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Preventive Cardiology
Risk modeling, coronary calcium review, lipid intensification, blood-pressure calibration, and family-history plans for patients who want numbers early, not alarms late.
Precision cardiac care near Longwood Medical Area
The heart, measured closely.
Northstar Cardiology pairs advanced imaging, rhythm expertise, and prevention science with plain-spoken decisions. New consults are reviewed by an MD/FACC cardiologist within 48 hours, with same-week testing when symptoms cannot wait.
Request a Cardiology Consult
Call (617) 555-0194
Chest pain or stroke symptoms?
Call 911. Our office coordinates non-emergency specialty care and follow-up.
Boston consult clinic, echo lab, anticoagulation checks, and cardiac rehab intake under one care plan.
11,840
echocardiograms interpreted by our cardiology group in the last 12 months.
74 min
median door-to-balloon time for STEMI activations coordinated with partner hospitals.
486
structural-heart procedures performed by Northstar physicians across 5 years.
92%
of high-risk prevention patients reached LDL-C below 70 mg/dL at 12 months.
Cardiac services
Built for the full cardiac arc.
Northstar organizes testing, specialty treatment, medication changes, and recovery goals around the same data trail, so patients do not have to translate between disconnected offices.
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Echo & Advanced Imaging
Same-week transthoracic echo, stress echo, strain analysis, valve surveillance, and CT/MRI coordination for clear next steps after one read.
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Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Holter interpretation, AFib burden tracking, ablation referrals, anticoagulation decisions, and device follow-up without jargon.
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Structural Heart
TAVR, mitral valve, left atrial appendage closure, and second-opinion reviews with imaging criteria explained before referral.
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Cardiac Rehab
Post-event conditioning plans with exercise tolerance, medication timing, nutrition, and return-to-work milestones.
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Women's Heart Program
Pregnancy-associated hypertension, SCAD concerns, menopause risk shifts, microvascular angina, and symptom patterns often missed in routine workups.
Our approach
Data first. Bedside clarity always.
Every consult begins with a structured review of symptoms, labs, imaging, family history, medications, and exercise tolerance. Then the cardiologist turns the data into a plan a patient can repeat at home: what is urgent, what is measurable, and what changes before the next visit.
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Measure the right signal.
We choose testing based on the clinical question, not a default panel.
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Name the decision point.
Patients leave knowing which result changes medication, referral, or monitoring.
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Close the loop.
Results are released with a physician note and next-step timing within 72 hours.
“A good heart plan should lower risk and lower noise at the same time.”
Physician-led care
Cardiologists who stay with the details.
Three MD/FACC cardiologists lead care plans directly, with focused clinics for prevention, rhythm disorders, imaging, and structural-heart decisions.
Mara Ellison, MD
FACC | Preventive & Women's Heart
Dr. Ellison builds aggressive but practical prevention plans for inherited risk, postpartum hypertension, microvascular angina, and difficult lipid patterns.
Lipid clinic
Women's heart
Theo Banerjee, MD
FACC | Imaging & Valve Disease
Dr. Banerjee reads echo and advanced imaging with a valve-team lens, translating gradients, strain, and chamber changes into timing patients understand.
Echo lab
Valve surveillance
Adrian Cho, MD
FACC | Electrophysiology
Dr. Cho focuses on arrhythmia burden, AFib stroke prevention, device checks, and ablation decision-making for patients tired of episodic answers.
AFib
Pacemakers
Patient stories
Specific care leaves specifics behind.
Patients tend to remember the moment their risk, rhythm, valve finding, or medication plan finally became understandable.
After my calcium score came back at 412, Dr. Ellison changed my statin plan, added a blood-pressure protocol, and had my LDL down to 58 in four months. I finally understood what number we were chasing and why.
My palpitations were brushed off for years. Northstar put a 14-day monitor on me the same week, found runs of SVT, and walked me through the ablation referral without making it feel rushed.
Dr. Banerjee showed me my valve images on screen and explained why we could watch it for six months instead of jumping to surgery. That appointment changed my anxiety level immediately.
Insurance & access
Clear intake before the first test.
Our coordinators verify cardiology benefits, prior authorizations, recent labs, imaging disks, discharge summaries, and medication lists before your physician visit. Most commercial plans and Medicare are accepted for office visits, echo, stress testing, and rhythm monitoring.
- Medicare
- Blue Cross Blue Shield MA
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Tufts Health Plan
- Harvard Pilgrim
- Aetna
- Cigna
- UnitedHealthcare
Getting started
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Send your records.
Upload recent labs, imaging reports, ECGs, hospital notes, and medication lists through the secure intake form.
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Clinical triage within 48 hours.
A cardiology nurse reviews urgency with the physician team and schedules the right visit type.
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Start Secure Intake
Leave with a written cardiac plan.
Your visit summary names diagnosis, risk targets, medication changes, testing, and follow-up timing.
Book a consult
Bring the records. Leave with the plan.
New patient consults are available Monday through Friday. For hospital follow-up after heart attack, valve admission, rhythm event, or heart-failure flare, call the office for priority triage.