Management Team
Gary Heller, MD, Ph.D, FACC
Medical Director, PMA Health
Dr. Heller is Professor of Medicine and Nuclear Imaging at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. At Hartford Hospital, he is the Associate Director of the Division of Cardiology, Director of Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory, and Program Director of the Hartford Hospital/University of Connecticut Cardiovascular Fellowship in Hartford, Connecticut.
Dr. Heller received his medical degree and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency at Boston City Hospital and University Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. His Cardiovascular Fellowship training was at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts and he was on the faculty of the Harvard University Medical School. Prior to his position in Hartford, Dr. Heller was Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University, and Director of Nuclear Cardiology at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island.
Dr. Heller is the Past-President of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and has been or is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the American Journal of Cardiology, and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. He is also past-president of the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Nuclear Laboratories (ICANL). Dr. Heller has authored over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and reviews. He is also co-editor of Nuclear Cardiology: Practical Applications and Nuclear Cardiology: Technical Applications.
Deepak Chaudhry, CPA
President and CEO, PMA Health
Mr. Chaudhry received his BSC in Economics at the London School of Economics and then began his career in the accounting profession in London England. In 1986 he relocated to New York City and joined an investment company managing assets in excess of 1 billion dollars. Mr. Chaudhry had extensive involvement in acquiring and financing numerous private equity transactions.
In 1998, he was hired by Kohlberg, Kravis, and Roberts (KKR-world’s largest buyout group) as a financial officer of a large industrial company in the Midwest with $300 million in sales. By 2005 the business had grown to over $1.4 billion, at that time Mr. Chaudhry proudly took this company public and rang the “opening bell” on the floor of the NYSE.
Since 2006, Mr. Chaudhry has owned and operated various health care ventures as an entrepreneur. Most recently he was involved in acquiring and managing a busy multi-specialty practice in Indiana. He has also consulted with hospitals and medical practices in growing their ancillary services and Radiology departments. Notably Mr. Chaudhry helped to establish a PET program in Kentucky at a Cardiology and Primary Care medical practice and a Cardiac PET program in Pennsylvania at a large 16 Partner Cardiology Practice.
Mr. Chaudhry is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Accountant.
