Bon Secours Charity Health System Welcomes Cardiologists to Bon Secours Medical Group

Highly-Skilled Cardiologists Bring World Class Cardiac Care to Rockland and Bergen Counties

PRESS RELEASE– Cardiologists Perminder S. Grewal, MD, FACC, Arvind K. Agarwal, MD, FACC, Bangalore S. Sridhara, MD, FACC, MRCP, Sunandan A. Pandya, MD, FACC, Shital R. Parikh, MD, FACC, and Rajiv Singh, MD, FACC, have joined Bon Secours Medical Group. This highly skilled group, with offices in West Nyack, Stony Point and Ramsey, NJ, brings world class cardiac care to the local community.

Dr. Perminder S. Grewal has been practicing cardiology for 30 years. He currently serves as Director of Cardiology Consultants of Rockland in Stony Point, NY, Director of the Bergen Heart Center LLC, in Ramsey, NJ, Director of Outreach and Business Development at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ, and is the Vice Chairman of Cardiology at Hackensack University Medical Center North in Pascack, NJ. He has previously served as Chief of Cardiology, President of Medical Staff and as a member of the Board of Trustees at Nyack Hospital. He completed his medical degree at

Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, India, his residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and his fellowship at New York Medical College System in Valhalla, NY. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular diseases, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He joins us as Medical Director of Noninvasive Cardiology at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Dr. Arvind K. Agarwal, has been practicing medicine for 30 years, completed his residencies in cardiology and internal medicine at Wright State School of Medicine in Ohio and received his medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, India. He previously served as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, and as Vice Chairman of Interventional Cardiology at Hackensack Hackensack University Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology. He joins us as Section Chief of Cardiology and Co-Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Dr. Bangalore Sridhara received his medical degree from Bangalore Medical College in India and obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians in England. He completed his fellowship in Cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA. He holds a PhD in Nuclear Medicine and is currently the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at Cardiology Consultants of Rockland. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and is licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey. He is a member of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the American Society of Internal Medicine and the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Sunandan A. Pandya received his medical degree from Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India, and specializes in Cardiovascular Diseases. He completed his residency and fellowship at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers in New York, NY.

Dr. Pandya is board certified in Cardiovascular diseases, Nuclear Cardiology, Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography and Internal Medicine. He currently serves as an active member of the Echocardiography and IT committees at Hackensack University Medical Center and is a certified physician builder for Epic EHR. His special interests include Advanced Echocardiography including 3D imaging for Valvular Heart disease, novel implantable heart valves and devices, as well as strain imaging for early detection of chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity. He is licensed in the states of New York and New Jersey. He has served as an instructor at New York Medical College and is member of several professional societies and organizations.

Dr. Shital R. Parikh, who has been in practice for more than 20 years, was previously an attending physician at Nyack Hospital and Hackensack University Medical Center. He completed his residency and fellowship at Montefiore Health System in the Bronx, NY, and graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Nuclear Cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Rajiv Singh received his medical degree from Columbia University in  New York, NY. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and served as a Faculty Instructor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, training medical students and residents. He completed his fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and Peripheral Angioplasty at New York University Medical Center in New York, NY, and is an expert in Transradial cardiac catheterization. He completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Peripheral Angioplasty. He is a Goldwater National Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania, recipient of the NIH Dean’s Research Fellowship, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar from Harvard Medical School, and received a 2011 Resident Teaching Award.

The Bon Secours Medical Group is Bon Secours Charity Health System’s regional network of more than 120 primary care physicians and specialists from a broad array of medical disciplines. With offices throughout Rockland and Orange counties in NY, Northern NJ and Pike County, PA, residents receive a broad range of health and wellness services from our healthcare providers. For more information about Bon Secours Charity Health System, visit www.charity.bonsecours.com or follow us at www.facebook.com/bschs and www.twitter.com/bschs.

Patients can schedule a visit at one of their three office locations:

27 South Franklin Turnpike
Suite 202
Ramsey, NJ 07445
201-327-2248

12 Liberty Square Mall
Stony Point, NY 10980
845-942-1001

1 Crosfield Avenue Suite 421
West Nyack NY 10994
845-353-9800