TGH/TGMG - Hospital Medicine
Meet our staff
Jeffrey Lester, MD
Wound Care
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Dr. Lester treats patients 18 years of age and older.
Dr. Lester is recognized by the NCQA Diabetes Recognition Program.
Danielle Veru, PA
Julia Young, APRN
Family Medicine
About
Julia N. Smith is a clinical nurse who delivers integrative and evidence-based nursing care in collaboration with an inpatient multidisciplinary team of physicians, advanced practice providers, specialists, support staff and registered nurses. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Tampa and Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of South Florida. Smith is affiliated with the Florida Association of Nurse Practitioners and received the CVS Health Foundation Scholarship, McNichols Scholarship and the TGH Nurses Week Scholarship. She is also a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Tanuja Sharma, MD
Integrative Medicine
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Dr. Sharma's professional interests include broad spectrum family medicine, educating medical students and residents, and integrative medicine. Her personal interest include international travel, teaching, music, singing, meditation, swimming, Yoga and cooking. She is proficient in English, Hindi and Punjabi.
Dr. Sharma treats patients of all ages.
Jorge A Gadea, DO
Internal Medicine
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Dr. Gadea has practiced as a primary care physician in the Tampa Bay area since 1998, providing care for adult and geriatric patients. For over six years, he served as a medical director for a private/public collaboration between the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) and Pfizer pharmaceutical company leading a disease management program specifically designed to help a large group of patients suffering from chronic medical conditions such as congestive heart failure and diabetes to better understand their medical conditions and health needs in order to better care for themselves and improve their quality of life.
Dr. Gadea's professional interests include individualized diabetes care, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hyperlipidemia. He focuses on preventive health and patient education, and encourages his patients to take an active part in their healthcare plan.
Dr. Gadea has received numerous 'Patients Choice Awards' and was recently recognized as one of 'America's Best Physicians' by the National Consumer Advisory Board. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association and has received recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for diabetes care. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
Outside of the office, Dr. Gadea enjoys exercising, fishing and travelling with his family.
Mallory Lott, APRN
Family Medicine
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Mallory treats patients of all ages.
Elzbieta Kolanko, MD
Family Medicine
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Dr. Koslacz-Kolanko's previous experience includes practicing as a family medicine provider and medical director at the Kenosha County Health Center in Kenosha, WI. Her professional interests include community health, disease prevention and management of chronic disease. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Florida Medical Association.
Outside the office, Dr. Koslacz-Kolanko enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with family and friends. She is fluent in English and Polish.
Dr. Koslacz-Kolanko treats patients 12 years of age and older.
Bonnie Lohrbach, MD
Family Medicine
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Prior to transitioning to the outpatient family care setting, Dr. Lohrbach's experience includes missionary work at a 100-bed hospital in Zambia where she cared for a wide range of acute and chronic patients. She also worked as an emergency medicine physician in Ohio and most recently practiced at Petersburg Healthcare Alliance in Petersburg, VA.
Dr. Lohrbach is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Outside of the office, she enjoys spending time with family, traveling and running.
Dr. Lohrbach treats patients 18 years and older.
This provider is not accepting new patients at this time
This provider is not accepting new patients at this time
Aman Mayur Shah, MD
Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology
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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.
This provider is not accepting new patients at this time
Mary Carolyn Clements Vinson, DO
Thoracic Surgical Oncology
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