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Cardiology

JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL HIALEAH HOSPITAL

Ming-Lon Young, MD Francisco Dieguez, MD

Dr. Ming-Lon Young provides care for children with heart Dr. Francisco Dieguez is an interventional cardiologist
arrhythmias and adults with congenital heart issues. who is a member if the medical staff at Hialeah Hospital. His
Throughout his career, he has pioneered cardiac ablation ther- areas of interest are nuclear cardiology imaging and
apy for children, a procedure that modifies or eliminates the echocardiographic interpretation. Dr. Dieguez has per-
abnormal tissue in the heart that is causing an irregular formed more than one-thousand cardiac catherizations, per-
rhythm. He has performed close to 2,000 cases with positive cutaneous interventions and transophageal echocardio-
outcomes. grams throughout his career. He completed his fellowship at
In addition to clinical work, he lectures and publishes Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is a graduate of
extensively about pediatric cardiac arrhythmias, including Universidad central del Este, Dominican Republic and of
mapping and ablation, and sudden cardiac death in children. Dr. Young earned a Florida International University. He is a member of the American Medical Association
Bachelor of Medicine degree from National Taiwan University School of Medicine, and and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
received a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He completed two fellowships at the University of Miami Javier Reyna, MD
School of Medicine – one in pediatric cardiology and the other in pediatric cardiac elec-
trophysiology. Dr. Young is a certified cardiac device specialist and a Fellow of the Heart Dr. Javier Reyna is a member of the medical staff at
Rhythm Society.
Hialeah Hospital. He is Board Certified in Internal
Medicine, Cardiology, Echocardiogram and Nuclear
Cardiology. Dr. Reyna did an Internal Medicine and
Cardiology fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He
NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER
graduated from the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of
Santiago de Cuba. Dr. Reyna is an award recipient of the
Louis Carnendran, MD Paul J. Furlong in Internal Medicine. Dr. Reyna has been
published in The Journal of Heart Disease. He is a member
Dr. Louis Carnendran is an interventional cardiologist of the American Medical Association and the American
who is a member of the medical staff of North Shore College of Physicians. His interests are reading, teaching, travel and sports.
Medical Center. He specializes in catheter based treat-
ment of coronary artery disease, including coronary
interventions using the highly specialized techniques of PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL
angioplasty/stents, intracoronary ultrasound, coronary
thrombectomy and coronary atherectomy. He is board
certified as a diplomate in cardiovascular diseases, inter- Efren Buitrago, MD
ventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology, echocardiogra-
phy and internal medicine. Dr. Carnendran was the Dr. Efren Buitrago is the Medical Director of the
Director of Interventional Cardiology and Program Vascular Institute at Palmetto General Hospital. Dr.
Director of the Interventional Cardiology fellowship at Buitrago specializes in cardiothoracic surgery and periph-
the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL (2006-2009) and has eral vascular surgery. He obtained his medical degree at
been a clinical investigator in many heart disease research studies. He is also well the Universidad Nacional de Columbia and completed his
published in various American and European cardiology journals. residency and fellowship in General Surgery at Jackson
Memorial Hospital. Dr. Buitrago’s areas of interest and
expertise include vascular surgery, endovascular surgery
Vitalie Crudu, MD
and thoracic surgery. He has participated in many presen-
tations and has had several scientific studies published. He is a member of the
Dr. Vitalie Crudu is an interventional cardiologist on American College of Surgeons, the American Medical Association, the
the medical staff at North Shore Medical Center where Cardiothoracic Surgery Network, and the American College of Chest physicians.
he has served as the director of the cardiac catheteriza-
tion lab since 2015. He received the “Physician of the
Year” award at North Shore in 2015. Hans Rutzen Lopez, MD
Dr. Crudu is board certified in internal Medicine, car-
diology, interventional cardiology, echocardiography, Dr. Hans Rutzen Lopez is a cardiologist that is a member of the medical staff at
cardiovascular computed tomography, and nuclear car- Palmetto General Hospital. He received his medical degree from NYU School of
diology. He completed his residency in internal medi- Medicine. He was a fellow at Boston University Medical Center in Cardiovascular
cine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. His subspecialties are general cardi-
PA. He completed a cardiology fellowship at Geisinger ology, cardiac electrophysiology and echo. He is a member of the American Board of
Medical Center in Danville, PA, and an interventional Internal Medicine certified in Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Cardiac Electro -
cardiology fellowship at Brown University in Providence, RI. He is trilingual in physiology and Internal Medicine. He also speaks multiple languages, including
English, Russian, and Romanian. Dr. Crudu has been practicing medicine since 2003. Spanish and Portuguese. In his spare, time he enjoys spending time with his family.

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