Cardiology | Women’s Heart Health Annabelle Santos Volgman is director of the RUSH Heart Center for Women and a prominent leader of the Go Red for Women movement. She is active in the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology and is a frequent lecturer nationally and locally.
Preventive Cardiology | Heart and Vascular Care Daniel Luger is a cardiologist who specializes in preventing and treating heart and vascular disease. He leads a preventive cardiology center where he cares for patients who have risk factors for heart and vascular disease, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and sedentary lifestyle.
Interventional Cardiology | Cardiovascular Disease
Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu
Faisal Hasan is the chief of cardiology at RUSH. His focus is on investigating outcomes in patients who have myocardial infarction and have coexisting polyvascular disease.
Interventional Cardiology | Cardiovascular Disease
Gaurav Dhar is an interventional cardiologist and section chief of structural heart disease at RUSH. Dhar is also the program director of our structural heart disease fellowship.
Cardiovascular Disease
Joanne Sutter is a medical cardiologist and assistant professor of cardiology at RUSH. Sutter uses non-invasive treatments to manage heart disease and heart disease risks. She's also an expert on thoracic cardio imaging, which is used to diagnose heart conditions.
Advanced Heart Failure | Transplant Cardiology
Languages: English, Polish
Karolina Marinescu is a cardiologist at RUSH whose expertise includes cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, heart disease in women and heart transplants.
Cardiovascular Disease
Melissa Tracy is a noninvasive cardiologist at RUSH. Her areas of expertise include echocardiography and primary and secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease. She is also the medical director for our cardiac rehabilitation program.
Heart Rhythm Disorders | Electrophysiology Languages: English, Hindi Parik Sharma is a cardiologist who specializes in managing rhythm disorders of the heart. He is a nationally recognized electrophysiologist and expert in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, including ablation and pacemaker implantation.
Cardiovascular Disease | Women's Heart Health
Languages: English, Gujarati
Rupa Sanghani is the director of RUSH's stress lab and nuclear imaging lab. She's also the associate director for the RUSH Heart Center for Women. Sanghani's clinical interests include pregnancy-related heart disease, cardiovascular risk assessment and counseling and heart disease prevention.
Sports Cardiology
Sean Swearingen is a sports cardiology expert. His other clinical interests include coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, preventive cardiology and peripheral vascular disease.
Cardiovascular Disease | Women's Heart Health
Languages: English, Mandarin
Shannon Li is a cardiologist and assistant professor at RUSH. Her clinical interests include women's heart health and coronary microvascular dysfunction.
