Donald Rothfeld, MD, FACC John Ciccone, MD, FACC Paul Wangenheim, MD, FACC Mark Goldberg, MD, FACC Ed Harback, MD, FACC Jacqueline Schwanwede, MD, FACC Nicholas Tullo, MD Line Cheryl Hottenstein, APN-BC Kristi Stinson, APN-BC Persephone Vargas, APN-BC

Nicholas G. Tullo, MD, FACC

Nicholas G. Tullo, MD

As a Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Dr. Tullo specializes in the treatment of arrhythmias (heart rhythm disorders).

 

Dr. Tullo earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at the State University of New York - Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency at Cornell University's North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. He served his cardiology fellowship at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, CT, and trained in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ.

 

Dr. Tullo practiced Electrophysiology at Newark Beth Israel and at the General Hospital Center at Passaic from 1988 to 1991, when he was selected to start a new Electrophysiology program at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ. He acted as Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Service at St. Joseph's from 1991 to 2003. During that time, he was also an associate professor of medicine at Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education in South Orange, NJ. He also served as councilman for the NJ Chapter of the American College of Cardiology.

 

In 2003, Dr. Tullo moved to Tennessee to join the Chattanooga Heart Institute. After three years of living in the South, Dr. Tullo and his family realized where their roots were, and he moved back to New Jersey in July, 2006 to join Consultants in Cardiology. His expertise has enhanced and expanded our specialty services, and his calm, thoughtful, professional manner has been well received by our patients. He now oversees our pacemaker and implantable defibrillator program, and he is our expert in heart rhythm problems and fainting.

 

Dr. Tullo has been involved in numerous research studies, and his writing has been published in numerous professional journals. He regularly gives lectures to physicians in training and the nursing staff at St. Barnabas Medical Center. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. His hobbies include audio/video production and computer graphics/animation. He also plays in a rock band.