Cardiology is the discipline that researches, diagnoses and treats heart injuries
and diseases as well as their causes. A cardiologist will treat your heart problem while staying aware of other conditions, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and other factors that risk damaging the heart. Some of these risk factors include a family history of heart disease, obesity, cigarette smoking, poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle.

Since cardiology is a specialized field of medicine, you should not necessarily rely on your regular healthcare provider to care for your heart. In fact, he or she may well be able to deal with minor problems, but will usually refer you to a specialist if the symptoms appear to be serious. At Saint Joseph's Medical Group we can be your total solution for any medical need that arises.

About Our Cardiologists

Saint Joseph’s Medical Group brings together renowned expertise in all areas of cardiovascular care to provide the best patient care and services. We equip our physicians with the latest technology to ensure that our patients have access to the most advanced, innovative tools fordiagnostic and therapeutic interventions. We feel it is important to establish a relationship with your physician, and the doctor you choose to see will be your primary cardiologist. Our full range of services include: consultative cardiology, risk factor modification, lipid disorder management, exercise stress testing, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI. Two of our physicians, Dr. Stephen Frohwein and Dr. Nicolas Chronos, focus their practice on the early detection of heart disease, with a strong commitment towards prevention and education. Another physician, Dr. Padove, specializes in obstetric cardiology.

We also offer a full range of cutting edge non-surgical treatment options such as carotid artery stenting, coronary artery stenting with state-of-the-art drug eluting stents, ablative treatment of arrhythmias,carotid, renal, and peripheral vascular angioplasty, balloon valvuloplasty for mitral and aortic heart valve disease, endovascular treatment of atherosclerosis, alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, and minimally invasive treatment for atrial septal defects.