Cardiologists near Paramus, NJ

Biography: Michael Brener, MD, MS, is an interventional cardiologist with over five years of experience treating patients with a variety of cardiovascular conditions, specifically coronary artery disease, heart failure, and heart valve abnormalities. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology. Dr. Brener serves as a full-time faculty member of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University School of Medicine. Dr. Brener completed his medical degree and training in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Before starting his training in cardiology, Dr. Brener was an Assistant Chief of Service (Chief Resident) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He then completed his cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, and structural interventional cardiology fellowships at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Brener's clinical practice focuses on cardiac catheterization, percutaneous treatment of coronary artery disease with stents and angioplasty, and procedures to treat heart valve conditions like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. In addition, Dr. Brener is an active researcher with a faculty appointment at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. His work focuses on cardiovascular hemodynamics in patients with heart failure and valvular heart disease.

Biography: Dr. Emily J. Tsai is the Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and an attending physician at the Center for Advanced Cardiac Care of New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Board-certified in Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Dr. Tsai specializes in caring for heart failure patients who require, or who have received, a ventricular assist device or heart transplant. Dr. Tsai is a magna cum laude graduate in engineering sciences of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Program. She completed internal medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and then cardiology fellowship and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. As a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awardee, Dr. Tsai completed post-doctoral basic cardiovascular research training at Johns Hopkins University in the laboratory of Dr. David A. Kass. After fellowship training, Dr. Tsai was recruited to Temple University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of medicine and physiology and a principal investigator in its Cardiovascular Research Center. In 2015, Dr. Tsai joined the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and established her laboratory in molecular and integrative cardiac pathophysiology.As a physician-scientist, Dr. Tsai studies the molecular and cellular biology of heart failure with the goal of developing novel therapies. Major areas of research in Dr. Tsai's laboratory include the signaling of soluble guanylyl cyclase (the nitric oxide receptor) in the heart, right heart dysfunction, and cardiac complications associated with COVID-19. Dr. Tsai has been nationally recognized for her scientific achievements by the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America, with their respective Presidential Career Development Award and Jay N. Cohn New Investigator in Basic Sciences Award. She has been awarded several research grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, Foundation of Gender Specific Medicine, and the Columbia University Provost's Grants Program. Dr. Tsai has served on national committees of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Failure Society of America.

Biography: Steven O. Marx, M.D., is the Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and is director of the cardiology component of a NIH training grant for cardiology fellows and surgery residents. His research program in cardiovascular diseases at Columbia has been focused in two major areas: molecular cardiology, particularly the regulation of ion channels in normal and pathological conditions in the heart, and vascular biology, particularly the molecular mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle proliferation, migration and contractility. Working with others at Columbia, Dr. Marx has identified rapamycin (sirolimus) as a therapeutic agent for preventing restenosis after angioplasty/stent implantation. He also characterized the dysfunction of the ryanodine receptor in heart failure. A major focus of Dr. Marx's current research is the regulation of arterial contractility and blood pressure by the ion channels. Dr. Marx received his B.S. in Biology from Union College and M.D. from Albany Medical College as part of a six-year program. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in ion channel research at Johns Hopkins, he completed an internship and residency at the University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital followed by a Cardiology Fellowship and a Clinical Electrophysiology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is also the principal investigator of several NIH R01 grants and a T32 grant. Dr. Marx has served on NIH and AHA peer review committees, is a member of the AHA Founders Affiliate Research Committee, and serves on the New York Academy of Medicine Glorney-Raisbeck Selection Committee.

Biography: Zvi S. Marans, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, is a full time faculty member of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Columbia. He is based in northern New Jersey, and is the founding and managing partner of a large, regional pediatric cardiology practice in Paramus, NJ. His practice, established in 1990, provides the highest quality academic specialty care in the context of a compassionate and nurturing environment. He specializes in congenital and acquired heart disease in children, and has a specialty interest in fetal cardiology. Dr. Marans is a skilled educator, and teaches a regular class in cardiac anatomy to the Columbia pediatric cardiology fellows. In addition, he is an attending at the pediatric cardiac neonatal intensive care unit at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia. His partners are also graduates of the Columbia training program and are full time faculty members at Columbia. He is married to Nina Kampler, a lawyer and retail real estate strategist, and is the father of four children.

