Physicians named as directors at Saint Joseph Hospital, Orange, California

  • Brian Kolski, MD named co-director of St Joseph’s Structural Heart Disease Program and St Joseph’s Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
  • Maged Azer, MD named Medical Director of the St Joseph Heart Failure Program
  • Jairo Marin, MD named Medical Director, St Joseph Invasive Cardiology
  • Lawrence Santora, MD named director at the Heart and Vascular Wellness Center for Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Dick Butkus Center for Cardiac Testing
  • Jay H. Lee, MD named Medical Director of Electrophysiology, Hoag Hospital
  • Orange County Heart Institute to receive full certification
  • Shalizeh Shokooh, MD has been named director of the Varicose Vein Ablation program at the Orange County Heart Institute.



Orange County Heart Institute & Research becomes the first center in California to receive full ICANL Certification of its nuclear medicine laboratory and full ICAEL Certification of its echocardiography program.