Attending Cardiologist
Residency: UMDNJ-Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Stratford; Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden, NJ
Fellowship Training: Cardiology and Clinical Electrophysiology, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases
Special Interests: Rhythm Disturbances, Electrophysiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Electrophysiology and Pacing
Associate Chief, Hospital Medicine and Inpatient Services
Residency: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Specialty Training: Internal Medicine
Board Certified: Internal Medicine
Special Interests:CHF, Device Therapy
Chair, Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Director, Pediatric Echocardiography
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ
Specialty Training: University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Board Certified: Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology
Special Interests:Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography
Awards: 2010 Top Doc for Kids by SJ Magazine, 2010 Best Children’s Physician by South Jersey Magazine, 2009 Top 100 Cardiologists in NJ by NJ Savvy Living Magazine Dec, 2009 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2009 Top Doc by SJ Magazine
Adjunct Staff Surgeon, Department of Surgery
Residency: Community General Hospital, Harrisburg, PA –General Surgery
Specialty Training: Deborah Heart and Lung Center – Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Board Certified: General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery
Special Interests: Cardiac Surgery, General Thoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care
Attending Cardiologist
Residency: Union Hospital/ ST. Barnabas Health Care System
Specialty Training: Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiology
Special Interest: Women and Heart Disease, Heart Disease in Special Populations, Echocardiography and CT Angiography
Adjunct Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Residency: State University of NY at Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY and University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Specialty Training: University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
Board Certified: General Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care Medicine
Special Interests: Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Adult Congenital Heart Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Director, Vascular Surgery
Residency: General Surgery-Staten Island University Hospital
Specialty Training: Staten Island University Hospital, Vascular Fellowship
Board Certified: General Surgery and Vascular Surgery
Special Interests: Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Awards: 2009 Rising Star Top Doc by Philadelphia Magazine, 2009 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2009 Top Doc SJ Magazine
Chair, Electromechanical Therapy Institute,
Electrophysiology and Pacing
Residency: Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
Specialty Training: Cardiology/Electrophysiology: Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Baystate Medical Center/Western Campus of Tufts, Springfield MA
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Special Interests: Expanding Indications for Device Therapy, Pacemakers, Defibrillators, Resynchronization Therapy, Heart Failure Therapy, Complex Ablation
Chair, Anesthesiology
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ
Specialty Training: Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ
Board Certified: Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Special Interests: Medical Acupuncture
Awards: 2009 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine
Assistant Vice President for Medical Affairs, Chair, Department of Radiology
Residency: Graduate Hospital/Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Board Certified: Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine
Special Interests: Cardiac CT and MRI imaging
Attending, Interventional Cardiology
Director of Clinical Research
Residency: Internal Medicine, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Specialty Training: Cardiology, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, Interventional Cardiology, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Endovascular Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Board Certified: Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine pending
Special Interests: Stem Cell Therapy in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Peripheral Arterial Disease
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Associate, Dept. of Electrophysiology
Residency: (Internal Medicine) Stratford, New Jersey
Specialty Training: (Cardiovascular Diseases) University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, (Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology) New York University Medical Center
Board Certified: Internal Medicine (ABIM), Cardiovascular Diseases (ABIM), board eligible for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (ABIM)
Special Interests: Atrial Fibrillation Ablation, Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation, Complex Arrhythmia Mapping and Ablation, Implantable Cardioverter/Defibrillators (ICD), Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Chair, Department of Endovascular Medicine
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Residency: Internal Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: Cardiology; Interventional Cardiology
Board Certified: Internal Medicine; Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Cardiology
Special Interest: Endovascular Medicine: Carotid Stenting; Endovascular Aneurysm Repair; Peripheral Vascular Intervention; Limb Salvage
Attending Pathologist
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ
Specialty Training: New York University Medical Center, NY
Board Certified: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Cytopathology
Special Interest: Pulmonary Non-Neoplastic and Neoplastic Pathology and Cardiovascular Pathology
Attending Physician, Hospitalist, Department of Cardiology
Residency: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: Internal Medicine
Board Certified: Internal Medicine
Chair, Pulmonary Medicine; Director, Institute for Sleep Medicine
Residency: Internal Medicine at Roger Williams Medical Center at Brown University
Specialty Training: Pulmonary, critical care, and sleep at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Board Certified: ABIM-Internal Medicine; ABIM-Pulmonary Medicine; ABIM-Critical Care; American Board of Sleep Medicine
Special Interests: Sleep Disorders; Complicated Asthma, especially in pregnancy; Critical Care Ethics.
Director of Outpatient Congestive Heart Failure Services
Attending Cardiologist, Department of Electrophysiology
Residency: Mercy Catholic Medical Center
Specialty Training: University of Pennsylvania, Cardiovascular Imaging
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Nuclear Medicine
Board Eligible: Echocardiogram
Special Interests: Congestive Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Imaging, Preventative Cardiovascular Disease Management
Vice President, Medical Affairs
Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Residency: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA
Specialty Training: University of Alabama Hospitals, Birmingham, AL
Board Certified: Surgery and Thoracic Surgery
Special Interests: Adult Congenital Heart Surgery, Coronary Heart Surgery, Valve Surgery
Awards: 2010 Top Doc Year in Review South Jersey Magazine, 2009 Top Doc by Philadelphia Magazine, 2009 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2008 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2008 Top Doc by SJ Magazine, 2007 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2007 Top Doc by SJ Magazine, 2006 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2006 Top Doc by SJ Magazine, 2004 Top Doc by Philadelphia Magazine
Associate Cardiologist
Residency: Pinnacle Health System, Harrisburg, PA
Specialty Training: Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Adult Echocardiography and TEE
Special Interests: Echocardiography, Clinical Cardiology
Associate, Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology
Residency: Internal Medicine, Union Hospital, St. Barnabas Healthcare System
Specialty Training: Cardiovascular Diseases, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Electrophysiology and Pacing, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases
Special Interests: Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators; Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Director of Noninvasive Cardiology
Attending Cardiologist
Residency: St. Luke’s Hospital-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
Specialty Training: St. Luke’s Hospital-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY, NY
Board Certified: Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases
Special Interests: Echocardiography, Special Competency in Echocardiography, American Society of Echocardiography
Chair, Emeritus, Department of Anesthesiology
Attending Anesthesiologist
Residency: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Specialty Training: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PA
Board Certified: Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Special Interests: Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, the Control of Coagulation during Open Heart Surgery, Anesthesia for the Patient with Valvular Dysfunction, Anesthesia for the Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease.
