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Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care

6001 Professional Parkway
Suite 2080
Douglasville, GA 30134
Our Areas of Focus

Leading Expertise

Our team of physicians have advanced training and are often double and triple board-certified in cardiac specialties to provide the highest level of expertise and care. 

Advanced Treatments

Our experts offer state-of-the-art technology, treatments, complex surgery and clinical trials that are not often found at community hospitals.  

Patient-Centered Care

We understand every person is unique, so our heart specialists create a personalized treatment plan to help you achieve your best heart health.

Comprehensive Services

From routine to complex heart conditions, our multidisciplinary team of cardiovascular experts work together to offer comprehensive care for the heart, body and mind. 

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The Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care offers nationally-recognized comprehensive heart care. Our team of heart experts includes board-certified doctors who subspecialize in different areas so patients have access to the care they need, when they need it. We work closely with all heart subspecialists at Wellstar and can connect you with electrophysiologists, structural heart specialists, cardiovascular surgeons, advanced heart failure specialists and more.

From routine to complex cardiovascular disease, our doctors are experts in creating a tailor-made treatment plan that’s right for you. Physicians at this location offer patients high-quality care in the following areas: 
 
  • General cardiology for a variety of heart conditions
  • Heart rhythm disorders
  • Interventional cardiology

Wellstar cardiologists offer the latest innovations and clinical therapies to help you reach your best cardiovascular health. We focus our skill and expertise on crafting a treatment plan tailored for you. Learn more about general cardiology at Wellstar.

Heart rhythm disorders

Cardiac electrophysiologists at Wellstar offer treatment for atrial fibrillation (A-fib) and heart arrhythmias with advanced diagnostic and treatment technology. Learn more about heart rhythm disorder care at Wellstar.

Interventional cardiology

Wellstar’s highly-skilled interventional cardiologists use catheter-based techniques to stop and prevent heart attacks, and ultimately, to save lives. These minimally-invasive treatments are an alternative to open-heart surgery, with a shorter hospital stay, a faster recovery and less pain. Learn more about interventional cardiology at Wellstar.
Office Location
6001 Professional Parkway
Suite 2080
Douglasville, GA 30134

Contact

Phone (678) 715-5080

Fax (770) 942-6420


Hours
Monday: 7:45 AM-5:00 PM Tuesday: 7:45 AM-5:00 PM Wednesday: 7:45 AM-5:00 PM Thursday: 7:45 AM-5:00 PM Friday: 7:45 AM-5:00 PM
Open Closes 5:00 PM

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Meet our Team

Michael Hardee, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2006.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Adam Lourie, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 1998.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Micah Tepper, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2006.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Hanna Akiki, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2007.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Nicole Arrington, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Jared Breyley, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2019.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Gray Akoegbe, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2019.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Virginia Sullivan, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2002.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Daisy Ngwainmbi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Malak Modi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Melida Brandt, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2017.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Arthur Reitman, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2002.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Stephanie Wang, MD

Cardiac Electrophysiologist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiac Electrophysiology
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Joshua Willis, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2016.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Meet our Team

Michael Hardee, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2006.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Adam Lourie, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 1998.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Micah Tepper, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2006.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Hanna Akiki, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2007.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Nicole Arrington, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Jared Breyley, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2019.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Gray Akoegbe, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2019.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Virginia Sullivan, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2002.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Daisy Ngwainmbi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Malak Modi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Melida Brandt, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2017.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Arthur Reitman, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2002.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Stephanie Wang, MD

Cardiac Electrophysiologist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiac Electrophysiology
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Joshua Willis, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2016.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Michael Hardee, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2006.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Dr. Hardee is an invasive cardiologist with special interests in valvular heart disease and nuclear cardiology. He graduated as valedictorian from Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Fla. In 1988, he received his bachelor’s degree in biological and medical sciences from the University of Florida in 1988. He was granted early entry into medical school via the Junior Honors Accelerated Program at the University of Florida and, in 1992, received his medical degree. Dr. Hardee completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Emory University in 1995. He then completed his cardiology fellowship training at Duke University in 1998.
 
 
Dr. Hardee is board certified in cardiovascular disease and nuclear cardiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Heart Association. He served as director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Winter Park Hospital in Orlando, Fla. and now serves as director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Wellstar Douglas Hospital. He was also co-chairman of the noninvasive cardiology and critical care committees at Florida Hospital in Orlando.
 
 
Dr. Hardee joined Cardiovascular Medicine in June 2007. He is currently on staff at Wellstar Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone and Paulding hospitals. He is married with a daughter and son.

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Adam Lourie, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 1998.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Doctor of Medicine
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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.

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Micah Tepper, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2006.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Doctor of Medicine
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Micah R. Tepper, M.D., F.A.C.C, graduated from Stanford University with an undergraduate degree in health care economics and policy. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Missouri, he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Dr Tepper then completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Tepper joined Wellstar Cardiovascular Medicine in 2011 after practicing in Georgia with The Heart Clinic, P.C. from 2006 to 2011. He is an invasive cardiologist and is trained in cardiac catheterization, transthoracic/esophageal echocardiography, cardiovascular computed tomography and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Tepper is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease.

