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| FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE Left to right: James Cornwell, MD; Wayne Moore, MD; Joseph Rosenblum, DO; Thomas Kalmbach, MD; Brian Moore, MD; Mc Kindra Fletcher, MD; Smari Thordarson, MD; and David Gorecki, MD |
Heart & Vascular Institute members are physicians who collaborate with one another on the care of heart and vascular patients at La Porte Regional Health System. These physicians have no financial investment in the Institute and are not obligated to refer patients to each other or LRHS. The following is a list of physicians at LRHS who provide services through the Heart and Vascular & Vascular Institute. |
| CARDIOLOGISTS |
| Basher, Abul, MD, FACC Fletcher, Mc Kindra, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FACCP Medical Director of Interventional Cardiology Rosenblum, Joseph, DO, FACC, FACP Executive Medical Director of Cardiovascular Institute Gorecki, David, MD, FACC Medical Director of Cardiology Services Sukhija, Rishi, MD Wynter, Carl, MD |
| CARDIOLOGIST — PEDATRIC |
| Capannari, Thomas, MD, FACC, FAAP |
| ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY SERVICES |
| Dixon, Mark, DO Medical Director of Electrophysiology Dasari, Raghuram, MD Kaufman, Scott, DO |
| RADIOLOGISTS |
| Ali, Syed Ibrahim, MD De Persio, John, MD Co-Chairman of Peripheral Vascular Lab Muller, Hester, MD Thordarson, Smari, MD Chairperson of Diagnostic Imaging Medical Director of Peripheral Vascular Lab |
| CARDIOVASCULAR THORACIC SURGEONS |
| Berberian, George, MD Carlos, Glenn, MD Kalmbach, Thomas, MD, FACS Medical Director of Cardiac Surgical Services Khabbaz, Walid, MD, FACS O’Yek, Victorio, MD, FRCS (C), FACS, FCCP Sawaqed, Ray, MD Venditti, Jr., Joseph, MD, FACS, FACC, FACCP |
| GENERAL VASCULAR SURGEONS |
| Cornwell, James, MD, FACS Kim, Mimi, MD Moore, Brian, MD, FACS Moore, Wayne, MD, FACS |







