Vikas Kalra is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and a Cardiologist in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Kalra is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. 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.

Ajay Soodan is a Cardiologist in Pikesville, Maryland. Dr. Soodan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Arrhythmias, Familial Progressive Cardiac Conduction Defect, Atrial Fibrillation, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Agazi Gebreselassie is a Gastroenterologist and a Hospital Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Gebreselassie is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Jaundice, Macroamylasemia, Portal Hypertension, Endoscopy, and Colonoscopy.

Hafeez Syed is a Cardiologist in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Syed is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Necrosis, Hypertensive Heart Disease, Pacemaker Implantation, and Hip Replacement. Dr. Syed is currently accepting new patients.

Aksana Afanasenka is a Hospital Medicine provider in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Afanasenka is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. Her top areas of expertise are Muscle Spasms, Vitamin D Deficiency, Endoscopy, and Pacemaker Implantation. Dr. Afanasenka is currently accepting new patients.

Lindsey Thattassery is a Hospital Medicine provider in Reisterstown, Maryland. Dr. Thattassery is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. Her top areas of expertise are Vitamin D Deficiency, Muscle Spasms, Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma (pLGG), Colonoscopy, and Ureteroscopy.

Charles Cummings is a Cardiologist in Pikesville,, Maryland. Dr. Cummings is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Atherosclerosis, Coronary Heart Disease, Angina, Pacemaker Implantation, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Warren Israel is a Cardiologist in Pikesville, Maryland. Dr. Israel is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Familial Progressive Cardiac Conduction Defect, Familial Neurocardiogenic Syncope, Heart Attack, Atrial Fibrillation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Benjamin Dubois is a Cardiologist in Pikesville,, Maryland. Dr. Dubois is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Coronary Heart Disease, Atherosclerosis, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Joshua Birnbaum is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Randallstown, Maryland. Dr. Birnbaum has been practicing medicine for over 17 years and is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Asthma in Children, Asthma, Grass Allergy, Endoscopy, and Hip Replacement. Dr. Birnbaum is currently accepting new patients.

Nirmal Guragain is a Hospital Medicine provider in Randallstown, Maryland. Dr. Guragain is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Gallbladder Disease, Intestinal Cancer, Gastrostomy, and Ureteroscopy.

Aneta Gramatikova is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Randallstown, Maryland. Dr. Gramatikova is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. Her top areas of expertise are Cellulitis, Renovascular Hypertension, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Gastrostomy, and Colonoscopy.

Manu Mysore is a Cardiologist in Reisterstown,, Maryland. Dr. Mysore has been practicing medicine for over 10 years and is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Hypertension, Pulmonary Hypertension, Cor Triatriatum, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), and Aortic Valve Replacement.

Mohammed Kanjwal is a Cardiologist in Baltimore,, Maryland. Dr. Kanjwal is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are His Bundle Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT), Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.

Jonathan Chrispin, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Division of Cardiology, Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia, as well as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Chrispin focuses on all aspects of clinical electrophysiology, including pacemaker/defibrillator implantation and complex catheter ablation for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. Dr. Chrispin received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Vanderbilt University. He completed intern and residency training in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he also completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease and served as chief clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellow. He is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Chrispin directs the Ventricular Arrhythmia Ablation and Research program, focusing on using advanced cardiac imaging to better understand the structural substrate associated with the development of ventricular arrhythmias and using artificial intelligence to improve the risk stratification of sudden cardiac death. Further, he is involved in developing clinical trials to improve the safety and efficacy of catheter ablation for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia. His work has led to Dr. Chrispin publishing in a number of international journals, including Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Journal, Nature Cardiovascular Research, Journal of the American Heart Association, and EP Europace. Dr. Chrispin is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Ventricular Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Sarcoidosis, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

