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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

New cardiologists poised to see patients at St. Francis Hospital

INDIANAPOLIS – Three cardiologists have accepted newly created positions with St. Francis Medical Group Indiana Heart Physicians. Carson Turner, M.D.; Vijayasree Paleru, M.D.; and Ryan Daly, M.D., began seeing patients in early August.

A native of British Columbia, Canada, Turner comes to St. Francis from the division of cardiovascular medicine-The Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC). He is board-certified in internal medicine.

Turner completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine/interventional cardiology at OSUMC. A graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, he completed an internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt University.

A U.S. Army veteran, Turner is a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Medical Association.

Paleru, who is board-certified in internal medicine, recently completed a cardiology fellowship at East Carolina University in North Carolina. Additionally, she has completed fellowships in heart failure/cardiac transplant at the University of Utah and imaging and research at the University of Arizona-Sarver Heart Center.

She has been published widely in professional journals and has memberships with the ACC, ACP, American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Paleru earned her medical degree at Guntur Medical College in India, and completed an internal medicine residency and internship at medical institutions in New York City. She served as a heart failure research associate at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers.

Daly comes to his new position after completing a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. He also obtained advanced fellowship training in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and was an affiliated instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Board-certified in cardiovascular medicine and internal medicine, he completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Boston University School of Medicine, where he also earned his medical degree.

Daly has garnered numerous clinician and academic awards in his career and is a member of the ACC, ACP and ASE.

Since 1978, Indiana Heart Physicians has served the residents of central Indiana with the highest quality cardiovascular care. To learn more about our physicians and services, go to www.StFrancisDoctors.org.