TGH/TGMG - Cardiology

Jason Feliberti, MD, has board certification in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. He also holds board certifications in Echocardiography and Nuclear Medicine. He earned his medical degree at the University of Buffalo and continued his training with a residency at NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Feliberti has five years of additional training in cardiology care including General Cardiology Fellowship at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson, a Heart Failure and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics fellowship at NYU Langone Medical Center, and a fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology with the University of South Florida.

Dr. Feliberti has been published in several articles and presented in academic settings on a variety of cardiac topics, and he leads as Principal Investigator in multiple clinical trials. His areas of interest include Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, Pulmonary Hypertension, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Advanced Heart Failure device-based therapies, Durable Implanted Ventricular Assist support devices, and Cardiac Transplantation.

He is a clinical instructor and Assistant Professor with the University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine. Moreover, he serves as the Program Director for the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship with the University of South Florida.

He is a member of the American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation and the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.

Peter Berman, M.D., F.A.C.C., completed a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Louisville and completed his residency in internal medicine at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, after graduating from St. George's University School of Medicine. Dr. Berman is board certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine. Dr. Berman served as an interventional cardiologist in Clearwater, FL and Tallahassee, FL. In addition, he was the director of non-invasive cardiology and the co-director for the chest pain emergency room and nuclear cardiology departments at University Community Hospital in Tampa. Dr. Berman has been published in journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine, among other journals. He served as principal investigator for numerous cardiovascular trials and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Berman is a member of the Heart Failure Society of America, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. His concentration is on heart failure disease management, non-invasive cardiology and imaging, and will continue to serve as a community resource to physicians throughout the Tampa Bay area.

Dr. Ioana Dumitru is a triple board-certified advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist and the medical director of the TGH Heart & Vascular Institute's Mechanical Circulatory Support Program. She provides world-class care to patients with complex cardiac conditions, cardiac transplant patients, and patients supported by mechanical cardiac support.

Before joining Tampa General, Dr. Dumitru served as founder and medical director of the Adult Cardiac Transplant, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy program at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla. She previously founded and served as the medical director of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Equipped with more than 25 years of experience in her field, Dr. Dumitru has guided future medical professionals throughout her career as an assistant, associate and currently professor of medicine and has received several awards for her clinical excellence and teaching efforts since relocating to the United States from her home country of Romania.

A fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Dumitru is credited with more than 100 presentations, publications in scholarly journals, book chapters, and abstracts in areas of her expertise. She has professional memberships with the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant.

Referral Information:
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation
Referral Phone: (813) 844-4088 · Referral Fax: (813) 844-4179 · Office Phone: (813) 844-7137

Non-transplant Cardiology
Referral Phone: (813) 844-5905 · Referral Fax: (813) 844-5851 · Office Phone: (813) 251-0793

Debbie A. Rinde-Hoffman, M.D., F.A.C.C., completed her medical training, including medical school, internal medicine internship, residency, and fellowship in cardiology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Rinde-Hoffman has completed special training and proficiency in nuclear cardiology, cardiac transplantation, echocardiography, diagnostic cardiac catheterization, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, excimer laser angioplasty, and intracoronary stent placement. She is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure and heart transplant by the American Board of Internal Medicine. In addition, she served as chief of the Department of Internal Medicine at Tampa General Hospital and is the medical director of the cardiac transplantation team. She is also an affiliate associate professor at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. Dr. Rinde-Hoffman has had numerous articles published in the area of cardiac transplantation. She is a sought-after speaker on issues related to women with heart disease, congestive heart failure, transplantation, and mechanical assist devices. She is a member of numerous professional and scientific societies including the American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, and Florida Medical Association.

Dr. Aman M. Shah is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) Heart & Vascular Institute, where he delivers precise, patient-centered care for individuals with complex cardiovascular disease. His clinical expertise spans the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure care, including cardiomyopathy assessment, infiltrative cardiomyopathy (amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, etc), temporary and durable mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation, and invasive hemodynamic assessment with right-heart catheterization, endomyocardial biopsy, and implantable hemodynamic monitoring technologies.

Dr. Shah serves as Medical Director of Tampa General Hospital’s Centralized Heart Failure Remote Monitoring Program, leading a system-wide, data-driven program that integrates wearable and implantable technologies to enable proactive heart failure management, early detection of clinical deterioration, and timely escalation to advanced therapies. Dr. Shah also serves as Co-Director of the Cardiac Amyloidosis Program, leading the growth of a multidisciplinary initiative focused on early diagnosis and access to the latest disease-modifying therapies.

Dr. Shah serves as principal investigator in several clinical trials, has published in leading peer-reviewed journals, lectured nationally and internationally, and serves on several advisory boards and professional committees. He is a member of several professional societies including the Heart Failure Society of America and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, an Alpha Omega Alpha honoree, and has received multiple awards for teaching excellence. He speaks English and Gujarati.

He earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College and completed his internal medicine residency, cardiovascular disease fellowship, and advanced heart failure and transplant fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, where he also served as chief fellow. Prior to joining TGH, Dr. Shah served as Associate Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and Director of Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy at Saint Francis Hospital in New York, where he developed one of the nation’s largest CardioMEMS programs and enhanced advanced heart failure outcomes in Long Island, New York.

Dr. Guilherme Oliveira, MD, MBA is Vice-President of Tampa General Hospital's Concierge Medicine Service Line and Professor of Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida. Previously, he was founding Director of the Tampa General Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute and Chief of Cardiology for USF Health.

Dr. Oliveira is an internationally renowned physician leader who was director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Center at University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Before that, Dr. Oliveira was faculty at Cleveland Clinic and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

After obtaining his MD at the Faculdade Nacional de Medicinain Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Oliveira did his internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic Rochester and cardiology and heart failure and transplant fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital. Dr. Oliveira also holds a Masters of Business Administration from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Dr. Oliveira is a clinical investigator whose work and expertise span advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation and cardio-oncology. Dr. Oliveira is internationally known for his work on mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation in cancer survivors exposed to chemotherapy and radiation. He has over 300 peer-reviewed publications, 5500 citations and a h-index of 35.

Dr. Oliveira is an invited speaker all over the world, a frequent visiting professor and sits on multiple scientific boards and committees.

Luis H. Arroyo, M.D., completed his medical training at the University of Salamanca Medical School, Salamanca, Spain. He completed his residency, chief medical resident, and cardiology fellowship at the New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Arroyo has completed special training in cardiac transplantation and echocardiography. In addition, he has served as director at the heart failure and transplant unit in Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and director at the advance heart failure and transplant service at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center. He is also board certified in cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure, heart transplant, and internal medicine. He has served as an associate professor of medicine in UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Arroyo has had several articles published in the area of cardiac transplantation and lung transplantation. He has also completed several books in Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine 1st and 2nd Edition and the Heart in Diabetes. He is a member of numerous professional and scientific societies including the Heart Failure Society of America, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and American Society of Echocardiography.