James Gammie is the surgical lead and co-director for the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute and cardiac surgeon-in-chief for the Johns Hopkins Health System. With over 23 years of experience in cardiothoracic surgery, Dr. Gammie joined Johns Hopkins after serving as chief of the division of cardiac surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center from 2012 to 2021. Dr. Gammie graduated from Brown University with a degree in biochemistry, and received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Gammie trained in both general and cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His clinical and research efforts are focused on decreasing the mortality and morbidity of valve disease and improving the surgical treatment of mitral valve and other structural heart diseases. He performs over 225 mitral valve operations and interventions per year, and leads a cardiac surgery team that performs more than 1,200 cardiac operations annually. He is recognized by the Mitral Foundation and the American Heart Association as one of less than 25 reference surgeons in the U.S. for his experience in mitral valve repair and excellent patient outcomes. Dr. Gammie has a strong interest in all aspects of heart valve disease, and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed contributions in leading specialty journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Circulation. He has served as a deputy editor for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and as chair of the Access and Publications Committee of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. He serves on the steering committee of the NHLBI-sponsored Cardiothoracic Surgery Trials Network, and led the protocol development committee of a worldwide randomized tricuspid valve surgery trial. He is a member of the Halsted Society and the 21st Century Cardiothoracic Surgical Society. In 2011, Dr. Gammie was awarded the Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland Alliance for Science and Technology Development BioMaryland LIFE Prize, and he was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the University of Maryland Baltimore in 2014. He is the inventor of a novel transseptal catheter designed to simplify transcatheter cardiac procedures, and founded a commercial company to commercialize the device. With 20 issued or submitted patents, he continues to innovate in the mitral valve space, and recently published the world’s first clinical experience with a novel surgical repair for secondary mitral valve regurgitation, which was developed in his laboratory: mitral valve translocation. From 2016–2021, Dr. Gammie was consistently named a Top Doctor by Baltimore magazine, and in 2018 he received the Golden Apple Teacher of the Year award. Dr. Gammie is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Tricuspid Regurgitation, Mitral Valve Prolapse, Embolectomy, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Dr. Aravindan Kolandaivelu is an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins hospital specializing in cardiac electrophysiology and cardiology. Having more than 16 years of diverse experiences, Dr. Kolandaivelu affiliates with many hospitals including Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and cooperates with other doctors and specialists in medical group Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kolandaivelu completed a medical degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a residency at Stanford University Medical Center in internal medicine. He joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a cardiology fellow in 2010. Dr. Aravinda was honored with the 2008 Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award. Dr. Kolandaivelu is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Ventricular Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Seth Martin is a Cardiologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Martin is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Familial Ventricular Tachycardia, Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), and Pacemaker Implantation.

Dr. Seamus Whelton MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Cardiology and member of the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. His primary clinical and research expertise includes the pathogenesis, risk prediction, prevention, and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with an emphasis on the identification of coronary artery calcium via cardiac CT scanning. He is Director of the Advanced Subclinical Atherosclerosis Clinic, which focuses on the treatment of patients with incidentally discovered coronary artery calcium detected by CT imaging. He is also an expert on the pathogenesis, epidemiology, and risk factors for aortic valve calcification. He has led pioneering research to describe the use aortic valve calcification to predict the risk of aortic stenosis. Dr. Whelton has published more than 130 peer reviewed manuscripts, multiple book chapters, and has been an invited lecturer at both national and international conferences. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. He is a member of the American College of Cardiology Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Leadership Council. He has been the Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association. Dr. Whelton received his undergraduate degree at Princeton University. He then completed a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine followed by his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine. He subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and then completed a fellowship in Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine before joining the Cardiology Faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2017. Videos Dr. Seamus Whelton. Dr. Whelton is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Atherosclerosis, Apoplexy, Coronary Heart Disease, Pacemaker Implantation, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Ahmet Kilic is a cardiac surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an associate professor of surgery at the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also serves as director of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Kilic's areas of clinical expertise include adult cardiac surgery with a special interest in heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Kilic served as associate professor of surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and was the director of the heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support programs. He was co-director of the advanced heart failure program as well as the vice director of clinical and academic affairs in the division of cardiac surgery. Although a recognized leader in the field of heart failure, Dr. Kilic’s expertise runs the spectrum of cardiac surgery. Dr. Kilic is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Heart Tumor, Restrictive Cardiomyopathy (RCM), Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis, Heart Transplant, and Heart Bypass Surgery.