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Welcome M. Beth Johnson, APN

Beth Johnson, APN joins Cardiology Associates of East Tennessee and Covenant Health, the region’s top-performing healthcare network.

Welcome Umang Shah, MD

Umang Shah, MD joins Cardiology Associates of East Tennessee in Crossville, Tennessee, and Covenant Health, the region’s top-performing healthcare network.

Welcome Lekshmi Seemanthini, MD

Lekshmi Seemanthini, MD joins Cardiology Associates of East Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Covenant Health, the region’s top-performing healthcare network.

Welcome Christy Vollmer, PA-C

Christy Vollmer, PA-C Joins Cardiology Associates of East Tennessee and Covenant Health, the region’s top-performing healthcare network.

Hometown Hero: Loudon Woman Credits Parkwest Doctor for Second Change

We Loudon folks have to take care of each other,” Ayaz Rahman, MD, an interventional cardiologist at Parkwest Medical Center, said as he sat at a conference room table across from 67-year-old Mary Linhart.” Dr. Rahman is an Emory University-trained interventional cardiologist whose niche specialty is structural heart and valve disease – just the kind of […]

Albert R. Blacky, MD Named 2016 Top Doc

Each year, Cityview calls upon the working physicians in our medical community to tell us whom they would recommend if they, a patient, or a loved one needed specialized care. This is not a popularity contest or a paid survey, but rather the opinions of the practicing physicians on the front lines of the healthcare […]

Road Block: Parkwest’s Heart Team Works Together Using PCI to Clear Way for Better Life

Faye Feezell’s huffing and puffing was getting worse. She figured it was her Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) kicking in. The pain across Gil Wheeler’s back and shoulders was so bad that his teeth hurt. He attributed it to the back surgery he’d had a year earlier. Neither was right. Instead, the Harriman woman and […]

House Call: Parkwest Founding Physician Returns for Cardiac Care

Charles Gouffon, MD, was one of the first physicians at Parkwest Medical Center. When Gouffon was experiencing neck and arm pain in December 2014, he went back to his former place of employment as a patient. Read the full story of how CAET Cardiologist A. Robert Blacky, MD, placed an emergency stent in Gouffon’s right coronary artery to […]