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Nicholas G. Tullo, MD, FACC
New Jersey Center for Fainting 

Dr. Nicholas Tullo is a graduate of SUNY – Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at The North Shore University Medical Center in Manhasset, NY. He trained in cardiology at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, CT, and completed his fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ.

Dr. Tullo served as director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacemaker Service at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ from 1991 to 2003. He was also Associate Professor of Medicine for the Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education. He left New Jersey with his family and spent three years with the Chattanooga Heart Institute in Tennessee. He subsequently returned to New Jersey to join Consultants In Cardiology in West Orange, NJ.  He established the New Jersey Center For Fainting out of his passion for caring for patients with this frustrating disorder, and he has a large number of patients with dysautonomia who are referred to his practice.

Dr. Tullo is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and board-certified in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Disease, and Internal Medicine. He has participated in many clinical trials, and enjoys teaching and writing. Dr. Tullo has created a new informational website, www.njfaint.com, for patients and physicians.  He has been an active member of the Heart Rhythm Society since 1989.
 

Amer Suleman, MD
The Heartbeat Clinic

Dr. Amer Suleman completed his studies at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, the Mid America heart institute, and the Krannert Institute of Cardiology at Indiana University.  Dr. Suleman also held Resident and Clinical Instructor positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Mayo Hospital (in Pakistan).

Dr. Suleman is an established medical lecturer and writer, known for his focus on patient care.  He is Testamur of NASPeXAM in cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator management, and has worked across the state of Texas as Consultant in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Dr. Suleman is certified in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pacemakers and Defibrillators, Echocardiography, and as a Specialist in Clinical Hypertension.  He has received numerous awards and grants, and is a regular contributor to the medical and scientific communities.  He has been published widely, and has participated in numerous clinical trials and investigations.

Today, Dr. Suleman and The Heartbeat Clinic serve patients in the Dallas-Ft. Worth areas and beyond.  His main office is in McKinney, Texas.

Svetlana Blitshteyn, MD
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Blitshteyn completed her residency training in neurology at the Mayo Clinic where she became interested in autonomic disorders.  She graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, Summa Cum Laude, from the University at Buffalo, where she was the valedictorian of her graduating class, and she received her Medical Doctor degree from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine.

After completing her training at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Blitshteyn returned to Buffalo where she is now practicing general neurology and autonomic disorders and serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.  Dr. Blitshteyn's research on hormone replacement therapy and meningioma received national recognition and a Research Award from the Florida Society of Neurology.  She was also the recipient of the Merck US Health Award from the American Headache Society. She is currently leading research projects investigating the causes of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.

Satish R Raj, MD, MSCI
Vanderbilt University

Satish R Raj grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  He graduated from Queen’s University Faculty of Medicine in Ontario in 1993.  After completing residency training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Queen’s University he moved on to a fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Calgary.

In 2002, Dr. Raj moved to Nashville, Tennessee as a Research Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University’s Autonomic Dysfunction Center and completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation. 

He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and an Attending Physician at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

His primary research interests are to understand the cause and find more effective treatments for the postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and neurally mediated syncope, as well as disorders of the autonomic nervous system.

Dr. Raj lives with his wife and daughter in the Nashville area.

Julian M. Stewart, MD, PhD
New York Medical College

Dr. Stewart received MD and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago studying cardiac physiology. He is a trained pediatric cardiologist and an integrative physiologist. Dr. Stewart's initial work concerned vascular physiology and was performed in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Hintze in Physiology at New York Medical College. Subsequently, physiology methods were translated into measurements in conscious humans, largely adolescents and young adults. These are primarily noninvasive adaptations of classical blood flow techniques.

Dr. Stewart's work and funding now centers around understanding the physiology of orthostatic intolerance in young people, its relation to vascular control mechanisms and their impact on the autonomic nervous system. The technological focus has been on the development and use of methods to measure regional blood flow and endothelial function in patients and in healthy volunteers. He has developed methods using a combination of segmental impedance plethysmography, strain gauge plethysmography, ultrasound and laser Doppler flowmetry along with microdialysis techniques in which he can test the responses to drugs and can measure changes in microscopic amounts of biochemicals. These are applied to treatment of OI.