Meet Our Physicians and Leadership

About the Heart Hospital

Meet Our Leadership and Physicians

Our skilled physicians and supportive leadership teams allow us to propel cardiovascular care forward and provide quality, compassionate care to our patients.

Board of Managers

George McCleskey

Chairman

Kyle Armstrong

Sarah Gahm, MHA

John Meindl

Steve Newton

Rohit Parmar, MD

Patient Safety Officer (Dallas)

Trent Pettijohn, MD, FACC

Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs

John Pierce

Srinivasa Potluri, MD

Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine (Plano), ACGME Program Director Interventional Cardiology Services Education (Plano), MSA Regional Medical Director (Lake Pointe & Centennial)

Michael Sanborn

Adam R. Shapira, MD

Medical Director – Electrophysiology Medicine (Plano)

Robert L. Smith, II, MD

Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery (Plano), MSA Regional Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery Program (Irving)

Robert Stoler, MD

Co-Director of Cardiology, Medical Director – Interventional Cardiology (Dallas)

Molly Szerlip, MD

Regional Director – Structural Heart Programs, Associate Medical Director Education & Research, Program Director Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program, Co-Program Director Structural Heart Fellowship Program, Medical Director of TAVR Inpatient Services

Robin Watson, MD

Administrative Leadership

Mark Valentine

President

J. Michael DiMaio, MD, FACS, FAHA

Chief of Staff

Trent Pettijohn, MD, FACC

Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs

Suzanne Wills, MBA

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, The Heart Hospital Medical Group

Suzanne Krais, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CCRN-K

Regional Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Services

Trey Wicke

Regional Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance

John Litton

Vice President of Human Resources Strategic Business Services

Brad Morgan, MBA

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer – Plano

Brad McCall, JD

President – Frisco, Denton, McKinney and Corinth

Eli Smith, FACHE

President – Dallas, Fort Worth and Waxahachie

Eleanor Huff, MSN, RN, FACC

Vice President, Cardiovascular Service Line Operations

Katherine Carter, MHA, FACHE

Vice President of Operations – Frisco and McKinney

Parker Beasley, MSHA, MBA

Vice President of Operations – Denton and Corinth

Philip Boettcher, DNP, RN, NEA-BC

Chief Nursing Officer – Dallas, Fort Worth and Waxahachie

Sabrina Johnson

Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer – Dallas, Fort Worth and Waxahachie

Sherri Cruzan, MBA, HCA, BSN, RN, RCES

Vice President of Patient Care Services – Denton, McKinney and Corinth

Physician Partners

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Aasim M. Afzal, MD, MBA, FACC, FHFSA

Medical Director Medical Mechanical Circulatory Services

Abdul Basit, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI

Abraham Jacob, MD, FACC

Aditi Nayak, MD

Ahad M. Hassan, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Akash Rusia, MD

Alan S. Donsky, MD

Albert Carl Henry III, MD

Co-Medical Director – Quality-Cardiovascular Surgery Services (Dallas)

Aldo E. Rafael-Yarihuaman, MD

Medical Director – The Hispanic Institute, Surgical Director of Structural Heart (Dallas)

Alexander Sbrocchi, MD

Ali M. Kizilbash, MD, FACC

Ali A. Mithani, MD

Ali F. Yousif, MD

ACGME Core Faculty – Cardiology (Plano)

Amarinder S. Bindra, MD

Ambarish Gopal, MD, FACC

Amena Hussain, MD, FACC, FHRS

Amit Manhas, MD

Amro Alsaid, MD, FACC, FASE, FSCMR, FSCCT

Medical Director – Advanced Cardiovascular CT & MRI Imaging Programs (Plano)

Amyn Malik, MD

Anandita Kulkarni, MD, FACC

Regional Medical Director – Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Cardio-Obstetrics (Plano)

Anas Hamadeh, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Andrew Binder, MD

Andrew B. Nguyen, MD

Regional Medical Director & Chairman of Thoracic Surgery Services (Plano)

Anita R. Krueger, MD, FACS

Surgical Director of Structural Heart (Fort Worth)

Anthony (Dong Hi) Yoon, MD

Anumeha Tandon, MD

Arash M. Shirvani, MD, FACS, RPVI

Arjun Nair, MD

Azizul Rehman, MD

Balaji A. Veerappan, MD, FACC

Baron L. Hamman, MD

Bertram L. Smith, MD, FACS

Medical Director – Vascular Laboratory (Dallas), ACGME Core Faculty – Vascular Surgery (Plano)

