Meet Our Team
Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
RWJBarnabas Health's Heart, Vascular and Thoracic team is proud to offer patients throughout New Jersey the most comprehensive network of cardiovascular and thoracic care featuring industry leading noninvasive, invasive, and diagnostic therapies. Our clinical Programs and Specialties are comprised of nationally recognized medical specialists working alongside the highest qualified team of nurses, technicians, pharmacists and many others. To provide our unique brand of integrated, compassionate and quality care, RWJBarnabas Health has developed virtual disease based centers of excellence called “Integrated Leadership Groups (ILGs).” Our ILGs manage disease-based, system-wide initiatives primarily focused on: best practice adoption, care management, research, care standardization, protocols and new program development, all of which are centered on you, the patient.
The Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Program ILG leaders listed below are only a sample of our extensive list of specialists who make RWJBarnabas Health your destination for care.
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Anthony Altobelli, III, MD, FACC
CARDIOLOGY
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Persida S. Drotar, MD
Surgery-Thoracic and Cardiac | Transplantation
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Claudia G. Gidea, MD, FACC
CARDIOLOGY-ADVANCED HEART FAILURE AND TRANSPLANT | TRANSPLANTATION
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Jesus A. Gomez-Abraham, MD
Surgery-Thoracic and Cardiac and Transplantation
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Hirohisa Ikegami, MD
SURGERY-THORACIC AND CARDIAC
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Deepa B. Iyer, MD
Cardiology-Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
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Matthew Montgomery, DO, MPH, MBA
Cardiology, Cardiology-Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, Cardiology-Interventional and Transplantation
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Mark J. Russo, MD
SURGERY-THORACIC AND CARDIAC
TRANSPLANTATION
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Louis H. Stein, MD, PhD
Surgery-Thoracic and Cardiac