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.

Nilofar Islam is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and a Cardiologist in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Islam is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. Her top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Familial Progressive Cardiac Conduction Defect, Sick Sinus Syndrome, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation. Dr. Islam is currently accepting new patients.

Shahabuddin Soherwardi is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Soherwardi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Sepsis, Acute Kidney Failure, Peptic Ulcer, Endoscopy, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Soherwardi is currently accepting new patients.

Sunil Singh is a Hospital Medicine provider in Timonium, Maryland. Dr. Singh is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Gallbladder Disease, Gastrostomy, and Hernia Surgery. Dr. Singh is currently accepting new patients.

Ejegayehu Terefe-Gifawossen is a Hospital Medicine provider in Timonium, Maryland. Dr. Terefe-Gifawossen is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. Her top areas of expertise are Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT), Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Gastrostomy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Terefe-Gifawossen is currently accepting new patients.

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.

Qinglin Gao is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Timonium, Maryland. Dr. Gao is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Pleurisy, Atypical Pneumonia, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Endoscopy, and Gastrostomy.

Samir Jain is an Internal Medicine specialist and a Hospital Medicine provider in Timonium, Maryland. Dr. Jain is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Liver Failure, Endoscopy, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Jain is currently accepting new patients.

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.

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 Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Cardiomyopathy, Arrhythmias, Heart Attack, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.

R C Stewart Finney is a Thoracic Surgeon in Towson, Maryland. Dr. C Stewart Finney is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Aortic Regurgitation, Rheumatic Fever, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Rawn Salenger is a Thoracic Surgeon in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Salenger is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Dr. Stacy Fisher is a cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland specializing in the care of adult congenital heart disease, pregnancy-related heart disease and congenital heart pulmonary hypertension. She is Associate Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Center at the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute and Director of the ACHD Training Program. She is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focus is congenital heart disease in adults including pulmonary hypertension, inherited heart disease and 3D printing translational medicine. She is interested in imaging and using 3D modeling to advance cardiac care and education. Her education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Her fellowship in cardiology was at the University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, including serving as the Chief Cardiology Fellow. She was then an Adult Congenital Heart Fellow at the University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital. After completing her fellowship in 2001, she joined a Baltimore cardiology practice and was named Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Services and the Co-Director of the Cardiac Critical Care Unit at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, positions which she held until 2011. She then joined University of Maryland School of Medicine as Director of Women’s and Complex Heart diseases where she started and directed the Adult Congenital Heart Program and practiced through 2022 when she joined Johns Hopkins. She was recently the President of the American Heart Association’s Greater Maryland Region. Videos Dr. Stacy Fisher. Dr. Fisher is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. Her top areas of expertise are Familial Ventricular Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Ventricular Tachycardia, Aortic Valve Replacement, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Mark Kelemen is a Cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kelemen is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Apoplexy, Pulmonary Edema, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, and Pacemaker Implantation.

Charles Mugera is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mugera is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, Pneumonia, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Gastrostomy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Mugera is currently accepting new patients.

Bing Wang is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Wang is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Acute Kidney Failure, Renovascular Hypertension, Sepsis, Endoscopy, and Colonoscopy. Dr. Wang is currently accepting new patients.

Dhiraj Gurung is a Hospital Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Gurung is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Gallbladder Disease, Liver Failure, Endoscopy, and Hip Replacement.

John Greenawalt is a Hospital Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Greenawalt is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Pacemaker Implantation. His top areas of expertise are Endoscopy and Gastrostomy.