Tanvir Bajwa, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Interventional Cardiology

Cardiology Sub-Specialty Areas of Interest: Peripheral Vascular Disease, Renal Artery Disease, Aortic Abdominal Aneurysm

Associate Head of the Cardiovascular Disease Section, Dr. Bajwa is principal author of "Peripheral Vascular Disease," a two-part monograph for Current Problems in Cardiology, published in 1998 by Mosby-Year Book, Inc.. Termed by reviewers a "comprehensive discussion of modern management" and "scholarly and extensive review of the literature regarding interventional therapy," the monograph helps physicians identify and successfully manage a growing problem that threatens life and limb, especially in the elderly and in patients with diabetes.

Dr. Bajwa is distinguished by technical expertise in advanced interventional cardiac and peripheral vascular procedures, including such frontier treatment areas as stenting renal arteries and below-the-knee percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. He serves on the Medical Advisory Board of Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., to develop instrumentation for these methods. He is also one of three cardiologists in Wisconsin authorized to perform the AneuRx procedure for abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Since 1987, he has participated in, or designed, 10 scientific research protocols. Dr. Bajwa and Dr. Valerie Chekanov, Director of Basic Cardiovascular Research, are currently developing a protocol for treating severe peripheral vascular disease in patients in need of limb salvage or amputation. The protocol will be based on a body of research unique to our center in which a mixture of autologous biological glue plus endothelial cells is the vehicle for delivery of angiogenesis-enhancing agents to the demarcation line between healthy and ischemic tissue to retard, and perhaps reverse, tissue degeneration and eventual necrosis.

Known statewide for his annual symposium, "New Developments in Cardiology and the Primary Care Physician," Dr. Bajwa has published over 30 articles and 52 abstracts. He has presented 32 abstracts at meetings of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Federation of Clinical Research, and the International Congress of Lasers, Stents, and Intervention in Cardiovascular Disease and other professional organizations. A Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, Dr. Bajwa also belongs to the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Bajwa trained as a fellow in cardiology and in coronary angioplasty at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, the Milwaukee clinical campus of the University of Wisconsin Medical School (1985-1988). In 1989, he was promoted to Director of the Peripheral Vascular Disease Laboratory and, in 1990, to Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.

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