Heart Care Specialists

Your Physicians (please scroll below to see the full list of heart institute specialists on staff)

Rush-Copley Heart Institute is fortunate to have cardiovascular specialists that provide state-of-the-art care. Many have specialized in specific areas and your primary care physician may ask more than one of these "sub-specialists" to help direct your care.

Specialists include:

Cardiologists - specialist in the medical aspects of cardiovascular disease such as coronary artery disease, heart attack, valve disorders, congestive heart failure, and arrhythmias.

Cardiothoracic Surgeons - specialist who performs complex procedures such as coronary bypass, valve, aortic, and lung surgery.

Vascular Surgeons - specialist in blood vessel diseases and performs surgeries such as bypass, carotid, aortic surgery, aneurysm repair, etc.

Interventional Cardiologists - specialist in opening arteries using procedures such as angioplasty or stent placement in your heart and blood vessels in other peripheral areas of the body.

Cardiac Electrophysiologists - specialist in abnormal heart rhythms, puts in pacemakers and defibrillators, and performs special procedures on heart arrhythmias.

Nuclear Medicine Specialists - A cardiologist or radiologist who performs or interprets heart studies such as the thallium stress test.

Echocardiographers - specialist in advanced ultrasound techniques who performs transesophageal echocardiography.