Welcome to Heart Specialists of Central Jersey
Vivian Kominos M.D. FACC graduated St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1984, and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She has been a practicing cardiologist in the neighborhood since 1989 and is the founding partner of "Heart Specialists of Central Jersey."
A native New Yorker, Dr. Ted Gutowski grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. He graduated first in his class in the Department of Biology from Queens College of the City University of New York. He received his MD from Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1983.After a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, he completed a fellowship in general cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx.
Dr. Beauregard is a New Englander transplanted to Central New Jersey. After obtaining a BS in Biology from Union College, she attended the Medical College of Pennsylvania where she was honored to become a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. Following medical school, she trained in Internal Medicine at Temple University Hospital, Cardiology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Cardiac Electrophysiology at UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, NJ.
Dr Ashish Awasthi attended medical school at the University College Of Medical Sciences, Delhi, one of the top medical colleges in India. Thereafter he did an internal medicine residency at the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi. He then moved to the United States to pursue further training and did his medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY....
Dr Werber attended medical school at the State University of New York, Downstate College of Medicine. While studying medicine, he went on to secure a prestigious “Caring for Community” grant from the American Association of Medical Colleges, which allowed him to start a community program “Students for a Healthier Brooklyn”. For this work not only did he receive personal gratification but he received awards from The New York Academy of Medicine . ....
Lori A. Schaer is an Adult Nurse practitioner and has been a part of the Heart Specialist's team since 2002. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rutgers University and her Masters in Science at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (summa cum laude). She is currently working on an additional post masters certification at Drexel University.
Susan is a registered nurse with a BS in Nursing (Magna Cum Laude) and Master of Science degree in nursing (Adult nurse practictioner track) from Monmouth University. She has practiced as a nurse since 1985, mostly in critical care and the cardiac catheterization lab and is Nationally Board Certified as a Cardiac-Vascular Nurse since 2002 by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). ...
» Full range of noninvasive diagnostic testing
» Vascular Medicine and Endovascular Interventions
» Interventional Cardiology
» Electrophysiology, including pacemakers and defibrillators
» Integrative and Preventive Cardiology
Heart Specialists of Central Jersey is a full service cardiovascular group that specializes in prevention detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
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  • Main Office:

    Freehold
    Heart Specialists of Central Jersey
    901 West Main Street, Suite 205
    CN5050
    Freehold, NJ 07728
    Phone No:(732) 866-0800
    Fax:(732) 866-0018

    Our office at 100 Craig Road in Manalapan is closed as of Thursday, May 26th, 2011.

  • Updates:
    »We are pleased to announce that Dr. John Werber has joined our staff.

    » Dr Awasthi has been named the co-director of the Endovascular intervention program at RWJUH

    » We have partnered with Studio V. They offer a program to help you with recipes for heart healthy meals and exercise programs. We hope this will help our patients eat healthier and live better.

    » See a hand-out on Women and Heart Disease from a recent talk by Dr. Kominos.

    » Integrative Women's Health, published in January 2010 features a chapter by Dr. Kominos.

    » Call the office now to schedule a vascular screening a 20 minute painless test to detect vascular disease.