Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care

Dr. Lourie, a board-certified invasive cardiologist, was born and raised in Columbia, SC. He received his undergraduate and medical degree from Emory University. After training in internal medicine at Emory, he completed his cardiology fellowship at Tufts University/St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, MA. He is fully trained in cardiac catheterization, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography and permanent pacemaker implantation.

Dr. Lourie is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of several medical societies.

Dr. Lourie has been in private practice in Cobb and Douglas counties since 1998. He is a past chief of staff of Wellstar Cobb Hospital and past chairman of the Department of Medicine from 2002-2008. He also is the chief of the cardiology section and sits on the Medical Executive Committee at Wellstar Douglas Hospital. He is currently on staff at Wellstar Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone and Paulding hospitals.

When not enjoying the practice of medicine, Dr. Lourie finds great pleasure in spending time with his wife and three sons. He enjoys fitness/sports, reading, writing and gardening. On the rare occasion that time permits, he enjoys playing a round of golf.

Dr. Jacob N. Blatt, a cardiac electrophysiologist, is an Atlanta native. He graduated with honors from Duke University and earned a bachelor’s degree in Biological Anthropology & Anatomy. After receiving his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he was appointed a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School while completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He returned home to Atlanta and completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology at Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Blatt is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease, and is board-eligible in cardiac electrophysiology. He is a member of the Heart Rhythm Society, American Heart Association and the Medical Honor Society Alpha Omega Alpha. He joined Wellstar in August of 2010, and is fully trained in all aspects of invasive cardiac electrophysiology including pacemakers, defibrillators, resynchronization therapy, complex arrhythmia management and ablation, transeptal catheterization, and transvenous lead extraction. He has a special interest in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.

Dr. Blatt is married and the father of two children. When not practicing medicine, he enjoys spending time with his family and has always been an avid Atlanta Braves fan.

A native of New Orleans, Dr. Reitman is a board certified cardiologist who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 1991 and then earned a medical degree from Louisiana State University, New Orleans, in 1995. After completing an internship and residency in internal medicine at Tufts Affiliated Hospitals in Boston, MA, Dr. Reitman completed a Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Brown University, Providence, R.I. After an Interventional Fellowship at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, completed 2002, Dr Reitman started clinic practice in Marietta , GA.

Instrumental towards bringing interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery to Cobb County, Dr Reitman has been a perennial high volume operator, and has played an integral role in the development of Complex PCI, Cardiogenic Shock and Structural Heart Teams for Wellstar Health Systems. Teaching activities have involved live rotational atherectomy courses and complex interventional courses for interventional physicians from around the country.Starting as a three-physician interventional group at one hospital, Dr Reitman helped grow an interventional program that now touches a broad geography across the Atlanta metropolitan area, represented by over 18 interventional physicians in 9 separate cardiac cath labs. He has served as the system level cardiac catheterization lab director since 2009.

Dr Reitman has been involved in a number of coronary and structural heart trials in collaboration with other Wellstar physicians, including trials involving the Synergy and Onyx platforms, the Edwards Sapien and Evolut valves. Reitman has been involved with the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Cardiology since his arrival in Atlanta in 2002 .