Salim Shammo, MD, FACC

My father died of heart disease when he was just 55 years old. After that, I always wanted to be a cardiologist, to keep this from happening to other people. To me, it is the most interesting field in medicine. I graduated from Aleppo University Medical school in 1982 and came to the U.S. in 1983 to continue my medical education. In 1991, I completed my cardiology fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago. As a board-certified physician in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine I joined the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and later on moved back to a teaching hospital in Chicago. I then moved to Wisconsin in 1994 and practiced in a group setting until 1999 when I ventured on my own and continued in solo practice for 20 years, prior to joining the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network. My busy practice has not kept me from advancing my medical education. I received my board certification in interventional cardiology in 2000, and received board certification in Nuclear Cardiology in 2009.

I am excited about the new phase in my career as I join the Froedtert & MCW health network and feel confident that my patients will continue to receive the same quality of service they have come to expect.