Our Heart & Vascular Team

UChicago Medicine’s heart and vascular care team includes some of the nation’s best minds in cardiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery and research. Our experts offer treatments not available at other hospitals, providing hope for patients with even the most complex conditions.

Meet Our Heart and Vascular Team

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Karima Addetia, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Francis Alenghat, MD, PhD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Zaid Aziz, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Trissa A. Babrowski, MD

Vascular Surgery
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Husam H. Balkhy, MD

Cardiac Surgery (Heart Surgery)
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Andrew Beaser, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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John Blair, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Michael H. Davidson, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Jeanne DeCara, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Chelsea Dorsey, MD

Vascular Surgery
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Michael Earing, MD

Pediatric Cardiology
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Jonathan Grinstein, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Narutoshi Hibino, MD, PhD

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
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Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD

Cardiac Surgery (Heart Surgery)
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Sara Kalantari, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Rohan Kalathiya, MD

Interventional Cardiology
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Gene Kim, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Roberto M. Lang, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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James K. Liao, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Ross Milner, MD

Vascular Surgery
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Sandeep Nathan, MD, MS

Interventional Cardiology
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Hemal M. Nayak, MD

Cardiac Electrophysiology
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Ann Nguyen, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Mahmoud Okash, MD

Thoracic Surgery
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David Onsager, MD

Thoracic Surgery
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Takeyoshi Ota, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery
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Cevher Ozcan, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Amit R. Patel, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Jonathan D. Paul, MD

Interventional Cardiology
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Miroslav Peev, MD

Cardiac Surgery (Heart Surgery)
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Sean Pinney, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Luka Pocivavsek, MD, PhD

Vascular Surgery
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Tamar Polonsky, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Nitasha Sarswat, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Atman P. Shah, MD

Interventional Cardiology
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Amita Singh, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Christopher Skelly, MD

Vascular Surgery
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Bryan Smith, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Tae H. Song, MD

Thoracic Surgery
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Matthew Sorrentino, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Corey Tabit, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Gianluca Torregrossa, MD

Cardiac Surgery (Heart Surgery)
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Roderick Tung, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Gaurav A. Upadhyay, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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R. Parker Ward, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)
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Bow Young Chung, MD

Cardiology (Heart Care)

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