Attending Cardiologist
Residency: UMDNJ/ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Cooper University Hospital
Specialty Training: (Cardiovascular Disease) UMDNJ/ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Cooper University Hospital
Board Certified: American Board of Internal Medicine
Special Interest: Congestive heart failure, advanced therapies for heart failure including cardiac resynchronization. Cardiovascular disease in women, particularly diastolic heart failure in women.

Attending Physician, Hospitalist, Department of Cardiology
Residency: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Specialty Training: Internal Medicine
Board Certified: Internal Medicine
Special Interests: Diabetes Management, Dyslipidemia

Manu Rajachandran, MD

Chairman, Department of Endovascular Medicine
Director, Comprehensive Vascular Program
Department of Vascular Medicine
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Specialty Training: (Cardiovascular Disease) UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, The Miami Heart Institute, Miami, FL and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, (Vascular Medicine) Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases
Special Interests: Coronary and Peripheral Intervention

Inga Robbins, MD, FACC

Associate Director, Echocardiography Laboratory
Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, PA
Board Certified: Testimer-American Society of Echocardiography

Saugato Sanyal MD, MBA

Associate Cardiologist
Residency: Long Island College Hospital, NY
Specialty Training: Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, NY
Board Certified: American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Cardiovascular Diseases, Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology.
Special Interests:
1. Cardiovascular Risk assessment and modification with particular attention to lipid management, obesity and hypertension management with integrated approach of combining medications with lifestyle modification and proven dietary supplementations and modifications.
2. Non-invasive cardiac imaging and coronary risk assessment including Nuclear Imaging studies, cardiac PET and cardiovascular CT.
3. Research assessing outcome modification and cost effective intervention strategies.

Michael Scharf, MD

Attending Pulmonologist,
Director Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Course Director, Annual Clinical Update of Pulmonary Medicine
Director, Continuing Medical Education, Pulmonary Medicine
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Specialty Training: Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine
Special Interests: Pulmonary Hypertension, Occupational Asthma, Alpha-I-Antitrypsin Deficiency

Betsy Schloo, MD

Chair, Department of Pathology
Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: The Children’s Hospital/Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA
Board Certified: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Special Interests: Pediatric Pathology, Pulmonary Pathology

Jitendra Sodhi, MD

Adjunct Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Residency: University of Rajasthan S.P. Medical College and P.B.M. Hospital, India
Specialty Training: State University of NY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Board Certification: General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery boards, India

Sumathisena, MD

Chief, Clinical and Consultative Cardiology
Residency: Atlantic City Hospital, NJ
Specialty Training: Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, Fellowship in Cardiology
Special Interest: Clinical Cardiology

Pulmonary/Critical Care Attending
Director, Institute for Sleep Medicine
Adjunct Attending, Dept. of Surgery
Residency: Internal Medicine, Univ. of North Carolina, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC
Specialty Training: Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine Fellowship -UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Critical Care Medicine
Special Interests: Cardiovascular Pathology and Sleep Disorders, Post-op Cardiothoracic Surgical Critical Care

Mallik R Thatipelli, MD  

Medical Director, Deborah Vein Center
Attending Physician, Department of Endovascular Medicine
Residency: Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH                                   
Specialty Training: Vascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Endovascular Medicine: St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center/Tufts University Medical School, Boston, MA
Board Certified: American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Vascular Medicine
Special Interests: Venous Disorders, Thrombophilia, Carotid and Renovascular Diseases, Peripheral Vascular Diseases

Attending General and Vascular Surgeon; Director, Vascular Surgery
Residency: Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; The Graduate Hospital Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board Certified: General Surgery, Vascular Surgery
Special Interests: Vascular Surgery, Endovascular Surgery, Aortic Stent Grafting, Lower Extremities Vascular Disease, Carotid Disease

Attending, Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology
Residency: Internal Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Specialty Training: Cardiovascular Diseases, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; Electrophysiology, Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, PA
Board Certified: Internal Medicine,Cardiovascular Diseases
Special Medical Interests: Heart rhythm disturbances, pacemakers, defibrillators, resynchronization device therapy for heart failure, complex arrhythmias, ablation