Department of Medicine

Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
and Hypertension

The Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension of the Department of Medicine of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is comprised of specialists and subspecialists who perform all aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic inpatient and outpatient care of patients with cardiovascular diseases and hypertension.

The Cardiac Arrhythmia Center is a state-of-the-art resource at the Heart Center of New Jersey. Twelve-lead electrocardiography is used to diagnose a variety of conditions including rhythm disorders and heart attacks. Signal averaged electrocardiography is helpful in differentiating patients at high risk from those at low risk for dangerous heart rhythm disturbances. Ambulatory electrocardiography (Holter monitoring) records all heartbeats over a 24-hour period while patients perform their normal daily activities. This allows evaluation of rhythm disturbances in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. Head upright tilt testing is used to evaluate the cause of light-headedness or loss of consciousness in patients with a history of fainting and can be performed with or without the use of specific adjunctive medications.

In the hospital's Electrophysiology Studies (EPS) Laboratory, catheters positioned within the heart measure electrical activity and vulnerability of the heart to abnormal rhythms and excessively rapid or slow heart rates. The most advanced models of temporary or permanent pacemakers are available to treat dangerously slow rhythms. For treatment of abnormal rhythms with excessively rapid heart rates, medications, transcatheter ablation (using heat energy to interrupt an electrical connection), or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (electrical shock) devices are available to be employed by our skilled arrhythmia experts.

The Center spans inpatient and outpatient activities, is a resource to physicians practicing at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital system and to patients living in central New Jersey.

Chief:

Programs:

Participating RWJUMG Physicians & Professionals:

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Jai B. Agarwal, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

agarwajb@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Interventional Cardiology

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1979

Degree:  

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 1960

Internship:  

Rotating, Youngstown Hospital Association, 1963

Residency:  

Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital & Metropolitan Hospital of New York, 1966

Fellowship:  

Cardiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, 1968


John B. Kostis, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

kostis@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1973

Degree:  

Medical School of the University of Salonica, 1960

Internship:  

Internal Medicine, Brooklyn-Cumberland Medical Center., 1965

Residency:  

Internal Medicine, Brooklyn-Cumberland Medical Center, 1967

Fellowship:  

Cardiology, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1969


Abel E. Moreyra, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

moreyrae@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Cardiac catheterization, coronary angioplasty, interventional cardiology,

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1979

Degree:  

Universidad Nacional de LaPlata, 1967

Residency:  

Cardiovascular Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1973

Fellowship:  

Cardiovascular Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1975


Sebastian T. Palmeri, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

palmerse@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

General cardiology, preventative cardiology, cholesterol management, congestive heart failure, clinical trials

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1983

Degree:  

Georgetown University School of Medicine, 1975

Internship:  

Medicine, Duke University, 1996

Residency:  

Internal Medicine, Duke University, 1978

Fellowship:  

Cardiovascular, Duke University, 1980


Archana Patel, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

patelam@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Cardiac electrophysiology, arrhythmias

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1991

Degree:  

Topiwala National Medical College, 1985

Internship:  

Internal Medicine, Jersey City Medical Center, 1986

Residency:  

Medicine & Cardiology, Jersey City Medical Center, 1988

Fellowship:  

Cardiovascular Diseases, Jersey City Medical Center, 1990


Daniel M. Shindler, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

shindler@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Echocardiography, congenital heart disease

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1991

Degree:  

University of Seville, 1979

Internship:  

Internal Medicine, USPH Service Hospital, 1979

Residency:  

Internal Medicine, USPH Service Hospital, 1981

Fellowship:  

Cardiology, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1983


Alan K. Tannenbaum, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

tannenak@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Pericardial disease, hyperlipidemia & cardiac rehabilitation

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - Eligible

Degree:  

Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 1973

Residency:  

Internal Medicine, French & Polyclinic Health Center, 1975

Fellowship:  

Cardiology, Catholic Medical Center, 1981


Tudor D. Vagaonescu, MD, PhD


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Phone:  

732-235-7208

Fax:  

732-235-6530

Email:  

vagaonescu@medscape.com

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Specialty:  

Cardiovascular Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 2001

Degree:  

Institutul De Medicina Si Farmacie, 1986

Internship:  

Internal Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 1997

Residency:  

Internal Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 1998