Profiles in Cardiology – Tenet Florida Physician Services

 

 

 

Interventional cardiologist Dr. Rahul Aggarwal provides catheter-based care of cardiovascular diseases including diagnosis and treatment for coronary artery disease, vascular disease as well as congenital and acquired structural heart disease. Dr. Aggarwal specializes in invasive and interventional cardiology, clinical cardiology, exercise stress testing, echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and peripheral arterial disease. In addition, Dr. Aggarwal has areas of interest in the treatment of heart rhythm problems or arrhythmias, high blood pressure and cholesterol. He also has a special interest in preventive cardiology medicine and in educating his patients about the importance of eating a healthy diet. Dr. Aggarwal is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology, and the American Board of Nuclear Cardiology. His office with Tenet Florida Physician Services (TFPS) is located in Jupiter and he’s on-staff at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.

 

 

Dr. James Gardner specializes in the field of invasive cardiology consisting of minimally-invasive catheter based procedures to diagnose and provide treatment for a variety of cardiac ailments within the heart. As a highly-skilled invasive cardiology specialist, Dr. Gardner’s areas of interest include clinical cardiology, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, congestive heart failure, hypertension and preventive medicine. Dr. Gardner’s Tenet Florida Physician Services (TFPS) office is located in Jupiter and he is on-staff at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. He is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine and completed fellowship-training in both general and invasive cardiology. Dr. Gardner joined TFPS in 2018 and has been practicing medicine since 2012. He completed his education and training with a general cardiology and invasive cardiology fellowship, as well as his residency and internship from St. James Hospital – Midwestern University, Olympia Fields, IL. Dr. Gardner graduated medical school from Philadelphia College of Medicine (PCOM) – Georgia Campus located in Suwanee, GA.

 

 

Interventional cardiologist Dr. Marquand Patton specializes in complex structural heart, coronary and peripheral interventions via the catheter-based treatment of heart disease and cardiac ailments. Dr. Patton’s care focuses on transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve replacement and repair (TMVR), left atrial appendage occlusion, patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD) and paravalvular leak closure (PVL). In 2019, Dr. Patton brought the BASILICA procedure for high-risk coronary artery occlusion during TAVR to TFPS and performed the procedure at Palmetto General Hospital where he’s on-staff. Additionally, Dr. Patton focuses on mitral, aortic, pulmonic valvuloplasty, hemodynamic support and cardiogenic shock, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) interventions, peripheral vascular disease interventions and May-Thurner Syndrome. Dr. Patton is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine in cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology, American Board of Vascular Medicine in endovascular medicine, Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology and National Board of Echocardiography. Dr. Patton’s TFPS office is located in Hialeah and he’s bilingual in English and Spanish.

 

 

Dr. Erik Beyer is a highly-trained, skilled and experienced cardiothoracic surgeon with Tenet Florida Physician Services (TFPS) and on-staff at Florida Medical Center, a campus of North Shore located in Fort Lauderdale. Dr. Beyer specializes in minimally-invasive heart valve surgery, minimally-invasive atrial fibrillation (AFib) surgery, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), aortic root reconstruction, aortic aneurysm treatment, aortic valve repair and mitral valve repair. In addition, Dr. Beyer performs thoracic surgery, heart failure surgery, coronary revascularization and has an additional, special interest in patient safety. Dr. Beyer has been a part of several innovations including the first use of the Navigator dissection tool for the MAZE procedure, a minimally invasive procedure used to treat atrial fibrillation. He was also a part of developing the Hybrid “Cooperative” MAZE procedure and was among the first to use the MAPS ablation pen. Dr. Beyer is certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Beyer’s TFPS offices are located in Fort Lauderdale and Delray Beach and he is trilingual in English, German and Spanish.