Federico Milla, MD

Dr. Maheshwari earned his medical degree from Wayne State Medical School in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Emory University School of Medicine. After residency, Dr. Maheshwari completed a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at Emory University and a second fellowship at Emory University Hospital in transplant hepatology. Dr. Maheshwari has been widely published in leading journals including The American Journal of Gastroenterology and has co-authored several textbook chapters. Dr. Maheshwari is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Gastroenterological Association, American Society of Transplantation, American College of Physicians, America College of Gastroenterology, and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. In his spare time, Dr. Maheshwari enjoy traveling, cooking, running, attending sporting events, playing football and basketball, hiking, and spending time with his family. He is accepting new patients and welcomes most major insurance plans.

Kelli Salter, MD, focuses primarily on non-cardiac disease of the chest, including mediastinum, lungs, chest wall, diaphragm, esophagus, and thoracic outlet abnormalities. She has a special interest in minimally invasive techniques, robotic surgery, and cardiothoracic surgery critical care medicine, including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). In her spare time, Dr. Salter is an avid runner, and a sports and outdoors enthusiast. Dr. Salter welcomes new patients and accepts most major insurance plans.

Dr. Kandzari is the Chief of the Piedmont Heart Institute and Cardiovascular Service Line; Director, Interventional Cardiology of the Piedmont Heart Institute; and Chief Scientific Officer for Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Kandzari specializes in cardiovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease and interventional cardiology. Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease and Board of Interventional Cardiology, Dr. Kandzari has held national and international leadership roles in clinical trials in cardiovascular disease and has participated in national and international program committees in cardiology. He has authored and coauthored more than 350 studies, book chapters and scientific reviews, and has delivered more than 750 lectures, both nationally and internationally, on a variety of issues related to both interventional and general cardiology. Dr. Kandzari has been consecutively voted as one of Atlanta's Top Doctors by Atlanta Magazine from 2011 to 2020 and is peer-nominated in the top 1% of cardiologists by U.S News and World Report.