Biren Parikh, MD, FACC

Bradley R. Grimsley, MD, FACS

Branden A. Snyder, MD

Brian T. Blatt, DO, FACC, FHRS, CCDS

Brian H. Hsi, MD, FACC

Brian G. Schwartz, MD, FACC

Brijesh M. Patel, MD, FACC

Bruce S. Bowers, MD, FACC

Cara A. East, MD, FACC, FACP, FAPCR

Carlos P. Cruz, MD

Carlos E. Velasco, MD, FACC

Coordinator of Cardiology Quality Assurance and Peer Review (Dallas)

Cesar Guerrero-Miranda, MD, FACC, FAST

Chadi Dib, MD, FACC, FSCAI

GME Core Faculty – Peripheral (Plano)

Charles S. Roberts, MD, FACS

Christopher B. Cianci, DO

Medical Director – Cardiac Catheterization Lab (Denton)

Christopher J. French, MD, PhD

Christopher L. Henry, MD, RPVI

Cole Tunnell, MD

Courtney M. Campbell, MD, PhD

Medical Director – Cardiology – Oncology Program (Dallas)

Crystal A. Bujold, DO, FACC

Daniel R. Gilada, MD

Daniel S. Ong, MD

Dat T. Nguyen, DO, RPVI

David L. Brown, MD, FACC, FACP, FSCAI

David F. Davis, MD

David N. Edwards, MD, PhD

David A. Engleman, MD

David M. Lofthus, MD

Medical Director – Genetic Research (Plano)

David O. Moore, MD

Patient Safety Champion (Plano)

David A. Rawitscher, MD, FACC

Medical Director – Congestive Heart Failure Clinics (Plano), MSA Regional Medical Director (Lake Pointe & Centennial)

David A. Schwartz, MD

Deepika Gopal MD, FACC, FASE

Dennis R. Gable, MD, FACS, DFSVS, RVT

Chairman – Vascular Services (Plano), Associate CMO-VP Medical Staff Affairs (Plano), Associate Program Director – Vascular Surgery Residency/Fellowship Program, MSA Regional Medical Director (Lake Pointe & Centennial)

Dhiren L. Shah, MD, FACC

Donald D. Wurzburg, MD

Eitan Podgaetz, MD, MPH

Eric J. Eichhorn, MD

Erica A.K. Davanian, DO, RPVI

Ermias A. Sori, DO, FACC, RPVI

Fahmi J. Farah, MD

Faisal Wahid, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Faizan Iftikhar, MD, FACC, FACP

Farah Al-Saffar, MD

Farhana Kazi, MD, FACC

Fayak S. Kamili, MD

Fayaz Syed Raza, MD

Felix A. Thomas, MD

Franklin S. Yau, MD, RPVI

Fred S. Lee, MD

G. Kimble Jett, MD

Gary P. Fazio, MD, FACC

Gary S. Schwartz, MD

Gautam B. Reddy, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI

George A. Heberton, MD

George S. Khammar, MD

Medical Director – Structural Heart Program (Fort Worth)

George J. Pearl, MD, FACS

Medical Director – Thoracic Outlet Center (Dallas)

Georges A. Feghali, MD, FACC

Gopala K. B. Rao, MD, MRCP

Greg P. Milligan, MD, MPH

ACGME Core Faculty – Heart Failure (Plano)

Hafiza H. Khan, MD, FACC, FHRS

Haider T. Nazeer, MD

Howard (Hao-Yu) Ren, MD, FACC

Haojie Wang, MD, PhD

Medical Director – Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging MRI/CT Program (Dallas)

Helen Hashemi, MD

Hema L. Korlakunta, MD, FACC

Imran Baig, MD

Medical Director – Cardiology Services (BSW Lake Pointe), ACGME Core Faculty – Interventional Cardiology (Plano)

Injoon Lee, MD

J. Michael DiMaio, MD, FACS, FAHA

Chief of Staff, Medical Director of Graduate & Post Graduate Training and Publication (Plano), MSA Regional Chief of Staff (Irving), MSA Regional Medical Director (Lake Pointe & Centennial)