PHYSICIANS

M. Alycia Hassett, MD
Education:  Undergraduate: Duke University 1974
Medical School: Duke University 1978
Internal Medicine: Emory University 1981
Fellowship: Duke University 1984
Certification: Internal Medicine 1981,Cardiovascular Diseases 1985
Interests: Preventative cardiology, Diagnostic catheterization, Women and Heart Disease

Robert A. Buchanan Jr., MD
Education:  Undergraduate: University of North Carolina 1965
Medical School: Wake Forest University 1969
Internal Medicine: Vanderbilt University 1972
Fellowship: University of Alabama 1974
Certification: Internal Medicine 1972; Cardiology 1975
Interests: Clinical cardiology, Diagnostic catheterization

 

William S. Abernathy, MD
Education:  Undergraduate: Grinnell College  1965
Medical School: Columbia University  1969  
Internal Medicine: Presbyterian Hospital, New York 1971,
University of Michigan  1972
Fellowship: University of Michigan 1975
Certification: Diagnostic cardiology, psychological aspects of medical illness, cardiac arrythmias

J. Stewart Jones, DO
Education:  Undergraduate: Baylor University 1983   
Postgraduate: Michigan State University College of
Oseopathic Medicine  1987
Internal Medicine: Michigan State University 1991 
Fellowship: University of Pittsburgh 1992; University of Missouri 1995
Certification: Internal Medicine 1991; Cardiovascular Diseases 1995
Interests:  Nuclear Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Vascular Disease

 

Michael Komada, MD
Education: Undergraduate: University of North Carolina 1989
Medical School: Wake Forest University 1993  
Internal Medicine: University of Virginia 1996
Fellowship: Wake Forest University 2003
Certification:  Internal Medicine 1996, Cardiology 2003, Interventional Cardiology 2004
Interests: Interventional cardiology, Nuclear cardiology,
Peripheral vascular disease

Elizabeth Henke, MD
Education:  Undergraduate:  University of Wales 1974
Medical School:  Welsh National School of Medicine 
Internal Medicine:  University of North Carolina 1981
Fellowship: Duke University 1986
Certification:  Internal Medicine 1980, Medical Genetics 1982,
Diseases 1987
Interests:  Vascular Ultrasound

Gary K. Deweese, MD
Education:  Undergraduate:  Duke University 1982
Medical School: Duke University 1986 
Internal Medicine: Duke University 1989
Fellowship:Duke University 1991
Certification: Internal Medicine 1989, Cardiovascular
disease 1991, Nuclear Cardiology 2006
Interests: Cardiac catheterization, Nuclear Cardiology, Congestive heart failure

Burton O. Shelton, FNP-C
Education:  Undergraduate: University of North Carolina 1994
BSN: University of North Carolina 2001
MSN: Duke University 2004
Certification: Family Nurse Practitioner
Interests: Lipid disorders

 

Gail S. Shaeffer, ANP-C
Education: BSN: Ohio State University 1982;
MSN: Duke University 1996
Interests: Congestive heart failure