Biography: Nada Farhat, NP is a Nurse Practitioner who practices in New York, NY. Nada Farhat, NP is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Marwah Abdalla, MD, MPH is a clinical cardiologist, cardiac intensivist, and Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. She is the Director of Education for the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and is a full-time faculty member in the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health at Columbia. Her areas of expertise include critical care cardiology and hypertension. Dr. Abdalla is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and echocardiography. She is also an NIH funded clinical investigator with a research interest in the cardiovascular manifestations of hypertension, assessed by echocardiography, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and sleep. Dr. Abdalla received her Medical Degree and Masters in Public Health from Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health. She was an Intern, Resident, and Chief Resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She completed her training as a cardiology Fellow and Chief Fellow at Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Hersy Contreras, NP is a Nurse Practitioner who practices in New York, NY. Hersy Contreras, NP is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Ruben Salazar, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 32 years old. Dr. Ruben Salazar, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian.

Biography: Melissa Argenio, NP is a Nurse Practitioner who practices in New York, NY. Melissa Argenio, NP is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dylan Marshall, MD, MPH grew up in Westchester and graduated from Columbia University with a major in Biology and a concentration in Hispanic Studies. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He earned his Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He completed his internal medicine residency training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia. Dr. Marshall went on to complete his cardiology fellowship training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell. Dr. Marshall has completed advanced training in adult echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. His research, which focuses on various topics in heart failure, has been published in top academic journals and presented at national cardiology conferences. Dr. Marshall has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and currently divides his time between clinical practice, echocardiography interpretation, and hospital consultation. He enjoys teaching housestaff and medical students while on the wards.

Biography: Dr. Muredach Reilly, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. Dr. Muredach Reilly, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Cindy is an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner.In 1996, she received her first Master's in Primary Health Care from the University of Western Sydney in Australia.In 2014, she graduated from New York University with a Master of Science in Nursing.Cindy is looking forward to obtaining her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at The University of Pennsylvania in 2024 and represents the highest degree in nursing practice for fully accountable expert care to patients.Clinical experienceCindy is a Clinical Lipid Specialist at the Center for Heart Disease Prevention at Columbia University Medical Center since 2017. She is board-certified in Lipidology. She treats patients with hypercholesterolemia, and dyslipidemia, who have rare and severe lipid disorders. Her treatments focus on the prevention or stabilization of existing diseases. Her research interest is focused on identifying undertreated populations earlier in the underserved community for cardiovascular risk reduction and disease prevention. She has unique experience in healthcare from different areas and countries. Nine years of experience as a Registered Nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and High Dependency Unit and Five years of experience as a Research Nurse in Cardiac Pacing, and electrophysiology cardiology in Hong Kong. Cindy moved to the United States in 2006, she worked as a Research Nurse at New York University Langone Hospital in Cardiology Division for eight years. After she graduated from the Master of Science Program at New York University in 2014, she worked at Columbia University Medical Center as a Manager in the Clinical Research Unit for two years.

Biography: Dr. Shimbo received a B.S. from the Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering and a M.D. from Albany Medical College. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, and was selected as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine, also at the Mount Sinai Hospital, before joining the faculty at Columbia University in September 2003. Currently, Dr. Shimbo is a board-certified cardiologist and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He co-directs the Columbia Hypertension Center, a multi-disciplinary center of excellence that provides high quality care and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing for patients with hypertension. Dr. Shimbo's clinical interests include the accurate diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, and evaluating the cardiovascular manifestations of hypertension. Dr. Shimbo conducts rigorous, innovative, interdisciplinary research that increases the understanding of the behavioral, psychosocial and biological processes in the pathogenesis of the increased cardiovascular disease risk associated with hypertension.