Best Cardiologists and Heart Medicine Doctors in Great Neck, NY

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Dr. Maria Thanjan is the Director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at New York Hospital Queens. She has a particular interest in pediatric echocardiography and cardiac imaging. Dr. Thanjan also specializes in fetal echocardiography allowing her to make the diagnosis of congenital heart lesions prenatally.She feels that it is her goal as a pediatric cardiologist to empower families and patients to make the best most educated decisions in the management of their condition.

Dr. Lewitton is originally from South Africa but grew up in Kansas City. He first moved to Austin in 1991 to attend college at the University of Texas. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with High Honors from UT in 1995, and then moved to Dallas where he attended medical school at the Univerity of Texas Southwestern Medical School. After medical school, Dr. Lewitton completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas before moving to New York City for further training. While in New York, Dr. Lewitton completed his General Cardiology Fellowship at New York University where he served as Chief Fellow before going to Weill Cornell Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hosptial for futher training in Interventional Cardiology and the percutaneous treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease.During Fellowship, Dr. Lewitton was extensively involved in basic science research exploring gap junction molecules and their role in the molecular mechanism responsible for arrhythmias. He also pursued clinical research comparing intravascular ultrasound to computed tomography (CT) in the measurement of coronary plaque burden and complications of peripheral vascular disease. His research has been published in multiple peer reviewed journals.