Piedmont Heart Institute
Aspen Cottage
Suite A-300
PH: (706) 453-9669
Piedmont Heart Institute (ACG) at Lake Oconee, practicing at Cowles Clinic, provides cardiac consultation, diagnostic testing and management of heart related problems. Ranked among the top cardiovascular programs in the country, ACG specializes in the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease. Our nationally renowned physicians, practicing at over a dozen locations throughout the state of Georgia, are actively involved in research trials that help determine the future of cardiac medicine.
Our cardiologists maintain a full time practice during the week and are available on call twenty-four hours a day. Many on-site services are available including cardiac consultation, preventive cardiology, pacemaker clinic, nuclear stress testing and echocardiography. We also offer holter and event monitors, an on-campus blood lab and a Coumadin Clinic. ACG physicians perform outpatient heart catheterizations in our dedicated laboratory in Atlanta and at numerous hospitals throughout the state. Interventional procedures, including angioplasties and stents, electrophysiology procedures, including placement of pacemakers and defibrillators, and cardiac transplantation are performed at Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta.
Kenneth G. McGrath, Jr., D.O.
- Undergraduate: Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)
- Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Residency: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cardiology
- Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease
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Jeffrey E. Smith, M.D.
- Undergraduate: University of California, San Diego
- Medical School: John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii
- Internship/Residency: Internal Medicine, Reading Hospital and Medical Center, West Reading, Pennsylvania.
- Fellowship: Cardiology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California
- Board Certification: Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease
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Dr. Bradford Lipman
- Medical School: Medical College of Georgia in Augusta
- Fellowship: University of Florida
- Residency: Parkland Memorial Hospital, Internal Medicine
- Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine and its Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease; National Board of Medical Examiners; American Board of Cardiovascular Disease.
Dr. Joseph Miller
- Undergraduate: Emory University
- Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine
- Residency: Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Fellowship: Emory University, Cardiology
- Board Certification: Internal Medicine and Cardiology with subspecialties in Cardiovascular Disease and Prevention, Invasive Cardiology and Echocardiography.
Dr. John-Francis Hennecken
- Undergraduate: Saint John's University
- Medical School: S.U.N.Y. Health Science Center
- Residency: Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Bronx Municipal Hospital
- Fellowship: Yale University, Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Board Certification: Internal Medicine with subspecialties in Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology and Nuclear Cardiology.
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