Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute

A new era of healthcare was ushered in today as Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health, including Wake Forest School of Medicine, officially joined together as a single enterprise, Atrium Health. Both health systems are renowned for their clinical expertise and the school of medicine is nationally recognized for its medical education programs and research. With the strategic combination now complete, the collective vision to transform medical education, expand patient-centered research and innovation, and define the next generation of clinical excellence becomes a reality.

Care team

• Dermot Phelan MD, PhD, FASE, FACC
• • Co-Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center
• • Medical Director, Cardiovascular Imaging
• • Director, Gragg Center for Cardiovascular Performance
• Shuktika Nandkeolyar MD
• • Co-Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center
• • Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology
• George Mawardi MD
• • Cardiovascular Imaging
• Joseph Mishkin MD, FACC
• • Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology
• Larry Watts MD
• • Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Jonathan Schwartz MD
• • Interventional Cardiology
• Sumy Joseph PhD, FACMG
• • Genetics
• Randall Bryant MD, FACC
• • Pediatric Cardiology
• David Lawrence MD, FAAP, FHRS
• • Pediatric Cardiology
• Lucy Rashid AGNP-C, CHFN
• • Nurse Practitioner
• Lisa Johnston AGACNP-BC
• • Nurse Practitioner
• Melissa Lang BSN, RN, CAPM
• • HCM Program Coordinator
• • Clinical Research Nurse