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Profiles In Cardiology

BROWARD HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER
Ahmed F. Osman, MD
Vitalie Crudu, MD
Ahmed F. Osman, M.D., is the medical director of the
Interventional cardiologist Dr. Vitalie Crudu is the Cardiac Electrophysiology Lab at Broward Health Medical
Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at North Shore Center. He is also the associate program director of the car-
Medical Center in Miami where he leads staff in performing diology fellowship at Broward Health and has more than 20
minimally-invasive cardiology tests and procedures to pro- years of experience. Dr. Osman is board certified in cardi-
vide diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. ology and electrophysiology.
Crudu specializes in coronary artery disease, peripheral Dr. Osman has been instrumental in bringing the latest
arterial disease, valvular heart disease, hypertension and technology and clinical trials to Broward Health Medical
cardiomyopathies as well as primary and secondary preven- Center. In 2020, Broward Health Medical Center was the
tion. Dr. Crudu is certified by the American Board of first hospital to offer patients the next generation Watchman FLX Left Atrial
Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease, National Appendage Closure (LAAC) Implant.
Board of Echocardiography, Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Dr. Osamn is a principal investigator in several national and international multi-
Tomography and the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology. He joined the North center clinical studies. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology,
Shore Medical Center staff in 2013. Dr. Crudu has been practicing medicine since American Heart Association, the Heart Rhythm Society and European Society of
2003. For his education and training, Dr. Crudu completed an interventional cardi- Cardiology.
ology fellowship at Brown University, a cardiology fellowship at Geisinger Medical “What I love about cardiology is that with cardiac interventions you can often
Center, residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center, internship at Municipal Hospital relieve suffering and dramatically reduce symptoms for patient in very rapid and
“Sfântful Arhanghel Mihail” and graduated medical school from the State University measurable ways,” he said. “I also believe predictive, personalized and preventive
of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”. He is fluent in English Russian therapy will soon have a major role in reducing cardiovascular disease morbidity.”
and Romanian. Dr. Osman received his medical degree from Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt, and
completed his internal medicine residency at Norwalk Hospital/Yale University. Dr.
FLORIDA MEDICAL CENTER, A CAMPUS OF NORTH Osman completed a cardiology fellowship at Ochsner Medical Foundation in New
Orleans and a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at the University of
SHORE, AND NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.

Juan Velasquez, MD
Yordanka Reyna, MD
Dr. Juan Velasquez is a highly-skilled and experienced
interventional cardiologist on-staff at Florida Medical Yordanka Reyna, M.D., is the medical director of the
Center, a campus of North Shore located in Fort Lauderdale heart failure program at Broward Health Medical Center.
and North Shore Medical Center in Miami. Dr. Velasquez’s She is board certified in advanced heart failure and trans-
expertise is in the diagnosis, percutaneous management plant, cardiovascular disease, and internal medicine. Dr.
and catheter based treatment for various types of heart dis- Reyna received certification by the National Board of
ease. Dr. Velasquez specializes in interventional cardiology, Echocardiography in Adult Transthoracic Plus
structural heart disease, coronary angioplasty, peripheral Transesophageal Echocardiography.
vascular disease, transcatheter aortic valve replacement Dr. Reyna specializes in cardiomyopathies, heart failure,
(TAVR) as well as aortic and mitral valve disease. In addition, Dr. Velasquez’s areas of cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support,
interest include ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) treatment for heart pulmonary hypertension, echocardiography, cardiac care of
artery blockages which cause serious heart attacks. He also has a special interest in women and cardiopulmonary stress testing.
preventive cardiology to help patients lower their risk of heart disease. Dr. Velasquez “I am excited that in cardiology we can now do more minimally invasive proce-
is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in cardiovascular disease, dures that can improve patient’s lifestyle and their quality of life,” she said. “The
interventional cardiology and internal medicine, and completed fellowship-training MitraClip procedure is a perfect example of one of the latest breakthrough technolo-
in cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology. He has been practicing gies in cardiac care which allows us to repair the mitral valve with a minimally inva-
medicine since 2000 and is bilingual in English and Spanish. sive procedure.”
Dr. Reyna received her medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in
Dominica, West Indies. She completed her internal medicine residency and cardiol-
FLORIDA MEDICAL CENTER ogy fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston, Florida. She did an advanced

heart failure and transplant fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland,
Steven A. Plato, MD Ohio. Dr. Reyna is a professional member of the American College of Cardiology,
Heart Failure Society of America, and The International Society for Heart and Lung
Dr. Steven A. Plato is on staff at Florida Medical Center. Transplantation.
He is a cardiothoracic surgeon providing adult cardiac, aor-
tic and endovascular surgery care. Dr. Plato specializes in
aortic aneurysm treatment, aortic root reconstruction, aor-
tic valve surgery and mitral valve surgery, as well as coro-
nary artery bypass grafting (CABG). In addition, Dr. Plato
focuses on endovascular aortic surgery procedures includ-
ing thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) and tran-
scatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). He is certified in
vascular surgery by the American Board of Surgery and
board-eligible in cardiothoracic surgery. For his education and training, Dr. Plato
completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Loma Linda University Medical
Center in Loma Linda, CA. In addition, Dr. Plato served as administrative chief resi-
dent (2016-2017) during his five-year integrated vascular surgery residency at
University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Plato finished his basic surgery internship at the University of Florida College of
Medicine in Gainesville, FL. He graduated medical school from Michigan State
University, College of Human Medicine, located in East Lansing, MI.

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