Khurram Nasir, M.D., has joined Baptist Health Medical Group as director of Wellness and Prevention Research.

 

Dr. Nasir comes to Baptist Health Medical Group from Yale University, where he was a clinical fellow in cardiovascular medicine. He is associate editor of two leading journals (Atherosclerosis and the Journal of Cardiac CT), has served as reviewer for more than 15 prestigious medical journals, including Circulation and Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and is currently serving as the chair of the Prevention Council of Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention.

 

Cardiologist Daniel Cassis, M.D., has also joined Baptist Health Medical Group.

 

Dr. Cassis has been in private practice in South Florida since 1980 and a member of the medical staffs at Miami Heart Institute, Aventura Hospital and Medical Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center. He also was president of the medical staff at Miami Heart Institute. He is a Diplomate in internal medicine,

cardiovascular disease and echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography.