Kosta M. Arger, M.D.
Dr. Arger earned his undergraduate
degree at St. Martins
College in
Olympia, Washington
and was graduated from the
University
Of Washington School Of Medicine
in Seattle.
He completed both a medical internship and residency in internal medicine at
the
University of
Nevada, Reno
and a fellowship in cardiology at the
University
of California, Davis.
Dr.
Arger has practiced cardiology in the
Reno
area since 1984. He is an Affiliate Member of the
American
College of
Cardiology, a member of the Board of Governors for
Renown
Regional
Medical
Center and
a member of the Board of Visitors and Advisory Committee to UC Davis School
of Medicine.
David M. Baker, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Baker earned his undergraduate
degree at the
University
of California, Davis
California,
and his Medical Degree from
Creighton
University, Omaha,
Nebraska.
He completed both a medical internship and residency in Internal Medicine at
Oregon
Health & Science University
in Portland, Oregon
and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the
University
of New Mexico,
Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
Dr.
Baker's professional interests include preventive cardiology,
echocardiography, nuclear medicine, and all invasive/non-interventional
cardiology. Dr. Baker joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in April
2006.
Chad M. Bidart, M.D.
Dr. Bidart earned his undergraduate
degree at the
University
of Nevada, Reno,
and his medical degree from the
University
of Nevada,
School of
Medicine, Reno,
Nevada.
He completed his Internal Medicine Residency, as well as a fellowship
in cardiovascular disease at the Mayo Clinic
Arizona.
Dr. Bidart recently joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates after
completing a one-year fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at the
University
of California, Los
Angeles,
California.
Dr.
Bidart was born in
Reno and
raised in Winnemucca and is pleased to be back home.
His particular interests focus on cardiac electrophysiology and his
primary professional goal is to provide comprehensive and compassionate care
to his patients.
Frank P. Carrea, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Carrea earned his undergraduate
degree at State University of New York in
Albany, New York,
and his Medical Degree from State University of New York in
Syracuse,
New York.
He completed both a medical internship and residency in Internal Medicine at
Harvard
Medical
School
and New
England
Deaconess
Hospital
in Boston, Massachusetts
and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the
University
of Colorado,
School of
Medicine in Denver,
Colorado.
Dr. Carrea has practiced cardiology in
Reno
since 1992 and joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in 2001. He is a
Fellow of the
American
College of Cardiology, Board Certified Interventional Cardiologist, and
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the
University
of Nevada, Reno.
Dr. Carrea's
professional interests include complex lipid management, interventional
cardiology (angioplasty and coronary stents), cardiac pacing and ICD
therapy.
Ram M.
Challapalli, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Challapalli earned his undergraduate
degree at
Northwestern
University in
Evanston,
Illinois
and was graduated from the University Of Texas Southwestern Medical School
in Dallas, Texas.
He completed a medical residency in internal medicine at Emory University
School of Medicine in
Atlanta, Georgia.
He completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in
Cleveland, Ohio,
and a fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at
Northwestern
Memorial
Hospital
and Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in
Chicago, Illinois.
Dr.
Challapalli's professional interests include diagnostic and therapeutic
electrophysiology and clinical cardiology. He is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology and a member of the Heart Rhythm Society.
He joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in 1998 after
relocating from
Chicago,
Illinois.
Sridevi Challapalli, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Challapalli earned her undergraduate
degree at
Northwestern
University in
Evanston,
Illinois
and was graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
in Dallas, Texas.
She completed her training in internal medicine at Emory University School
of Medicine in
Atlanta, Georgia
and at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in
Cleveland, Ohio.
She completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at
Northwestern
Memorial
Hospital
in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr.
Challapalli's professional interests include women and heart disease,
nuclear cardiology, and clinical cardiology. She joined Sierra Nevada
Cardiology Associates in January 1998 after relocating from
Chicago,
Illinois.
Dr. Challapalli is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology. She currently serves as
Medical Director, Cardiology Services, at
Renown
South
Meadows
Medical
Center and
Co-Medical Director, Congestive Heart Failure Program,
Renown
Regional
Medical
Center.
