Nationally Recognized Cardiac Care

Our nationally-recognized heart and vascular program is led by Dr. Richard Shlofmitz, Catholic Health and St. Francis Hospital Chairman of Cardiology, and a dedicated and compassionate team of cardiology experts in multiple disciplines.

St. Francis Heart Center

In addition to Long Island's most awarded heart program at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center® in Roslyn, NY, you can find excellence in heart and vascular care at St. Francis Heart Center locations across Long Island.

Cardiology Leadership

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Richard Shlofmitz, MD

Chair, Cardiovascular Service Line at Catholic Health; Chair, Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

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Newell Robinson, MD

Chair, Cardiac Surgery Clinical Service Line at Catholic Health; Chair, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Co-Director, Structural Heart Program at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Cardiothoracic & Interventional Endovascular Surgery Leadership

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Newell Robinson, MD

Chair, Cardiac Surgery Clinical Service Line at Catholic Health; Chair, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Co-Director, Structural Heart Program at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

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Albert DiMeo, MD

Vice Chair, Cardiothoracic Surgery at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

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Edward Lundy, MD

Surgical Director, Left Ventricular Assist Device and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program (LVAD/MCS) at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

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Lawrence Garcia, MD

Director, Endovascular Intervention and Vascular Medicine at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

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Lawrence Durban, MD

Chief, Thoracic Surgery at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

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Christopher La Mendola, MD

Chair, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Program at Good Samaritan University Hospital

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Timothy Carter, MD

Director, Aortic Surgery at Catholic Health

Medical Oncology Leadership

Larry Altschul

Larry Altschul, MD

Chief, Cardiology at Good Samaritan University Hospital

Thierry Duchatellier

Thierry Duchatellier, MD

Section Chief, Cardiology at Mercy Hospital

Interventional/Invasive Cardiology Leadership

George Petrossian

George Petrossian, MD

Director, Interventional Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Co-Director, Structural Heart Program at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Thomas Pappas

Thomas Pappas, MD

Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Director, Preventive Cardiology at Catholic Health

Evan Shlofmitz

Evan Shlofmitz, DO

Director, Intravascular Imaging at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

William Chung

William Chung, MD

Director, Transcatheter Mitral Interventions at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Ezra Deutsch

Ezra Deutsch, MD

Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Good Samaritan University Hospital

David Reich, MD

David Reich, MD

Chief, Interventional Cardiology at Good Samaritan University Hospital

Gary Friedman

Gary Friedman, MD

Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Mercy Hospital

Sidharth Yadav

Sidharth Yadav, DO

Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Mercy Hospital

Ralph Caselnova

Ralph Caselnova, MD

Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at St. Joseph Hospital

Paul Sapia

Paul Sapia, MD

Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at St. Joseph Hospital

Allen Jeremias

Allen Jeremias, MD

Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at St. Catherine of Siena Hospital; Associate Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Director, Interventional Cardiology Research at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Rakesh Patel

Rakesh Patel, MD

Chief, Invasive Cardiology at St. Catherine of Siena Hospital

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Leadership

Joseph Levine

Joseph Levine, MD

Director, Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Center at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Armen Ovsepian

Armen Ovsepian, MD

Director, Electrophysiology Services at Good Samaritan University Hospital; Chief, Electrophysiology at St. Catherine of Siena Hospital

Heart Failure Leadership

Rita Jermyn

Rita Jermyn, MD

Director, Advanced Cardio Therapeutics Program at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and Heart Failure Program at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Cardio-Oncology Leadership

Syed Saad Mahmood

Syed Saad Mahmood, MD

Director, Cardio-Oncology Program at Catholic Health and St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Pediatric Cardiology Leadership

Sean Levchuck

Sean Levchuck, MD

Chair, Pediatric Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Douglas Luxenberg

Douglas Luxenberg, DO

Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiology at Good Samaritan University Hospital

Cardiovascular Imaging Leadership

Omar Khalique

Omar Khalique, MD

Director, Cardiovascular Imaging at Catholic Health and St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Research and Education at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Jie Jane Cao

Jie Jane Cao, MD

Director, Advanced Cardiac Imaging at Catholic Health and St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Cardiovascular Research Leadership

Ziad Ali

Ziad Ali, MD

Director, Cardiovascular Imaging at Catholic Health and St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Research and Education at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Jaffar Khan

Jaffar Khan, MD

Director, Cardiovascular Innovation Services at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center; Associate Director, Structural Heart Research Services at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Our Care Team

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Find a Doctor at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center® (Roslyn, NY)

