General Practitioners

• Primary Care
  Georgia Heart Specialists provides extensive consultation for a vast array of cardiovascular problems and long term continuing care, along with your primary care physician, for those patients with established cardiovascular disease. We also do pacemaker and defibrillator monitoring for all brands of devices and Coumadin monitoring.
• Smoking Cessation
  Smoking Cessation Guidelines The latest drugs and counseling techniques for treating tobacco use and dependence are provided here.
• Electrocardiogram
  Holter or Event Monitor - EKG you wear at home for either 1 day or 30 days to look for abnormal heart rhythms.

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Dr. Hanson was born in Washington, D.C. He received his bachelors degree and medical doctorate from Emory University. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Emory, he served as chief resident. He then completed a 3 year fellowship in clinical cardiology, research and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Hanson is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology. He is listed in the "Guide to America's Top Physicians". Dr. Hanson has served as the Director of Cardiology and the Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Newton General and Rockdale Hospitals. He will serve as Chief of Staff at Newton Medical Center for two years beginning January 2010. He is the founding member of Georgia Heart Specialists, LLC.

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Echocardiogram (Echo) - Non-invasive ultrasound test to look at heart function, valve leakage or narrowing, pressures in the heart, and fluid around the heart. Georgia Heart Specialists Echo Lab was one of the first in the country to be recognized and accredited for particular expertise and all of our physicians are board certified in Echocardiography which is extremely rare in the Atlanta area.
• Nuclear Medicine
  University, and he earned board certifications in internal medicine, cardiology, and nuclear medicine. Dr. Cecil has published peer reviewed scientific articles as well as general information newspaper columns. He is listed in the "Guide to