From left to right: Stéphane Rinfret, MD; Zachary George, MD; Olga Toleva, MD People in Northeast Georgia now have more choices for advanced lifesaving heart care. Georgia Heart Institute, the comprehensive heart and vascular service line of Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS), recently welcomed interventional cardiologists Zachary George, MD; Stéphane Rinfret, MD; and Olga Toleva, […]
Bobby Bobo, a native of Hawkinsville, Georgia, visited his cardiologist and received some unwanted news: he had multiple blockages in his heart which appeared to be calcified and his only option was to have open heart surgery – not his first choice of treatment. The former cow farmer, Vietnam veteran and cancer survivor decided to […]
In November of 2022, Glen Henry, MD, FACC, FSCAI, made the move southward from Yale University after 30 years as an educator and leader to become Georgia Heart Institute’s new Director of Interventional Cardiology and Cath Labs. During his time at Yale, Dr. Henry served as assistant professor of clinical medicine and Director of Complex […]
At your last appointment with the cardiologist, you were told you needed to have a heart stent implanted. But what is a stent, and why do you need one? Those are natural questions to have! Unless you have a medical background or know someone who has had a stent implanted, you probably don’t know the […]