Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care

Dr. Amar Patel received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and went on to complete a fellowship in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at Emory University. Dr. Patel is a professional member of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention.

Dr. Patel is board-certified in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. He is a member of several medical and professional societies. He has advanced training in cardiac and peripheral vascular imaging and extensive experience in clinical research. Dr. Patel's areas of interest include: percutaneous coronary intervention, structural heart disease/congenital heart defects, and valvular hear disease.

Dr. Patel joined Wellstar in August 2007. He is currently on staff at Wellstar Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone and Paulding hospitals. When not at work, Dr. Patel loves to spend time with his wife and children. He also enjoys traveling and reading.

Dr. Riley, a cardiac electrophysiologist, received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and philosophy from the Rockhurst University in 1996, and went on to attend medical school at Georgetown University. After completing his internship and residency at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, he completed his cardiovascular disease training at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He then spent two years at Emory University.

Dr. Riley is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology. He worked with Solaris Heart for two years before joining us at Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care.

Dr. Brett Tomashitis is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist with specialized expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of Heart Rhythm Disorders. Dr. Tomashitis earned his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Microbiology from Clemson University, graduating from the Calhoun Honors College Summa Cum Laude with Faculty Honors.

He received his Medical Degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He continued his Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at MUSC. He then further specialized in Cardiac Electrophysiology at Emory University, serving as Chief Fellow.

Dr. Tomashitis specializes in Cardiac Electrophysiology including complex Arrhythmia Management, Cardiac Implantable Electrical Devices (Pacemakers, Defibrillators, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Leadless Technology), extraction, and Advanced Ablation. His interests include Leadless Technology and Complex Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia, including utilization of Pulsed Field Ablation. Dr. Tomashitis is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease and is Board-Eligible in Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is a member of the American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society.

Dr. Tomashitis was born and raised in Columbia, SC. In his free time, he enjoys international travel, scuba diving, and fitness.

Dr. Mohammad Kooshkabadi, a cardiac electrophysiologist, received his medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. He completed his internship and residency at Columbia University Medical Center and Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York. He completed his cardiology and his clinical electrophysiology fellowships at Emory University, Atlanta. He specializes in arrhythmia management, cardiac ablations, pacemaker implants including leadless pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and biventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillators.

Dr. Kanuru attended both college and medical school at the University of Miami and graduated from the six-year combined bachelor's/medical degree program in 1994. During that period, he spent one year at the University of Tuebingen in Germany as a Foreign Studies Scholar. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Emory University. Following a cardiology fellowship at the University of Tennessee, he returned to Atlanta and completed a two-year cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Emory University in 2002.

Dr. Kanuru is board-certified in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. He is a member of the Heart Rhythm Society. He joined Wellstar in July 2002, and is fully trained in all aspects of invasive electrophysiology, including bi-ventricular pacemakers/ICDs, complex arrhythmia management and ablation, transeptal catheterization, and transvenous lead extraction.

A native of Sheffield, AL, Dr. Kanuru is married with two children and now resides in Marietta. He is an automotive enthusiast, an avid reader and enjoys hiking and running.

Dr. Jennifer Giuseffi received her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. She completed internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and served as chief medical resident during her senior year. Dr. Giuseffi went on to a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Vanderbilt University and served as chief cardiology fellow.

Her special interests include women and heart disease, cardiac intensive care, aortic disease, prevention and cardiac imaging.

Dr. Giuseffi is currently on staff at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital with her primary clinical practice at the Wellstar East Cobb Health Park. She is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Medical Association and the American Heart Association.

Dr. Giuseffi is married with two children.

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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 .

Dr. Ahmed AlBadri is an interventional cardiologist with particular expertise in minimally invasive catheter-based therapies for the treatment of heart disease, including heart valve issues, heart vessels disease and holes in the heart. Over recent years, he has performed many of these procedures with both commercially and emerging research devices, having completed his interventional cardiology fellowship in one of the most prestigious institutions in the world. He also gained expertise in treating both chronic total occlusions (CTO) and most complex coronary lesions subsets during his training.

Dr. AlBadri’s research interest focuses on developing minimally invasive techniques to manage complex blockages in the heart vessels, heart valves such as transcatheter aortic and mitral valve repair and replacement. He received multiple grants to support his clinical research and has been co-investigator in many national and international studies, evaluating new treatment devices for heart conditions. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high impact journals and is regularly invited to speak at leading national and international conferences.
He appreciates physicians’ collaboration at Wellstar, where he works closely with other cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. This collaboration enables patients to benefit from the team’s collective experience and expertise.

“One of my most important duties, as a physician, is to listen to my patients’ concerns and guide them to understand their medical condition. We can work on fixing it together.”

“My goal is to provide my patients the energy and the ability to do their hobbies, while spending quality time with their loved ones without symptoms. I will do my best to make this possible for my patients.”

Dr. Piedad is a board-certified cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Georgetown University and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. Dr. Piedad received his medical degree from the University of Rochester and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

He completed his residency in internal medicine at the New York University Medical Center and his fellowship training at the New York University Medical Center for cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology.

Dr. Piedad specializes in cardiac electrophysiology. His interests include complex arrhythmia management, permanent pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization devices, electrophysiologic studies, and ablations for cardiac arrhythmias: including ablation for atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. He is particularly interested in ablation for atrial fibrillation.

He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and is a member of the Heart Rhythm Society and the Cobb County Medical Society.