Drs. Randy Brown and German Kamalov have joined Sparks Health System, with Brown working at Sparks Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Clinic and Kamalov affiliated with Sparks’ Cardiology Center.
Brown’s work includes heart transplant surgery and heart valve repair, and he treats a wide range of heart, lung, and vascular diseases. He completed his cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his general surgery residency at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa.
Most recently he practiced at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where he was chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. He is board certified in cardiothoracic and general surgery.
Kamalov is a cardiac electrophysiologist and specializes in evaluating and treating heart rhythm irregularities by prescribing medication and by performing procedures, including radio frequency ablations and pacemaker implantation. Kamalov comes to Sparks from Ohio State University where he completed his electrophysiology fellowship. He is board certified in cardiology and internal medicine.
He also completed a clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis in 2012.
Also, Sparks Regional Medical Center has received Chest Pain Center Re-Accreditation with PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC).
To become an Accredited Chest Pain Center, Sparks engaged in rigorous reevaluation and refinement of its cardiac care processes in order to integrate the healthcare industry’s successful practices and newest paradigms into its cardiac care processes.
“People tend to wait when they think they might be having a heart attack, and that’s a mistake,” Randy Bowen, director of Cardiovascular Services at Sparks, said in a statement. “The average patient arrives in the emergency department more than two hours after the onset of symptoms, but what they don’t realize is that the sooner a heart attack is treated, the less damage to the heart and the better the outcome is for the patient.” Sparks was first named in 2011 as the only Accredited Chest Pain Center in the region.