Joe Chavez, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Chavez earned his undergraduate
degree at
Stanford
University in
Stanford,
California
and was graduated from Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas.
He completed both a medical internship and residency at the Medical College
of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
and a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at the University of New Mexico
School of Medicine in
Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
Dr.
Chavez's professional interests include congestive heart failure, atrial
fibrillation, echocardiography, and transesophageal echocardiography. He
joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in 1997, relocating to the
Reno
area from
New Mexico.
Dr. Chavez is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology and the American Heart Association Council on Clinical
Cardiology.
Basil E. Chryssos, M.D., F.A.C.C.,
F.S.C.A.I.
Dr. Chryssos earned his undergraduate
degree at
Lycoming
College in
Williamsport,
Pennsylvania
and was graduated from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara,
Guadalajara,
Mexico
and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in
Baltimore.
He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at
Harbor
Medical
Center in
Baltimore. He
completed a fellowship in cardiology at
Cabrini
Medical
Center
in New York
City, and a
fellowship in interventional cardiology at
New York
Hospital, Cornell
Medical Center,
New York,
where he also was appointed Clinical Instructor of Medicine.
Dr.
Chryssos professional interests are pacemaker implantations, cardiac caths
and nuclear cardiology. He joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in
1993. He is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology and Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention. Dr. Chryssos
is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Cardiology at Touro University
Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Eric M. Drummer,
M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Drummer earned his undergraduate
degree at
Case
Western Reserve
University
in Cleveland, Ohio
and was graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in
Bronx,
New York.
He completed both a medical internship and residency in internal medicine at
Montefiore
Hospital and
Medical
Center in Bronx
and a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology, and Electrophysiology at The
Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Dr.
Drummers professional interests include interventional cardiology
(angioplasty, stents), treatments of arrhythmias, pacemakers, and AICDs. He
has practiced cardiology in the
Reno
area since 1986. He is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology and has also passed the American Board of Internal Medicine,
added qualifications in Interventional Cardiology.
Dr. Drummer currently serves as the Director of the Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratory at
Renown
Regional
Medical
Center.
Colin
M. Fuller, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.S.C.A.I.
Dr. Fuller earned his undergraduate
degree at
Bates
College in
Lewiston,
Maine
and was graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in
Boston,
Massachusetts.
He completed both a medical internship and residency in internal medicine at
the
University of
California,
Davis
Medical
Center
in Sacramento
and a Fellowship in Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston,
Texas.
Dr.
Fullers professional interests include treatment of peripheral arterial
disease and cardiac sports medicine. His avocational interests include ski
mountaineering and mountain climbing. He is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology the
American
College of
Physicians, and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention. Dr.
Fuller is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the
University of
Nevada,
Reno. He
has practiced cardiology in the
Reno
area since 1980.
Francis P. Kelley,
M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Kelley earned his undergraduate
degree at the
University
of California, Berkeley
and was graduated from the University of Southern California School of
Medicine in Los
Angeles. He
completed a medical internship, residency in internal medicine and a
cardiovascular disease fellowship at
Valley
Medical
Center
in Fresno
(a
University of
California, San Francisco School of Medicine affiliate program).
Dr.
Kelley joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in 1990. He is a Fellow of
the
American
College of
Cardiology.
Candace
M. McNulty, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. McNulty earned her undergraduate
degree at
Indiana
State
University
and was graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine. She
completed her training in internal medicine and fellowship in clinical
cardiology, and served as Chief Resident at Emory University Hospitals in
Atlanta,
Georgia.
She completed research training in cardiology at
Harvard
Medical
School
in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr.
McNulty joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in August 1993,
relocating from
Rhode Island
where she was an Associate Professor in Medicine and Program Director of the
Cardiology Fellowship at Brown University School of Medicine and Memorial
Hospital of Rhode Island. She is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology.
Michael J. Newmark,
M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I.
Dr. Newmark earned his undergraduate
degree at
Rutgers
University in New
Brunswick,
New Jersey
and was graduated from medical school at the University of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He completed a medical internship at
Montefiore
Hospital in
Pittsburgh.
