashville, TN

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

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