Vikas Kalra is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and a Cardiologist in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Kalra is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Bidirectional Tachycardia, Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation. Dr. Kalra is currently accepting new patients.

Piamsook Angkeow is a Cardiologist and a Cardiac Electrophysiologist in Elkton, Maryland. Dr. Angkeow is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Familial Progressive Cardiac Conduction Defect, Angina, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Russell Hillsley is a Cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hillsley is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Sick Sinus Syndrome, Arrhythmias, Familial Progressive Cardiac Conduction Defect, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Sean Beinart is a Cardiologist in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Beinart is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Arrhythmias, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT), Atrial Fibrillation, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Alexander Asser is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist in Germantown, Maryland. Dr. Asser is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Arrhythmias, Familial Ventricular Tachycardia, His Bundle Tachycardia, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Jay Mazel is a Cardiologist in Annapolis,, Maryland. Dr. Mazel is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Cardiomyopathy, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Dr. Andrew Weiss joined Cardiovascular Specialists in July 2016 following completion of his cardiology fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where his training included nuclear cardiology, echocardiography and vascular ultrasound. He completed his medical school training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and residency at the Hospital of the University in Pennsylvania, also in Philadelphia. Originally from the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area, Dr. Weiss and his wife and two daughters reside in Howard County. Dr. Weiss is a member of the Active physician admitting staff at Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. He serves as a member of the Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. Videos 2018 Best Consulting Physician—Andrew Weiss, M.D., Howard County General Hospital. Dr. Weiss is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Arrhythmias, High Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis, and Atrial Fibrillation.

Alan Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C., received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine and was Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore. He then completed fellowships in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Maryland Hospital. His special interest is the surgical and medical management of cardiac arrhythmias. Dr. Schneider has been recognized as one of the area’s “Top Doctors” every year by Washingtonian magazine. Dr. Schneider is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation, Familial Progressive Cardiac Conduction Defect, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Dr. Chao-Wei Hwang is an interventional cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Hwang received doctoral and medical training at Harvard Medical School. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology fellowships at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Hwang joined the Division of Cardiology as faculty in 2011. He spent a year at Virtua Health System in New Jersey as systemwide Director of Interventional Cardiology, and is now Director of the Johns Hopkins Interventional Cardiology Program at Frederick Health Hospital (FHH) and Co-Medical Director of the FHH Cardiac Catheterization Lab. Dr. Hwang is an expert interventional cardiologist specializing in complex coronary interventions, management of acute coronary syndromes and advanced coronary artery disease. He has specialized expertise in PCI of chronic total occlusions (CTO). Dr. Hwang has been involved in a number of device and coronary clinical trials, and his broad areas of research interests include developing and optimizing devices for the treatment of coronary artery disease. Dr. Hwang has published extensively in stent-based drug delivery systems and local delivery systems for cell-based therapies to the heart. Dr. Hwang is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Arterial Embolism, Angioplasty, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

Dr. Cingolani is an Associate Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. He earned his medical degree from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and completed his Internship and Internal Medicine Residency at CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and hypertension research post-doctoral fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. After completing his Internal Medicine Residency at The Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania, Dr. Cingolani joined The Johns Hopkins Hospital as a Cardiology fellow, where he remained in the Faculty after his training. Currently, he is the Associate Director of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Coronary Care Unit, Director of the Hypertension Center and member of the Echocardiography Lab and Outpatient Cardiology Clinic. He also teaches pathophysiology to medical students. Dr. Cingolani’s research interests focus on hypertensive heart disease and its transition to heart failure. He aims to elucidate the mechanism/s by which certain matricellular proteins present in the heart seem to play a protective role. His research is mainly supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH). He is also the principal investigator of the DREAM study group, studying the effect of Melatonin in preventing atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Dr. Cingolani has been recognized by the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association for his work in hypertension and is the 2011 recipient of the PJ Schafer Memorial Heart Research Award, the 2012 Michel Mirowski Discovery Fund Award, and 2013 Magic that matters Fund. Dr. Cingolani is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT), Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Tissue Biopsy.

Dr. Andreas S. Barth is an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Inherited Heart Diseases. His clinical work focuses on clinical cardiac electrophysiology with a specific focus on inherited arrhythmia syndromes and channelopathies, including long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, CPVT and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies. Additionally, Dr. Barth participates in a multidisciplinary clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute providing Cardiology care to patients with muscular dystrophies and mitochondrial disease. Dr. Barth performs pacemaker and defibrillator implantation and complex catheter ablations for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. His basic research lab explores the relationship between metabolic and arrhythmogenic ion channel remodeling in heart failure and myotonic dystrophy. Dr. Barth earned a combined doctor of medicine and doctor of philosophy from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2016. He has been recognized with the First Prize for the Stanley L. Blumenthal Cardiology Research Award in Clinical Science in the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and as a Young Investigator Award Finalist of the American Heart Association and Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Barth is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Cardiomyopathy, Arrhythmias, Heart Attack, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

"Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Czarny attended the University of Wisconsin where he majored in molecular biology. After medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he completed an internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston followed by cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, and structural heart disease fellowships at Johns Hopkins. Currently, he is a faculty member in interventional cardiology and performs heart catheterizations and coronary artery stenting for patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarctions (""heart attacks"") at both the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is also a member of the Structural Heart Disease team and performs minimally invasive, catheter-based treatments for structural heart disease at the Johns Hopkins Hospital including transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for aortic valve stenosis, valve repair/replacement procedures for mitral valve regurgitation and stenosis, patent foramen ovale closure, atrial septal defect closure, alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and left atrial appendage occlusion with the Watchman(TM) device. He sees patients in his structural heart disease clinics at both the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Czarny's research interests include the safety of cardiac stenting at hospitals without cardiac surgery backup and outcomes of catheter-based structural heart procedures.". Dr. Czarny is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Apoplexy, Heart Attack, Aortic Valve Replacement, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Dr. Jeffrey C. Trost is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. His research there focuses on cardiac disease and cardiovascular medicine. He is also currently deputy director of clinical activities at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Trost earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed a residency at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine where he was chief resident from 1999-2000. He was an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine and an interventional cardiovascular fellow at Brown University before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2005. Dr. Trost was most recently recognized with the 2016 Hopkins Medicine Clinical Recognition Award for Quality and Safety and the 2016 Hopkins Cardiology Fellows’ Teaching Award. Dr. Trost is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Arterial Embolism, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG), and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Christopher Haas is an Interventional Cardiologist in Cumberland,, Maryland. Dr. Haas is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Angina, Atherectomy, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Joseph Marine, MD, MBA, FACC, FHRS, is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist who practices primarily at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and holds appointments as Vice-Director of Operations for the Division of Cardiology and Section Chief of Cardiology for Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. He trained at UC San Francisco Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston University Medical Center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Marine has lectured widely on a variety of arrhythmia topics and has served as a co-director of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Cardiovascular Overview and Board Review Course for 10 years. He currently serves on the ACC Board of Governors and is co-editor of the ACC/HRS EP Self-Assessment Program. He also serves on other committees for the ACC, the Heart Rhythm Society, and MedChi. He is co-author of more than 130 original research and review articles and has served on writing committees for several national cardiology practice and training guidelines. As a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, Dr. Marine specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias, which are heart rhythm disorders that cause the heart to beat too rapidly, too slowly, or irregularly. His research focuses on further improving the safety and effectiveness of catheter ablation and other treatments for atrial fibrillation and other atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. Dr. Marine is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT), Arrhythmias, Cardiac Ablation, and Heart Transplant.

Lena Mathews specializes in general cardiology and echocardiography. She received her medical degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed fellowships in cardiology and echocardiography at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Mathews is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. Her top areas of expertise are Apoplexy, Heart Attack, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), and Atherosclerosis.

Dr. Julie Marie Miller is an assistant professor in the division of cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as director of the vascular cardiology program in the division of cardiology at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Miller is the director of the Angiography Core Imaging Laboratory, which provides expert academic leadership, protocol development, manual of operating procedures, technical training, and complex image analysis for a multitude of research projects. The Angiographic Core Analysis is generally considered the reference standard (i.e. gold standard) test for coronary obstruction and flow. Dr. Miller earned her undergraduate degree at Saint Olaf College and medical degree at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She completed an internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1999. Dr. Miller has published extensively and was most recently honored with the Eli-Lilly Grant for Research in Cardiovascular Disease in Women for her work on outcomes of PTCA in women and relationship to vessel size. Dr. Miller is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. Her top areas of expertise are Apoplexy, Heart Attack, Arterial Embolism, and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF).

Nisha Chandra is a Cardiologist in Belcamp,, Maryland. Dr. Chandra is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. Her top areas of expertise are Cardiac Arrest, Apoplexy, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Heart Attack, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Dr. Johnston joined the Cardiology Faculty in 2008 and currently practices Interventional Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bayview Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. His primary research interest is in novel therapies for heart failure and he is involved in both clinical trials and pre-clinical studies currently underway at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Johnston is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Arterial Embolism, Bone Marrow Aspiration, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

Dr. Marlene Stephanie Williams is an Associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on coronary atherosclerosis and platelet function, and her particular focus is on platelet function as it relates to the acute coronary syndrome. Dr. Williams has examined platelet function and its correlation to platelet functional genomics and runs a platelet physiology laboratory on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus. The goal for her cardiovascular platelet laboratory has been to identify the etiology of platelet dysfunction in many disease states and apply methods that may improve this dysfunction that may eventually be translated to therapies for patients with cardiovascular disease. She is a prior recipient of an NIH career mentored award (K23) examining platelet functional genomics and an NIH RO1 award addressing platelet serotonin signaling in depression and heart disease. Dr. Williams has several publications covering platelet functional changes in settings of interventional cardiology, acute coronary syndrome, and heart disease and depression. She has participated in several NHLBI advisory committees, review groups, and study sections. Dr. Williams has been the Course Director, of the advanced clinical clerkship in coronary intensive care at the Bayview Medical center and has mentored many medical residents and cardiology fellows. Dr. Williams received her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from McGill University. She earned a medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and completed a residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After completing a residency, Dr. Williams was a cardiology fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Williams is currently the Clinical Director of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Williams is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Paroxysmal Ventricular Fibrillation. Her top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Arterial Embolism, Pacemaker Implantation, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).