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Cardiology

BROWARD HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER BROWARD HEALTH NORTH

Kenneth Herskowitz, MD Faraaz Mushtaq, DO

Kenneth Herskowitz, MD, is Medical Director of Faraaz Mushtaq, D.O., is board certified in Internal
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Broward Health Medicine and Cardiology. Dr. Mushtaq has been on staff with
Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Heart Valve Broward Health since July 2013 and at Broward Health North
Clinic and Structural Heart Program. since May 2017.
He received his medical degree from Baylor College of He completed his cardiovascular fellowship training at
Medicine in Houston, Texas. His internship and residency in Broward Health Medical Center where he was Chief
General Surgery was also at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Cardiology Fellow and awarded fellow of the year. Prior to
Herskowitz did his in Cardiothoracic Surgery training at the that he completed his Internal Medicine residency training at
University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center. He Palmetto General Hospital.
was Chief of cardiac surgery at Miami VA medical center from A native of the Midwest, Dr. Mushtaq has completed his
1994-1997. Bachelor’s in Health Information Management while at the same time earning his minor
Dr. Herskowitz has performed more than 8,000 cardiovascular surgical procedures and in Biology at St. Louis University. He then went on to earn his medical degree at Nova
is a leading expert in the field of minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve surgery, as Southeastern University.
well as beating heart surgery. He is the principal investigator on numerous research proj- Dr. Mushtaq is a member of the AOA, ACOI and the ACC.
ects and has lectured and published extensively on heart and lung surgery.
He has consistently had one of the lowest morbidities and mortalities in the state of Danish Sheikh, DO
Florida as well as in the United States.
Dr. Herskowitz was honored as the American Heart Association’s 2007 Honoree for Danish Sheikh, D.O., is board certified in Internal Medicine
Outstanding Contributions to Cardiac Surgery in South Florida. He has been recognized and Cardiology. Dr. Sheikh joined Broward Health North in
as a Gold Coast Magazine Top Doctor from 2008 through 2017. In 2010, Broward October 2017. He completed his cardiovascular fellowship
General was recognized as a Highest performing Cardiac Surgery Hospital.
training at Broward Health Medical Center where he was
Chief Cardiology Fellow. Prior to that he completed his
Ahmed F. Osman, MD, FACC, FESC, Internal Medicine residency training at Largo Medical Center
FHRS, FASE where he served as Chief Resident and was awarded Resident
of the Year. A native New Yorker, Dr. Sheikh has completed
his Bachelor’s in Psychology while at the same time earning
Ahmed F. Osman, MD, is a board certified cardiologist/elec-
trophysiologist and the Medical Director of Clinical Cardiac minors in Chemistry and Middle Eastern Studies from New York University. He then
Electrophysiology laboratories at Broward Health Medical went on to earn his medical degree at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Center since 2005. Dr. Sheikh is a member of the AOA, ACOI and the ACC.
Dr. Osman received his medical degree from Cairo
University in Cairo, Egypt, and completed his internal medi-
cine residency at Norwalk Hospital/Yale University. Dr. Osman CLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA
completed a Cardiology Fellowship at Ochsner Medical
Foundation in New Orleans and a Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at the Yordanka Reyna, MD
University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Osman serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Nova University, Florida Yordanka Reyna, M.D., is a staff cardiologist with the Robert
International University and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and is a and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular
Member of the Broward Health Foundation Board. Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Florida. Her clinical specialties
Dr. Osman is fellow and member of multiple national and international cardiovascular include heart failure, cardiomyopathies, cardiac transplanta-
and electrophysiology societies. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, tion, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiopulmonary
member and Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography, member of the stress testing.
Clinical Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Society As a heart failure and transplant cardiologist in the Heart
of Nuclear Cardiology and The Heart Rhythm Society and the European Society of Transplant Program at Cleveland Clinic Florida, Dr. Reyna
Cardiology. His clinical expertise covers advanced ablation therapies for cardiac rhythm provides patients with quality care and educational tools to
abnormalities, particularly atrial fibrillation, left atrial appendage closure devices as alter- maintain a healthy heart. The Heart Transplant Program was developed in close collabo-
native to anticoagulants and all cardiac device surgeries including lead extractions. ration with Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which has been ranked for more than 20 years by
Dr. Osman has co-authored many medical publications and medical abstracts and US News & World Report as one of the top hospitals in the nation for heart and vascular
serves as the principal investigator in many national multicenter research studies. For the services.
sixth consecutive year, Dr. Osman has been recognized as one of Gold Coast Magazine’s An undergraduate at the University of Miami, Dr. Reyna graduated with high honors
Top Doctors in the region. Dr. Osman is fluent in Arabic, Spanish, Italian and French. from Ross University School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency
at Cleveland Clinic Florida. Her advanced training includes a cardiovascular disease fel-
lowship and a heart failure and cardiac transplantation fellowship, both completed at
Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Dr. Reyna is board certified by the ABIM in cardiovascular dis-
eases and by the National Board of Echocardiography.

Viviana Navas, MD

Viviana Navas, M.D., is a board-certified cardiologist with
Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Robert and Suzanne Tomsich
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, and the medical
director of the of the Heart Transplant team. Based on the
Weston campus of the academic medical center, Dr. Navas
specializes in advanced heart failure therapies, heart trans-
plant, mechanical circulatory support devices, right heart
catheterization, endomyocardial biopsies, cardiomyopathies,
pulmonary hypertension and echocardiography.
Dr. Navas earned her medical degree at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota,
Colombia. Her advanced training included an internal medicine residency and a cardiol-
ogy fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Florida, where she was a chief fellow. She also com-
pleted a heart failure and transplant fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in
Cleveland, OH. She is a member of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart
Association, Heart Failure Society of America, and the International Society of Heart and
Lung Transplantation.

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