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Profiles In Cardiology

TENET FLORIDA CARDIOVASCULAR CARE (TFCC) TENET FLORIDA PHYSICIAN SERVICES –
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
Houman Khalili, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Ricardo Machado, MD, FACC
Dr. Houman Khalili is an interventional cardiologist special-
izing in structural heart disease in Delray Beach. His office is Dr. Ricardo Machado is an award-winning cardiologist
located in Delray Medical Center Tower, and he is on staff at with nearly four decades of experience in the diagnosis, pre-
Delray Medical Center. Dr. Khalili’s expertise includes tran- vention and management of cardiovascular disease and
scatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), mitral valve inter- heart disorders. As an integral part of the Tenet Florida
ventions (MitraClip®), left atrial appendage closure Physician Services cardiology practice located on the cam-
(Watchman™), chronic total occlusions (CTO), hypertrophic pus of Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah, Dr. Machado
cardiomyopathy, and cardiovascular research and education. specializes in echocardiography testing, stress testing and
He has numerous publications, book chapters, and has pre- the treatment of congestive heart failure. In addition, Dr.
sented at multiple national meetings. He is board certified in Machado’s areas of interest include the treatment of heart
cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal arrhythmias, hypertension, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease (CAD),
Medicine. Before joining Tenet Florida Physician Services (TFPS), he was as an assistant myocardial infarction or heart attack, angina and endocarditis.
professor at VA North Texas, UT Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center in Dallas, TX. Dr. Machado is chief, section of cardiology and director of the echocardiogram lab
He completed fellowship-training in structural heart at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, at Palmetto General Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Internal
MI, and fellowships in interventional cardiology and general cardiology at UTSW. He Medicine with an additional sub-specialty in cardiovascular diseases and is fellow-
completed his internal medicine residency and medical school at UTSW. ship-trained in cardiology. Additionally, Dr. Machado is a fellow, American College of

Cardiology. He is bilingual in English and Spanish. During his medical career, Dr.
Saurabh Sanon, MD, FACC Machado has been awarded the American Medical Association Recognition Award,
American Heart Association Distinguished Recognition Award and the Palmetto
Dr. Saurabh Sanon, an interventional cardiologist, special- General Hospital Utilization Management Award.
izes in a wide-variety of transcatheter therapies for structural
and valvular heart diseases. Dr. Sanon has vast experience in Miguel Diaz, MD, FACC, FSCAI
transcatheter mitral valve repair with the use of the
MitraClip®, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) Dr. Miguel Diaz, a clinical and interventional cardiologist,
and transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion with the regularly helps very ill patients needing an alternative to
Watchman™ device as well as transcatheter paravalvular leak open-heart surgery with expert interventional cardiology
(PVL) closure, transcatheter ASD/PFO closure. He is certified care via an array of complex coronary and valvular inter-
in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology by the ventions for structural heart disease. Dr. Diaz has an office
American Board of Internal Medicine and certified in nuclear on the campus of Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah and
cardiology by the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology. His office is located in Palm was recently named medical director of the Structural Heart
Beach Gardens on the campus of Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center where Dr. Sanon Program at the hospital. Over the past several years, Dr.
is the medical director of the Structural Heart Transcatheteter Therapies program. In Diaz has specialized in transcatheter aortic valve replace-
addition, Dr. Sanon is the principal investigator of the TRILUMINATE Pivotal Trial at ment (TAVR) and last year, with addition of his colleague
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, a cardiac research trial aimed to study the utility of Dr. Marquand Patton, Jr., began performing a high-volume of the TAVR procedure.
using the TriClip device for patients with severe symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation. Since 2016, Dr. Diaz has performed the MitraClip® procedure, a less-invasive treat-

ment option for people with a mitral valve regurgitation ailment. Additionally, Dr.
TENET FLORIDA PHYSICIAN SERVICES – Diaz and Dr. Patton, Jr., together with an electrophysiologist, have also begun
PALM BEACH COUNTY implanting the WATCHMAN™ Device, a permanent implant designed to close the
left atrial appendage in the heart in an effort to reduce the risk of stroke caused by
non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AFib).
Craig Vogel, DO, FACC, FACP
TENET FLORIDA PHYSICIAN SERVICES –
Dr. Craig Vogel is a cardiologist providing care for the
Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens areas at his office located at SOUTH FLORIDA HEART INSTITUTE
500 University Blvd., in the Abacoa community of Jupiter. He
is on-staff at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. This past Benjamin Ravaee, MD
September, Dr. Vogel was instrumental in saving a Bahamian
man’s life while on a medical mission shortly after Hurricane Dr. Benjamin Ravaee is a cardiologist specializing in the
Dorian. Dr. Vogel responded to the ship captain's call for assis- diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias including atrial fib-
tance, helped to stabilize the patient and was airlifted by the rillation (AFib) which is an irregular heart rhythm originat-
U.S. Coast Guard along with the patient to a trauma hospital ing from the top chambers of the heart, coronary artery dis-
in Miami. Dr. Vogel specializes in clinical cardiology, exercise stress testing, echocardio- ease, congestive heart failure and preventive cardiology. In
graphy, stress echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. He is certified by the American addition, Dr. Ravaee provides cardiac testing for heart ail-
Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases, Certification Board of Nuclear ments using echocardiography and transesophageal
Cardiology and has an additional certification in Cardiac CT Level 2 Training. Dr. Vogel echocardiography, as well as nuclear cardiology.
has been practicing medicine since 1990. Dr. Ravaee’s cardiology office is located at the South

Florida Heart Institute in Delray Beach and he is on-staff at
Matthew Klein, MD Delray Medical Center. Dr. Ravaee is certified in
Cardiovascular Disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine and additionally
Dr. Matthew Klein is a cardiologist specializing in electro- he holds a certification with the National Board of Echocardiography. For his educa-
physiology, a sub-specialty of cardiology focusing on the man- tion and training, Dr. Ravaee completed a cardiovascular medicine fellowship at
agement and treatment of electric disorders and arrhythmias University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University,
affecting the heart. As an electrician of the heart, Dr. Klein spe- Cleveland, OH, an internal medicine residency and internship at Medical College of
cializes in the implantation of cardiac devices including Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, WI, and medical school at the University
implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), subcutaneous of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine.
ICD, pacemaker procedures, left atrial appendage closure
devices and techniques, cardiac resynchronization therapy,
treatment of atrial fibrillation (AFib), ablation of complex
arrhythmias including ventricular tachycardia and supraventricular tachycardia, hybrid ••••••••••••••••••••••••
ablation for AFib and tilt table testing. Dr. Klein is certified in cardiac electrophysiology
and cardiovascular disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine. In addition, Dr. Visit us online at
Klein is fellowship-trained in cardiac electrophysiology and general cardiology. He is a
member of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology. Since
2010, Dr. Klein’s cardiology and electrophysiology office is located in the Palm Beach www.southfloridahospitalnews.com
Gardens area. Dr. Klein is on-staff at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.

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