Awards: 2006 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2007 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, 2008 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine
Chair, Emeritus, Department of Pulmonary Medicine;
Director, Respiratory Care Services
Residency: Northern Ireland Fever Hospital, Ireland
Specialty Training: West Virginia University Medical Center, Morgantown, WV
Specialty Certification: Royal College of Physicians of London and United Kingdom, MRCP (UK)
Special Interests: Lung Cancer, Bullous Emphysema, Occupational Lung Disease, Respiratory Infections
Awards: 2007 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine
Attending Radiologist
Residency: New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, New York, NY
Board Certified: Diagnostic Radiology
Special Interests: Thoracic Radiology
Attending Anesthesiologist
Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ
Board Certified: Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Awards: 2008 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine
Attending Cardiologist
Residency: Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Specialty Training: Marshall University School of Medicine, Huntington, WV,
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Cardiology
Special Interests: Clinical Cardiology
Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Residency:Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Specialty Training: University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
Board Certified:Surgery and Thoracic Surgery
Special Interests: Valvular Heart Surgery, Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization (TMR) and non-Cardiac Thoracic Surgery
Awards: 2009 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine
Attending Pulmonologist
Residency: Philadelphia General Hospital, PA
Specialty Training: Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Special Interests: Asthma, COPD, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Sleep Disorders
Attending Anesthesiologist
Residency: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology
Specialty Training: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology
Board Certified: Anesthesiology, 1996
Special Interests: Medical Devices
Pirouz Parang, MD, FACC
Attending Cardiologist
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Residency: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, NJ
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, and Cardiovascular CT
Special Interests: Cardiac Imaging, Preventive Cardiology
Associate Cardiologist
Residency: Union Hospital, Union, NJ, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Specialty Training: Interventional Cardiology, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ
Board Certified: Cardiology, Internal Medicine
Special Interests: Interventional Cardiology
Attending Physician, Hospitalist, Department of Cardiology
Residency: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Specialty Training: Internal Medicine
Board Certified: Internal Medicine
Special Interests: Diabetes Management, Dyslipidemia
Awards: 2008 Top Doc by SJ Magazine, 2009 Top Doc SJ Magazine
Associate Cardiologist
Residency: Long Island College Hospital, NY
Specialty Training: Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, NY
Board Certified: American Board of Cardiovascular Diseases, Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology, Diplomate, National Board of Echocardiography.
Special Interests: 1. Cardiovascular Risk assessment and modification with particular attention to lipid management, obesity and hypertension management with integrated approach of combining medications with lifestyle modification and proven dietary supplementations and modifications. 2. Non-invasive cardiac imaging and coronary risk assessment including Nuclear Imaging studies, cardiac PET and cardiovascular CT. 3. Research assessing outcome modification and cost effective intervention strategies.
Associate Attending Vascular Surgeon
Residency: Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Specialty Training: General Surgery, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
Board Certified: Board Eligible
Special Interest: Endovascular treatments of vascular disease, venous disease, new technologies and techniques
Chair, Department of Pathology
Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: The Children’s Hospital/Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA
Board Certified: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Special Interests: Pediatric Pathology, Pulmonary Pathology
Awards: 2009 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine
Chair, Department of Cardiology
Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Hospitals
Specialty Training: Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology
Special Interest: Preventive Cardiology; management of complex cholesterol disorders and vascular disease risk
Faisal Shamshad, MD
Adjunct Associate, Division of Interventional Cardiology
Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Specialty Training: Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, FL; Non-Invasive Cardiology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Interventional Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, FL
Board Certified: Internal Medicine (ABIM); Cardiovascular Medicine (ABIM); Nuclear Cardiology (CBNC)
Special Interest: Acute Coronary Syndromes
Adjunct Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Residency: University of Rajasthan S.P. Medical College and P.B.M. Hospital, India
Specialty Training: State University of NY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Board Certification: General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery boards, India
Chief, Clinical and Consultative Cardiology
Residency: Atlantic City Hospital, NJ
Specialty Training: Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, Fellowship in Cardiology
Special Interest: Clinical Cardiology
Awards: 2008 Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine, voted one of NJ’s “Best Physicians” by “Nurses Choice” national survey
Pulmonary/Critical Care Attending
Attending, Dept. of Surgery
Residency: Internal Medicine, Univ. of North Carolina, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC
Specialty Training: Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine Fellowship -UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Critical Care Medicine
Special Interests: Cardiovascular Pathology, Post-op Cardiothoracic Surgical Critical Care, Asthma
Awards: Consumer’s Research Council-America's Top Physicians for 2009, Top Doc by South Jersey Magazine: Super Women in Medicine – December 2008, Consumer's Research Council-America's Top Physicians for 2003/2004