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Cardiology

HOLY CROSS MEDICAL GROUP HEARTWELL, LLP

Rishi Anand, MD, FACC, FHRS Fernando Mera, MD, FACC

Dr. Rishi Anand serves as medical director of the electro- Dr. Fernando Mera, a cardiologist with HeartWell LLP
physiology lab at Holy Cross Hospital. He is certified in car- and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology,
diovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology earned his medical degree at Universidad de la Republica
by the American Board of Internal Medicine. His focus areas of Uruguay-School of Medicine. He completed his residen-
include clinical cardiac electrophysiology, atrial fibrillation, cy at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, his Cardiology
arrhythmia, syncope, fainting spells, palpitations, skipped- Fellowship at the University of South Florida and Clinical
beats, atrial flutter, SVT, WPW-syndrome, ventricular tachy- Cardiac Electrophysiology at Emory University.
cardia, pacemakers, defibrillators, and heart failure devices. Dr. Mera is also a skilled electrophysiologist whose
Dr. Anand is a member of the American Association of expertise includes catheter-based ablation of complex
Physicians of Indian Origin, the editorial board of EP Lab Digest, Heart Rhythm arrhythmias as well as device-based therapy for manage-
Society, and the American College of Cardiology, for which he serves as chair of the ment of heart failure.
Florida chapter’s payer relations and healthcare economics committee. He completed Dr. Mera served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University and
a fellowship in electrophysiology at University of Maryland and his residency in inter- Directory of the Arrhythmia Center at Downtown Emory Hospital. He practices at
nal medicine at the Louisiana State Health Sciences Center. He received his medical Baptist Hospital of Miami.
degree from Louisiana State University Medical School, and his bachelor’s degree from
Johns Hopkins University. Damian Chaupin, MD

Daniel Weitz, MD, FHRS Dr. Damian Chaupin, a cardiologist with HeartWell,
LLP, earned his medical degree from Boston University
Dr. Daniel Weitz, M.D., FHRS, is a clinical cardiac electro- School of Medicine. He completed his Clinical Fellowship
physiologist specializing in ablation for atrial fibrillation, in Cardiovascular Disease at Columbia University-NY
supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia. Presbyterian Hospital and his residency in Internal
Dr. Weitz also specializes in management of atrial fibrilla- Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
tion, including implantation of the WATCHMANTM device, Dr. Chaupin is involved in research at the
as well as in heart failure devices such as pacemakers and Cardiovascular Research Center of South Florida. He is
defibrillators. He is board certified in clinical cardiac elec- board certified by the Certification Board of Nuclear
trophysiology and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Weitz Cardiology, Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and the
received his training at New York University School of National Board of Echocardiography. Dr. Chaupin practices at Baptist Hospital of
Medicine and at the Columbia University School of Medicine in New York. He is the Miami, West Kendall Baptist, and South Miami Hospital.
co-medical director of the electrophysiology lab at Holy Cross Hospital. Dr. Weitz also
is an affiliated assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami and the Alvaro Gomez, MD
course co-director of the EKG curriculum for the internal medicine program at the
University of Miami.
Dr. Alvaro Gomez, a Fellow of the American College of
Cardiology, is a well-respected interventional cardiologist
at HeartWell, LLP. He is skilled at the use of nuclear imag-
ing techniques for the non-invasive study of cardiovascu-
lar disease, such as myocardial perfusion imaging, planar
imaging, SPECT (single-photon-emission computed
PALM BEACH GARDENS MEDICAL CENTER tomography), and infarction imaging. He is certified by
the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and is board
Richard Faro, MD certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and
interventional cardiology, as well.
Dr. Richard S. Faro is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon who Dr. Gomez treats a wide range of cardiovascular diseases with particular attention
founded Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center’s Heart to prevention and management (both medical and interventional) of coronary artery
Institute more than 30 years ago. Dr. Faro has authored sev- disease, congestive heart failure, and valvular heart disease. He also has a particular
eral articles for multiple medical publications and previous- interest in cardio-oncology treating a wide range of cardiac problems related to the
ly served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the management of cancer patients.
University of Florida, as well as, a Clinical Instructor at He received his medical degree from the University of Panama and completed his
Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois and Creighton residency training in internal medicine at Montreal General Hospital/McGill
University in Omaha, Nebraska. His areas of interest University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Gomez completed clinical and research fellow-
include all aspects of Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic ships at hospitals in Montreal and at New England Medical Center/Tufts University
Surgery, along with the TAVR procedures. Dr. Faro earned in Boston.
his medical degree from Creighton University School of He is fluent in English and Spanish and practices at the Cardiovascular Center of
Medicine. He then went on to complete his fellowship in cardiac and thoracic surgery, South Florida, Baptist Hospital of Miami and Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute.
followed by a fellowship in vascular surgery, at Rush University Medical Center. Dr.
Faro is board certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, the American
Board of Surgery in both general surgery and general vascular surgery and the
American Board of Phlebology.
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Nishant Patel, MD

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