Meet the Interventional Cardiology team
Basil M. Paulus, MD
Dr. Paulus is interested in structural heart disease, interventional cardiology (including such procedures as cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, and stent placement), peripheral vascular disease, consultative cardiology, nuclear cardiology, and echocardiography. Dr. Paulus performed the first successful percutaneous aortic valve replacement and the first successful percutaneous mitral valve repair in the Memphis area. These are minimally invasive procedures to repair heart valves. Dr. Paulus previously worked at the Borgess Heart Institute. He is the former Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at St. Francis Hospital, former Chairman of the Division of Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital, and is the Medical Director of the Baptist Valve Clinic. In addition, he is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the site director at Baptist Memphis Hospital for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Cardiology Fellowship.
Shankho Ganguli, MD
Dr. Ganguli is a third-generation physician who has grown up in Memphis and is excited to return home to serve his community. After completing medical school at UT Memphis, he did his residency and fellowships in the Midwest and the East Coast. He is passionate about valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease and peripheral vascular disease. Having lived and trained in different parts of the country, he appreciates the unique need of each patient and the importance of tailoring therapy according to the individual. He enjoys the immediate relief patients experience from successful procedures as much as he enjoys building long term relationships with them and their families.
Jay Gardner, MD
Dr. Gardner is a native Memphian who joined Stern Cardiovascular in August 2014. His interests include general and interventional cardiology including peripheral arterial and peripheral venous disease
Dr. Szatkowski (folks call him Dr. Arie) is the Medical Director of the Baptist-Stern Joint Venture that oversees the cardiovascular services for the Metro Baptist Hospital System. He is also acting President of the Medical Staff at Baptist Desoto Hospital and Director of Cardiovascular Services and Echocardiography lab at Baptist Desoto Hospital, voted number one cardiac hospital in Mississippi. He is also the Director of Quality for The Stern Cardiovascular Foundation. Through these roles he has facilitated the direction of cardiac care to focus on patient experience, quality, better value and better outcomes.
Dr. Swe-Siegel is originally from Burma (Myanmar) and she grew up in Orange County, California, where she attended college. She went to St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies for medical school. She completed her residency and fellowship trainings in Jackson, Mississippi. Stern Cardiovascular is the first group that Dr. Swe-Siegel joined after her fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease. Her interests within cardiovascular disease are consultative cardiology, cardiovascular diseases in women, performing transesophageal echocardiogram for structural heart diseases and procedures, interpreting transthoracic echocardiogram and different types of stress testing.
Gilbert J. Zoghbi, MD
Dr. Zoghbi has several professional interests including general cardiology, interventional cardiology (complex coronary interventions, peripheral vascular and carotid interventions, percutaneous PFO/ASD closure, and aortic valvuloplasty), nuclear cardiology, and echocardiography. In the academic field, Dr. Zoghbi has extensive experience including Director, Cardiac Care Unit, Birmingham VA Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Birmingham VA Medical Center; Director, interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Scientist, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Director, Chest Pain Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.