Med Health Services and Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Institute Present Soprano Lilly Abreu in the First Annual “The Americas-In Concert”
 

PITTSBURGH, PA (July 1, 2008)… Med Health Services and Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Institute, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Latin American Studies, proudly present Pittsburgh’s first ever “The Americas-In Concert” on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh...

Our Doctors

Dr. Oliver W. Caminos specializes in the outpatient care of the primarily cardiac, vascular, complex and end-stage cardiomyopathy patients, with special emphasis in congestive heart failure. In the course of his career, he has distinguished himself as a lecturer in the subject of geriatric cardiology, arteriosclerosis, and preventive medicine. He strongly believes that outpatient diagnostic and medical treatment is the way of the future in medicine. Committed to avoiding hospital admissions whenever possible, Dr. Caminos explains, "As doctors, we have repeatedly found that physicians, in a modern-day outpatient facility such as Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Institute and Med Health Services, can perform the same evaluation in two or three hours that a hospital performs in one week's time. Our expeditious, same-day testing allows us to diagnose without delay, and proceed with treatment, which is essential in modern times specially for the care of advanced and complex pathology patients." Dr. Caminos' goal is to help put the modern-day tools that are essential in providing state-of-the-art treatment and diagnostic technical procedures in the hands of physicians - tools that are often stripped from physicians in the outpatient setting by hospitals and other large organizations.

Dr. Caminos completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in Argentina at the University of La Plata's General San Martin Institute, and later fulfilled his cardiology fellowship at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. For more than 25 years, Dr. Caminos has specialized in clinical and invasive cardiology. In the last several years he has put special emphasis in the care and follow-up of Congestive Failure, CVA and end-stage complex vascular patients. He also provides medical training at Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Institute in vascular and cardiac sonography to imaging technicians and students from several sonography schools. Dr. Caminos currently has privileges in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, the Western Pennsylvania Hospital Forbes Regional Campus, and UPMC Shadyside Hospital. He is licensed in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

Dr. Shah completed his internship in cardiology at the United Hospitals Medical Center in New Jersey, as well as his residency and fellowship in Cardiology at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pittsburgh, PA. He is board certified in the fields of internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Shah's training also included computer methods for analysis of perfusion imaging studies, including single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and ejection fraction and regional wall motion measurements from radionuclide angiographic studies. Dr. Shah also has extensive experience in all modalities of heart catheterization and vascular angiography, and is a leader in the area of Pittsburgh in interventional cardiology (all modalities of coronary stenting, etc.).

Committed to modern-day, outpatient medicine, Dr. Shah is the head of the Department of Nuclear Diagnostic Testing at Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Institute and Med Health Services. He holds active privileges at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, the Western Pennsylvania Hospital Forbes Regional Campus, UPMC St. Margaret Hospital and the Armstrong County Medical Center in Kittanning.

Dr. Chamorro completed his medical residency at San Juan de Dios University Hospital in Bogota, Colombia. He moved to the United States in 1967 and completed a Rotating Internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and then went on to complete his first year of residency in radiology at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Dr. Chamorro moved to Pittsburgh and completed the last years of his radiology residency at the University of Pittsburgh’s Presby Hospital. He was then invited to serve as a Teaching Fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, were he served for one year.

In addition to working as a reading radiologist for Med Health Services, Dr. Chamorro is presently on staff as a radiologist at Tycor Imaging. He currently holds privileges in Teleradiology and Radiology at Canonsburg General Hospital, Greene County Memorial Hospital, and Brownsville General Hospital. The doctor previously also held a radiology position at UPMC Shadyside Hospital for more than 20 years and served as Chief Radiologist in the hospital’s division of ultrasound from 1978-1981. Dr. Chamorro is licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island and Illinois.

Dr. Mariano completed his medical residency at Santo Tomas Medical School Hospital in the Philippines. He moved to the United States in 1959 and completed a Rotating Internship at St. Mary’s Hospital in Minneapolis. Dr. Mariano then came to Pittsburgh to complete his residency in radiology at St. Francis General Hospital, and moved on to the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology for his fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology.

In addition to working as a reading radiologist for Med Health Services, Dr. Mariano has been on staff at the Mercy Jeannette Hospital’s Department of Medical Imaging for more than thirty years now. He has also held privileges at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, and worked in private practice as well.

Dr. Pawar completed both his medical and surgical residencies at the SSG Hospital Medical Science University in Baroda, India, and then came stateside at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York to complete his residency in Radiology. He came to Pittsburgh in 1979 and has since held several staff appointments with UPMC, Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Jameson Memorial Hospital and Alle-Kiski Medical Center.

For more than 25 years, Dr. Pawar has specialized in all facets of diagnostic radiology, including ultrasound, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, abdominal and vascular ultrasound and echocardiography. The doctor has published several articles throughout the years in the ENT Journal, the American Journal of Radiology, and the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, and frequently participates in ultrasound seminars and CME presentations throughout the area. Dr. Pawar is currently Licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.