He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology
at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr.
Newmark was instrumental in bringing coronary angioplasty to
Northern Nevada and was the first physician to perform
directional coronary atherectomy in
Northern Nevada. He also started the first cardiac rehab center
in
Northern Nevada.
His professional interests include interventional cardiology techniques
including complex coronary stenting, new gene therapeutics for growth of new
vessels, and treatment of acute coronary syndromes. Dr. Newmark has
practiced cardiology in the
Reno
area since 1977. He is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology, and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention. In 1999
Dr. Newmark passed the American Board of Internal Medicine, added
qualifications in Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Newmark also serves as the
President for
Sierra Heart Institute and the Medical
Director for Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates Cardiac Catheterization
Laboratory, LLP.
Tom Nylk, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Nylk was graduated from the
Integrated College and Medical School, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
after which he served there as a Staff Physician in the Department of
Cardiology for a period of five years.
He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at
Huron
Hospital in the Cleveland Clinical Health Care System,
Cleveland, Ohio
and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the
Louisiana
State
University
Health
Sciences
Center in
Shreveport,
Louisiana.
Prior to joining Sierra Nevada
Cardiology Associates in August 2007, Dr. Nylk served as a staff physician
in the department of cardiology at the VA Medical Center at
Mather, California
(since July 2003). He also
served as an Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Cardiology,
University
of California-Davis,
Sacramento,
California
(since April 2004). Dr. Nylk is
certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine-Internal Medicine;
American Board of Internal Medicine-Subspecialty in Cardiovascular Disease
and is a Fellow of the
American
College of Cardiology. He has also
passed the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) Exam, an
examination of special competency in cardiac pacing and cardioversion/defibrillation.
His professional interests include clinical cardiology, diagnostic
catheterizations, heart rhythm management and echocardiography.
Velisar L. Rill, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr.
Rill earned his undergraduate degree at the
German
School and
High School,
Bucharest,
Romania and
was graduated from the University of Medicine & Pharmacy "Carol Davila",
Bucharest,
Romania. He
completed his residency in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, Bronx, New York and a cardiology fellowship at St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians
& Surgeons, New York. Dr. Rill completed interventional cardiology training
at NYU School of Medicine, New York.
Dr. Rill joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in November, 2003. He is
board certified in cardiovascular disease and passed the American Board of
Internal Medicine, added qualifications in Interventional Cardiology.
Dr. Rill also passed the American Board of Internal Medicine, added
qualifications in nuclear medicine.
Joseph P. Stevenson, D.O., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Stevenson earned his undergraduate
degree at Southern Illinois University in
Carbondale,
Illinois,
and was graduated from the
Midwestern
University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in
Chicago, Illinois
where he completed a rotating internship. He completed a residency in
Internal Medicine at Rush-Presbyterian, St. Luke's
Medical
Center in Chicago,
Illinois.
He finished his fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Rush-Presbyterian,
St. Luke's
Medical
Center in Chicago,
Illinois
where he served as Chief Fellow. He is a Fellow of the
American
College of Cardiology and a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal
Medicine.
Dr.
Stevenson's professional interests include congestive heart failure, atrial
fibrillation, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and transesophageal
echocardiography. He joined Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates in July 2000
and currently serves as President of Sierra Nevada Cardiology Associates.
Richard H. Bryan,
Jr., M.D., F.A.C.C.
Dr. Bryan earned his undergraduate
degree at the
College
of Idaho in
Caldwell,
Idaho,
and was graduated from the
University
Of Nevada School Of Medicine
in Reno, Nevada.
He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the
University
of Utah
in Salt Lake
City and a
fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the
University
of Kentucky in
Lexington.
Dr.
Bryans professional interests include pacemaker implantation,
echocardiography and non-interventional cardiology. He is a Fellow of the
American
College of
Cardiology, a member of the AOA Medical Honor Society, and a member of the
American Medical Association. Dr.
Bryan also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Washoe
County Medical Society and is presently Secretary of Staff for Saint Mary's
Regional
Medical
Center.
