Dr. Jack Chen helped to establish and is founding faculty of the Institute for Therapy Advancement-Transradial Training Program in Minneapolis. At this institute, he trains invasive and interventional cardiologists from around the nation on advanced transradial catheterization and interventional techniques, utilizing state-of-the-art methods, including 3-D interactive simulations.
October, 2011: Dr. Chen will be speaking at the Indiana University Health Cardiovascular Consortium.
Dr. Jack Chen was recently invited to speak as guest faculty on the advances and benefits of minimally invasive robotic heart surgery at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX. Candidates for this operation do not need to have a chest incision.
Northside Cardiology is proud of Dr. Michael Balk and Dr. Jack Chen for their participarion in the "Advances in Robotic and Hybrid Coronary Revascularization
Conference".
Dr. Balk
spoke on Friday October 29th regarding CT Angiography during the Outcome Monitoring, Training and Clinical Trials session.
Dr. Chen spoke on Thursday October the 28th about patient selection regarding the Beating Heart Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass (BH TECAB) session.
Northside Cardiology is now an Accredited Nuclear Cardiology LaboratoryNorthside Cardiology’s Dr. Michael Balk received the Community Preceptor of the Year Award for the Physician Assistant Program at Emory University School of Medicine. We congratulate Dr. Balk for this recognition and his commitment to supporting medical education.
The American
Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute have launched a new “Act in Time” campaign to
increase people’s
awareness of heart attack and the importance of calling 911 immediately
at the
onset of heart attack symptoms. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/actintime/index.htm
We are excited to announce the opening
of our new office in Cumming/Alpharetta
on January 7, 2008. Just off of GA400 at exit 13.
With the opening of this office we bring a multidisciplinary team
closer to you. This includes providing diagnostic tests
within its new facility to include Echocardiography and Exercise
Treadmill testing. It is located in the Peachtree Parkway Medical
Campus. Please call 678-679-4930 for more details or to
schedule an appointment.
Northside Cardiology has purchased and
is implementing an Electronic Health Record (EHR). Your
records will be available to the provider at either of our locations
via our EHR. You can continue to call the same phone number
you have always used to schedule at either location.
Dr. J Chen was recently
elected as Cardiology Section Chair of Northside Hospital. Dr. Singh
and Silverman have also been past Chairs.
Dr. Balk, Chen and Hafeez are all listed in the "Guide to America's Top
Cardiologists" 2006 edition at
www.consumersresearchcncl.org.
Dr. Chen does the most
radial artery catherizations of all interventional cardiologist at St
Joseph's hospital. This technique offers patients the ability to
mobilize immediately after their intervention. To read more about this
please see our procedures page.
Dr.'s Balk and Brown also perform radial artery catherizations.
The Tower at Northside 5670
Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Suite 880
Atlanta, GA 30342
Phone: 404-256-2525
3400 Old Milton Parkway
Building C, Suite 360
Alpharetta, GA 30005
Phone: 404-256-2525
Accredited
Echocardiography
Laboratory
Our
Dunwoody location
is conveniently located on the north side of Atlanta at the highway
intersection of I-285 and GA 400 in the The Tower at
Northside adjacent to Northside Hospital.
Our Alpharetta office is Located off of Old Milton PKWY
8:30 am to
5:00 pm M-F
During normal office hours, our staff is available for appointment
scheduling, clinical inquiries, and prescription refills. Please call
404-256-2525 to reach one of our staff members.
