Castle Connolly Doctor ID: 83CC029235
Specialty: Cardiovascular Disease
Special Expertise: Coronary Artery Disease, Congestive Heart Failure, Arrhythmias, Preventive Cardiology
Hospital Affiliation: Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Dr. Bartzokis is the founding member of Bartzokis, Rubenstein & Servoss, M.D., P.L., establishing his practice in Boca Raton in 1991. He graduated with high honors in 1979 with a BA degree from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Bartzokis continued at Harvard University completing his medical school training at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He subsequently went on to complete three years of internship and medical residency training at the New England Deaconess Hospital, a Harvard Teaching Hospital, in 1983. He then spent an additional year at Harvard to serve as the Chief Medical Resident from 1983 to 1984.
Dr. Bartzokis then went on to complete a three year cardiology training program at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, which included both clinical cardiology and clinical research in the field of coronary ischemia. He spent an additional year of cardiology training in specialized interventional techniques including coronary angioplasty and coronary atherectomy at Sequoia Hospital in California with Dr. John Simpson, the developer of this new technology. Dr. Bartzokis introduced this new interventional technique in South Florida in 1991, at which time, it became the only alternative to coronary balloon angioplasty. He was considered the regional expert in this technology in South Florida. Dr. Bartzokis has subsequently developed training and expertise in the newer interventional modalities including rotational atherectomy, brachytherapy, and coronary stenting. Dr. Bartzokis is triple boarded in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology.
Dr. Bartzokis has authored and published over 21 research papers, with subjects including coronary ischemia, echocardiographic imaging techniques to aid during cardiac procedures, new interventional cardiology techniques, prevention of stroke with use of transesophageal echocardiography, nuclear medicine, the effects of emotional stress on myocardial function. He has presented this work at national cardiology symposia on several occasions.