Dr. Tepper practices at Wellstar Cobb and Douglas Hospitals. He is the Cardiology Section Chief and is also the Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Wellstar Douglas Hospital. Dr. Tepper is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

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Hanna Akiki, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2007.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
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Doctor of Medicine
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Dr Akiki is a board certified cardiologist. He received his medical degree from the Lebanese University, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Beirut, Lebanon.

He completed his internship and residency at Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, NY where he was also elected to be the chief medical resident for a year. He completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the State University of NY at Brooklyn.

Dr Akiki entered private practice in 2001. He has been practicing in Cobb and Douglas counties since 2007 with The Heart Clinic and Emory Heart and Vascular.

He Joined in Wellstar in Nov 2014 and he is currently on staff at Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone, and Paulding hospitals.

Dr Akiki is board certified in Cardiovascular Medicine and in Nuclear Cardiology. He is a fellow of the American College of cardiology.

When he is not busy taking care of his patients, Dr Akiki enjoys outdoor activities and spending time with his family.

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Nicole Arrington, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
Education
Master of Nursing

Jared Breyley, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2019.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Doctor of Medicine
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Gray Akoegbe, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2019.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
Education
Doctor of Medicine
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Virginia Sullivan, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2002.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
Education
Master of Science in Nursing
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Daisy Ngwainmbi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
Education
Doctor of Medicine
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Malak Modi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Specialist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
Education
Doctor of Medicine
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Melida Brandt, NP

Nurse Practitioner with Wellstar since 2017.

Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease
Education
Master of Science in Nursing
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Arthur Reitman, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2002.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
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Doctor of Medicine
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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 .

Stephanie Wang, MD

Cardiac Electrophysiologist with Wellstar since 2025.

Specialties
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Education
Doctor of Medicine
Patient Rating

Dr. Stephanie Wang, a Cardiac Electrophysiologist, is an Atlanta native proud to return home and serve her community as part of the Wellstar Cardiology Team. She earned her Undergraduate Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She did her Internal Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Wang then went on to complete fellowships in both Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Emory University School of Medicine. Prior to joining Wellstar, she practiced in Madison, Wisconsin, where she treated a wide range of Arrhythmias and performed advanced Electrophysiology procedures, including Catheter Ablations and Device Implantations.

Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Dr. Wang is fully trained in complex comprehensive Electrophysiology care. Her clinical interests include Atrial Fibrillation, including Concomitant Ablation and Watchman Implant, Pacemaker and Defibrillator Therapy, and Long-Term Rhythm Management.

Outside of work, Dr. Wang and her husband Mircea, an Interventional Radiologist, enjoy traveling internationally, music and culture immersions, and exercising. She’s thrilled to be back in Atlanta and looks forward to building long-term relationships with patients in the community she’s always called home!

Joshua Willis, MD

Cardiologist with Wellstar since 2016.

Specialties
Interventional Cardiology
Education
Doctor of Medicine
Patient Rating

Dr. Joshua Willis received his bachelor's degree from Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, La. He received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. Dr. Willis completed his internal medicine residency at Tulane University in New Orleans, La. He completed his cardiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Willis completed his interventional cardiology fellowship at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Dr. Willis is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. He is a fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention and the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Willis currently is in practice with Wellstar Cardiovascular Medicine.

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Please call our office or book online through MyChart to schedule an appointment. Same-day visits are available for urgent health issues. 

You are responsible to notify us of cancellations. We ask that all appointments be canceled 24 hours prior to the appointment. If you are more than 15 minutes late for your appointment, it will need to be rescheduled.

We use an automated appointment reminder system to notify patients two days prior to your appointment. 
 
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Wellstar accepts most medical insurance plans. We work hard to create lasting relationships with insurance companies to ensure you can receive the care you need.

Please call our office if you need help understanding your insurance coverage and financial responsibility.

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We do not require a referral to schedule an appointment. However, sometimes insurance plans require a referral for office visits. If that is the case with your insurance plan, a referral must be received prior to your visit.
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Some basic diagnostics — such as EKGs — are performed in our office. 

We partner with Wellstar Cardiac Diagnostics to provide state-of-the-art cardiac imaging. We provide quality results with the most advanced technology, registered technologists and board-certified cardiac radiologists.

Learn more about cardiac diagnostics at Wellstar and find the location nearest you.

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Wellstar’s world-class cardiac rehabilitation team works together to help people learn lifelong heart-healthy behaviors and lower their risk for future heart issues.

The goal of cardiac rehabilitation is to significantly decrease or eliminate the risk factors that cause a progression of coronary artery disease. We start with a thorough evaluation, then create a plan of monitored exercise, lifestyle education and emotional support designed just for you.

Learn more about cardiac rehabilitation at Wellstar and find the location nearest you. 

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