Cardiologists near Elmhurst, NY

Biography: Tara Shah, MD, is an interventional cardiologist at New York-Presbyterian Medical Group Queens, specializing in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Shah is board certified in cardiovascular diseases, interventional cardiology, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Shah's focus is coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, and includes complex percutaneous coronary and bypass graft interventions, as well as, structural and peripheral interventions. She performs procedures at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and Weill Cornell Medical Center. Active in research, Dr. Shah has been published in medical journals, including Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging and American Journal of Cardiology, and has presented her work at annual medical conferences. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Heart Association as well as the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. After graduating from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Dr. Shah completed her internal medicine residency at Yale University-Yale New Haven Hospital. She completed fellowships in clinical cardiology and interventional cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.

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. 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: 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.

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: Dr. Grace Kong is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an attending physician at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she practices pediatric cardiology. Dr. Kong is board-certified in general pediatrics and pediatric cardiology by the American Board of Pediatrics.Dr. Kong received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed her pediatrics residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine, where she served as a chief fellow and was voted fellow of the year by the pediatric residents. Dr. Kong then completed an advanced fellowship in cardiac imaging at Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine, where she was additionally trained in non-invasive cardiac imaging, including cardiac computed tomography, cardiac magnetic resonance, and fetal echocardiography.Dr. Kong's clinical interests include congenital heart disease, non-invasive cardiac imaging, and fetal cardiology. Her research interests revolve around using non-invasive imaging to predict outcomes and manage patients with congenital heart disease. She is fluent in English and Korean.

Biography: Hanano Watanabe, M.D., M.S., is a general pediatric cardiologist at Weill Cornell Medicine. She received her B.S./M.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology and minor in French Literature from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. She then received her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College and completed her residency in pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Watanabe worked as a pediatric hospitalist in the pediatric cardiac critical care unit at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York at Columbia University Medical Center prior to completing her fellowship in pediatric cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Centerand Weill Cornell Medicine.Dr. Watanabe's research interests include topics in preventive pediatric cardiology, including evaluation and management of pediatric dyslipidemia, hypertension, and promoting healthy lifestyles in children to maximize their cardiovascular wellness. She believes that maintaining cardiovascular wellnessis important for all, and especially paramount for children with congenital heart disease or any other chronic childhood illnesses. Furthermore, she is interested in early childhood determinants of health, including early nutrition and the maternal-fetal environment. Her academic interests include medical education and quality initiatives. She is the associate program director for the Cornell campus for the pediatric cardiology fellowship program. Dr. Watanabe is proficient in Japanese.

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

Biography: I care for children and adolescents who are born with or acquire heart disease, as well as pregnant mothers carrying fetuses who are suspected to have heart disease. My focus is diagnosing heart conditions by interpreting images of the heart, either by ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), prenatally and through adolescence. I was drawn to pediatric cardiology early in my training, when I had the opportunity to care for children with heart disease. I quickly grew passionate about caring for these children and learning to manage the complex varieties of heart conditions. I feel a strong responsibility for keeping kids safe and as healthy as they can be. What I like most about my job is working closely with my patients and their families. It is especially rewarding, as a fetal cardiologist, to meet the parents of my patients before they are born, and to build a strong collaboration that continues after birth and through childhood.In addition, I love to teach students and pediatricians-in-training so that they can gain the knowledge and experience they need to care for their patients. I also take part in research that focuses on assessing outcomes in children with different types of heart disease so that we can improve the quality and safety of care that our team provides. I am fortunate to be part of such an exceptional group at Columbia where our team of heart specialists, in partnership with our colleagues in other pediatric specialties, works tirelessly and compassionately to deliver the best care to our patients.

Care Philosophy: My clinical interests include the fetal and post-natal diagnosis of congenital heart disease and the management of patients after open heart surgery and cardiac catheterization. It is especially gratifying to be able to work closely with families and participate in optimizing the care of infants, children and adolescents with heart disease.

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: Dr. Manoj Chhabra, MD, BS, MBBS is a Doctor primarily located in Brooklyn, NY, with another office in Brooklyn, NY. He has 31 years of experience. His specialties include Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology. Dr. Chhabra is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. He speaks English.