Meet Our Cardiovascular & Thoracic Team

On the Pulse of Innovation. In Rhythm With You.

Our team includes more than 100 renowned vascular, thoracic (chest), cardiac electrophysiology and heart specialists. Our doctors are sought-after researchers, technological innovators and world-class surgeons. But their very first priority is YOU.

Electrophysiology

Atul Bhatia, MD, FACC	Electrophysiology	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Ryan Cooley, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora Medical Center, Grafton
Mohamed Djelmani-Hani, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora Medical Center, Grafton
Anwer Dhala, MD, FACC, FHRS	Electrophysiology	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Arshad Jahangir, MD	Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Cardiovascular Services, (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Vinay Mehta, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
M. Eyman Mortada, MD	Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Vikram Nangia, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Imran Niazi, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora Cardiovascular Services, (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Bilal Omery, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora Cardiovascular Services, (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Imran Sheikh, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
Jasbir S. Sra, MD, FACC, FHRS	Electrophysiology	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Jule Wetherbee, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora Medical Center, Grafton
Jodi Zilinski, MD	Electrophysiology	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)

Cardiology

Paul Bernstein, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Thomas Broihier, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora St. Luke’s South Shore, Medical Office Building
Peter Diamond, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Cardiology Clinic (Elkhorn)
Rami Gal, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Patrycja Galazka, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora West Allis Medical Center
Franciso Gamez, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Bay Area Medical Center, Marinette
Maryam Gardezi, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center West Allis
Mark Girzadas, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center West Allis
Daniel R. Harland, MD	Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Renuka Jain, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
George V. Kuttickat, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Sheboygan Clinic
Anthony LoCurto, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Medical Center, Kenosha
Ijaz Malik, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Ciprian Nedelcu, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
Robert Panther, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Wilkinson Medical Clinic, Summit
Kenneth Phillips, Jr., MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Medical Center (Good Hope Road, Milwaukee)
Steven Port, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Ramon Rayel, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
Prakash Shah, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Medical Center in Kenosha
Bernard Staller, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Valentin Suma, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
Jamil Tajik, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Stephen Welka, DO	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Burlington Clinic
Francis Wolf, MD	Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora BayCare Medical Center Cardiology

Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

Elizabeth Colwell, MD	Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
John Crouch, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
David Demos, MD	Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
William Fischer, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Scott Johnson, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
David Kress, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Alexander Roitstein, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
William Tisol, MD	Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Eric Weiss, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)

Advanced Heart Failure Therapies

Omar Cheema, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Tendick Center for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies (Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee)
Asad Ghafoor, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Tendick Center for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies (Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee)
Eric Roberts, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Tendick Center for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies (Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee)
Nasir Sulemanjee, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Tendick Center for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies (Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee)
Dianne Zwicke, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Tendick Center for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies (Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee)

Interventional Cardiology

Suhail Allaqaband, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Tanvir Bajwa, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Donald Brescia, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Oshkosh
Nicolas Buss, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Oshkosh
Anthony DeFranco, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Babak Haddadian, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Muhammad F. Jan, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Ali Khan, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Sheboygan
Jayant Khitha, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Ahmad Khraisat, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Greenfield
Louie Kostopoulos, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Krishna Kumar, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Summit
Christopher Marowski, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Germantown
Steven Merry, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Menomonee Falls
Steve (Efstathios) Naum, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Germantown
Tonga Nfor, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Kingston Okrah, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Oshkosh
Matthew Schmidt, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
Joaquin Solis, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Setu Trivedi, DO	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Medical Center Kenosha
Ramagopal Tumuluri, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Richard Wakefield, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Health Center, Germantown
Dajun Wang, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Medical Center Kenosha
Paul Weisman, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Medical Center (Good Hope Road, Milwaukee)
Scott Weslow, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
William Witmer, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay

Valve and Structural Heart Intervention

Suhail Allaqaband, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Tanvir Bajwa, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Aurora Cardiovascular Services (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
John Crouch, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Eric Weiss, MD	Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)

Vascular Medicine / Vascular Surgery

Laith Alsayegh, MD	Vascular Medicine	Aurora Medical Group Vascular Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Peter Bartzen, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Health Center (Kenosha)
Richard Carballo, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Vascular Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Leif Erickson, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Health Center (Burlington)
Irina Goncharova, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Vascular Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Rajeev Gupta, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Vascular Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Gurjeet Kaleka, MD	General Surgery	Aurora Medical Center (Oshkosh)
Steven Kappes, MD	General Surgery	Aurora Health Center (Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee)
John Kispert, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Medical Group General and Vascular Surgery (West Allis)
Gary Stewart, MD	General Surgery	Aurora Health Center (Menomonee Falls)
Abhishek Sundaram, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Medical Center in Grafton
Gregory Thom, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay
Matthew White, MD	General Surgery	Aurora Medical Group Vascular Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)

Vascular Intervention

Suhail Allaqaband, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Tanvir Bajwa, MD	Cardiovascular Disease	Cardiac Specialty Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Mark Mewissen, MD	Vascular & Interventional Radiology	Aurora Medical Group Vascular Center (Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Milwaukee)
Abhishek Sundaram, MD	General & Vascular Surgery	Aurora Medical Center in Grafton

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