Medicine in Gainesville, Florida.  He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the College of Medicine in New Jersey.

Dr. Pepine is an internationally recognized leader in both the clinical and scientific areas of cardiovascular medicine.  His major interests focus on the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease and coronary and systemic vascular hemodynamic mechanisms underlying the disease.  He is principal investigator for the UF center for the NHLBI-funded Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) and the UF center for the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network (CCTRN).  He has been or is the PI for many investigator initiated clinical trials.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Master physician of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), a Gifted Teacher Award from the Florida Chapter ACC, the Theodore E. Woodward award from the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the Paul Dudley White award from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Clinical Faculty Prize in Research from the University of Florida College of Medicine as well as a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship.  Dr. Pepine is a member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and Association of University Cardiologists (AUC).  He is a fellow of European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American Heart Association (AHA), Councils on Circulation and Clinical Cardiology, and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.  He is a past president of the ACC and member of the Board of Trustees.  He is currently serving or has served on numerous ACC/AHA Task Forces and Committees and is the founder and overall Project Chair for the Vascular Biology Working Group (VBWG).

Dr. Pepine has co-authored over 600 original contributions to the scientific literature in cardiovascular medicine.  He serves or has served on numerous editorial boards, including American Heart Journal, American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Circulation, Clinical Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiac Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis.

He is the Medical Editor of Today in Cardiology.  He has authored/edited numerous textbooks including, Acute Myocardial Infarction (F.A. Davis, 1989); Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiac Catheterization (Williams and Wilkins, 1989; second edition, 1994; third edition, 1998); Medical Therapy of Ischemic Heart Disease:  Nitrates, Beta Blockers, and Calcium Antagonists (Little Brown and Company, 1992); and CathSAP (1999).  Dr. Pepine serves as the Chairman of the Medicomp Clinical Advisory Panel.

surgery at the University of Colorado and Cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Florida.  Dr. Beaver’s clinical efforts focus on making cardiac and aortic surgery safer for patients through minimally invasive techniques, including minimally invasive surgery for atrial fibrillation.  He is involved in multiple clinical trials evaluating stent-grafting of thoracic aneurysms, renal protective strategies and avoiding cardiopulmonary bypass altogether.  Laboratory investigations underway include projects studying the inflammatory response following cardiac surgery and efforts to improve the ablation strategies for atrial fibrillation.

attended Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX where he received his training in Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Electrophysiology.  Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida where he serves as the Director of the Pediatric Interventional Electrophysiology and Pacing program on both the Jacksonville and Gainesville campuses.  He also serves as the Director of the Pediatric Transtelephonic Arrhythmia Monitoring program and the Co-director of the North Florida Children’s Comprehensive Cardiac Network.  His areas of expertise include pediatric sudden death, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias in congenital heart disease.

After earning her Bachelors in Biology from Harvard University, she went on to receive her M.D. from the University of Florida, and completed her residency at Emory University.  Dr. Conti’s clinical efforts focus on clinical electrophysiology, pacemakers, defibrillators, management of arrhythmias, radiofrequency ablation, and biventricular pacing for congestive heart failure.  Dr Conti’s academic interest is focused mainly in intracardiac device trials.  She directs both the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship as well as the General Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship at the University of Florida.  She is currently board certified in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Dr. Conti has over 80 publications, 60 abstracts and has co-authored and reviewed dozens of book chapters.  She is an active manuscript reviewer for multiple peer reviewed journals including: Clinical Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, and the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.  Dr. Conti has been invited to lecture and present over 100 topics in the US and abroad, for such prestigious organizations as: Heart Rhythm Society, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Failure Society of America

the University of Florida and the Chair of Operations at Shands AGH.  Dr. Feller is Board Certified in Family Medicine and his medical interests include alternative therapies especially acupuncture and herbal medicine.  His professional services at the Family Practice Medical Group include interpretation of ECG’s, spirometry, tympanometry, performance of exercise stress tests, flexible sigmoidscopy, minor surgery, and research for the treatment of atrial fibrillation and heart failure.  Dr. Feller is also Faculty Advisor to third and fourth year medical students.  He has volunteered many hours to the community and is currently the Faculty Advisor Equal Access Clinic (Free Student-run Indigent Medical Clinic in Gainesville Florida). 

Dr. Feller has over 15 publications in a variety of peer reviewed journals and is the co-author of the ambulatory electrocardiography chapter in Pfenninger and Fowler’s “Procedures for Primary Care.”  He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the American Botanical Council.  Dr. Feller has been invited to lecture and participate in many scientific meetings in the US and abroad, for organizations including: the University of Florida, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Academy of Family Physicians, and the North Central Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology from Houston Baptist University, graduating summa cum laude. He completed his medical degree, residencies in Internal Medicine/Cardiology, and Cardiac Electrophysiology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. His scholarships and awards include: Rotary International Fellowship for study aboard University of Heidelberg, Germany, field of study-medicine, and Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholarship for academic excellence. Dr. Horton has also served as an Instructor in Internal Medicine (Cardiology) at UT Southwestern Medical School. He is a former Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory, Dallas VA Medical Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and is a member of the Travis County Medical Society and the Texas Medical Association.

Dr. Horton has published many manuscripts in peer reviewed journals and has participated in over 25 research protocols. More recently he traveled to Medellin, Columbia to lend his considerable catheter ablation expertise to set up an ablation lab and assist in training Columbian doctors. Dr. Horton has performed countless ablations in and out of the US, and is considered by many to be a pioneer in the field.

and continued to his residency in Internal Medicine and subsequent fellowship in Cardiology at Bridgeport Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine.  He later went on to complete his fellowship in Electrophysiology at Bridgeport Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine.   Dr. Watts moved to Florida in 1996 to accept a position at Brevard Cardiology, a large private practice in Merrit Island, FL, where he worked for ten years.  Dr. Watts has recently formed a new and successful practice, Heart Rhythm Associates of Brevard, in Rockledge, FL.  Dr. Watts specializes in cardiology, clinical cardiac electrophysiology, and internal medicine - and has been published multiple times in Circulation.  He has been the Supervising Physician for Medicomp’s 24-hour Cardiac Monitoring Center (CMC) since 1998.  In this role, he assists in the development and coordination of continuing education and in-service training for the facility’s Certified Cardiographic Technicians.  He also provides consulting, when required, in the performance and interpretation of each type of diagnostic procedure performed in Medicomp’s CMC.

his Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center.  Dr. Wertheimer is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases.  He is the President & CEO of the Heart & Family Health Institute, a practice of 28 physicians in Port St. Lucie.  The Institute’s medical staff includes primary care physicians Board Certified in Internal and Family Medicine, and specialists Board Certified in Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Breast Surgery, Neurology, Podiatry, Pulmonary Medicine, Rheumatology, and Urology.  Dr. Wertheimer served four years as the Chief Medical Officer for the Agency for Healthcare Administration, Medical Advisory Committee, and prior to that served 14 years as the Director of the Department of Cardiology at the Medical Center of Port St. Lucie.  He has been licensed on the National Board of Medical Examiners in seven states.

Dr. Wertheimer has over 10 publications and many honors to his credit.  He is a member of multiple professional societies including: American College of Physicians, American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, Council of Geriatric Cardiology, Society for Angiography, and the International College of Angiology

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