Interventionalists

  • Richard Shlofmitz, MD
  • George Petrossian, MD
  • Thomas Pappas, MD
  • Meyer Abittan, MD
  • Ziad Ali, MD
  • Andrew Berke, MD
  • William Chung, MD
  • Ari Ezratty, MD
  • Gary Friedman, MD
  • Alan Goldman, MD
  • Andrew Grunwald, MD
  • Allen Jeremias, MD
  • Andrew Lituchy, MD
  • Antonio Madrid, MD
  • Stephen Mezzafonte, MD
  • Joseph Minadeo, MD
  • Edward Oruci, MD
  • Chong Park, MD
  • Maulik Patel, MD
  • Kiran Reddy, MD
  • Evan Shlofmitz, DO
  • Theofanis Tsiamtsiouris, MD
  • Sidartha Yadav, DO
  • Jeffery Moses, MD

Interventional Neurology

  • Jeffrey Farkas, MD
  • Karthikeyan Arcot, MD
  • David Turkel-Parrella, MD
  • Jeremy Liff, MD
  • Nitin Mariwalla, MD
  • Ambooj Tiwari, MD
  • Miguel Litao, MD
  • Ketevan Kerekashvili, MD

Invasive

  • Rita Jermyn, MD
  • Patrick Monteleone, MD
  • Felix Oviasu, MD
  • Aman Shah, MD

(Pulmonary embolisms) INARI/EKOS

  • Kiran Reddy, MD

Patent foramen ovale (PFO)

  • (adult and pediatric) Sean Levchuck, MD

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TAVR

  • George Petrossian, MD
  • William Chung, MD
  • Andrew Berke, MD

MitraClip

  • George Petrossian, MD
  • William Chung, MD
  • Andrew Berke, MD

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  • Joseph Levine, MD
  • Joshua Stern, MD
  • Vinod Jayam, MD
  • William Shin, MD
  • Gregory Siroky, MD
  • David Hock, MD

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  • Marlon Rosenbaum, MD

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  • Omar Khalique, MD
  • Eddy Barasch, MD
  • Sylvia Biso, MD
  • Jane Cao, MD
  • Lu Chen, MD
  • Jason Craft, MD
  • Kana Fujikura, MD
  • Amanda Leung, MD
  • Dennis Mihalatos, MD
  • Afiachukwu Onuegbu, MD
  • Roosha Parikh, MD
  • Vijayapraveena Paruchuri, MD
  • Xiao Ren, MD
  • Kathleen Stergiopoulos, MD
  • Billal Tokhi, DO
  • Andrew Van Tosh, MD
  • Lin Wang, MD
  • Haoyi Zheng, MD

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Find a Doctor at St. Francis Heart Center at Good Samaritan Hospital (West Islip, NY)

Interventionalists

  • Ezra Deutsch, MD
  • David Reich, MD
  • Paul Lee, MD
  • Matthew Liakos, MD
  • Rakesh Patel, MD
  • Shahram Hormozi, MD
  • Michael Happes, MD
  • Ralph Caselnova, MD
  • Thomas Chengot, DO
  • Samy Selim, MD
  • Puneet Gandotra, MD

Interventional Neurology

  • Kimon Bekelis, MD
  • Symeon Missios, MD
     

(Pulmonary embolisms) INARI/EKOS

  • Ezra Deutsch, MD
  • David Reich, MD
  • Paul Lee, MD
  • Matthew Liakos, MD
  • Rakesh Patel, MD
  • Shahram Hormozi, MD
  • Michael Happes, MD
  • Ralph Caselnova, MD
  • Thomas Chengot, DO

Patent foramen ovale (PFO)

  • David Reich, MD
  • Michael Happes, MD

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TAVR

  • Ezra Deutsch, MD
  • David Reich, MD
  • Paul Lee, MD
  • Michael Happes, MD
  • Thomas Chengot, DO

MitraClip

  • David Reich, MD
  • Michael Happes, MD

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  • Armen Ovsepian, MD
  • Justin Shaber, MD
  • Eric Uyguanco, MD
  • Alex Vidal, MD
  • Ching Wei Russell Chen, MD
  • Michael Weber, MD
  • Leigh Ann Hutchinson, MD
  • Anastasios Manaris, MD
  • Todd Cohen, MD

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Find a Doctor at St. Francis Heart Center at Mercy Hospital (Rockville Centre, NY)

Interventionalists

  • Sidartha Yadav, DO
  • Maulik Patel, MD

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  • Bassiema Ibrahim, MD

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Find a Doctor at St. Francis Heart Center at St. Catherine of Siena Hospital (Smithtown, NY)

Interventionalists

  • Ezra Deutsch, MD
  • Michael Happes, MD
  • Michael Rosenband, MD
  • Rakesh Patel, MD
  • Shahram Hormozi, MD
  • Shamin Khan, MD

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  • Abram Mozes, MD
  • Armen Ovsepian, MD
  • Michael Weber, MD
  • Leigh Hutchinson, MD
  • Alex Vidal, MD
  • Trevor Verga, MD

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Find a Doctor at St. Francis Heart Center at St. Joseph Hospital (Bethpage, NY)

Interventionalists

  • Allen Jeremias, MD
  • Ralph Caselnova, MD
  • Thomas Chengot, DO

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Heart & Vascular Services