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Dr. Anthony Magalski

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiologist

Anthony Magalski, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist with Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants and on staff at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the Arvin Gottlieb Endowed Chair for Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant and a Professor in Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

In addition to these accomplishments, He is,

Board certified in Cardiovascular Diseases
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation
Adult Congenital Heart Disease with advanced certification in Echocardiography
Program director of the Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant fellowship program at Saint Luke’s Hospital and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Dr. Magalski received his MD degree at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed his Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. His cardiology sub-specialties include the care of those patients with heart failure, heart transplantation, congenital heart disease, sports cardiology, and heart conditions in pregnancy. As Medical Director of Saint Luke’s Hospital Heart Failure Program, Adult Congenital Heart Program and Athletic Heart Clinic, Dr. Magalski is involved in multiple clinical research trials and has published numerous professional journal articles pertaining to his areas of clinical interest.

Dr. John Thomas Saxon

Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease, Interventional, Structural Heart Disease, Valvular Disease Cardiology

John Saxon, M.D., is a board-certified cardiologist with Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular consultants and on staff at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to being an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri School of Medicine, he is board-certified in interventional cardiology and adult congenital heart disease.

Dr. Saxon received his M.D. degree at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi. After completing his internal medicine and cardiology residency at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi, he completed a one year fellowship in interventional cardiology and one year fellowship in structural heart intervention at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. His clinical interests include interventional cardiology, valvular heart disease, adult congenital cardiology, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement.

Dr. Alap Shah

Cardiologist

Dr. Alap Shah is a board-certified, fellowship-trained cardiologist specializing in electrophysiology with the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute of the Heart and Vascular Institute at HCA Midwest Health. Dr. Shah is affiliated with the HCA Midwest Health network of hospitals located throughout the Kansas City, Mo. and Overland Park, Kan. metro areas.

With more than 10 years of experience, Dr. Shah has specialized clinical expertise and interests in electrophysiology, complex arrhythmia management, heart ablation, pacemaker and other device implantation and management. Over the past five years he has established a successful comprehensive electrophysiology program, including all aspects of cardiac device implantation and explanation, simple and complex ablations (atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia) and a left atrial appendage closure program

Dr. Shah has a specific interest in treating patients with atrial fibrillation where his goals are to advance patient knowledge and improve quality of life for these patients. He is one a select group of electrophysiologists across the country able to perform catheter ablations safely and effectively with minimal or no radiation exposure to patients.

Dr. Shah is a former instructor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. He has published numerous articles and abstracts in his specialty, and presented to colleagues at venues including the Kansas American College of Cardiology’s annual symposium and the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Symposium. Dr. Shah is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a member of the Heart Rhythm Society and a governing council member of the Kansas America College of Cardiology.

Jordan Chen MS, RD

Dietitian

Jordan Chen MS, RD is the practice owner of Manhattan Nutrition Clinic. She was born and raised in Manhattan, KS. After realizing how important nutrition is for preventing the onset of so many diseases, She wanted to be in a career that helps people understand and implement good nutrition so they can have the best quality of life possible.

She graduated from Kansas State University in dietetics in 2015 and went on to graduate with her Masters' degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center in 2017. She completed her clinical training at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City. While there, she worked in diabetes research as well as had work/research experience at the Weight Management Center at KU

She also has work experience as an inpatient dietitian at Stormont Vail in Topeka and Via Christi Hospital, as well as working in the outpatient setting and heading the cardiac rehab program at Manhattan Medical Group and Heart and Vascular Clinics. She has the passion and experience for helping patients with cardiovascular issues, weight loss, and diabetes management. She has worked with patients on a variety of other nutrition related concerns as well including gastrointestinal issues, malnutrition, and renal disease.