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Cape Fear Cardiology has collaborated with UNC Medical Center

In continuing with our commitment to provide a full range of comprehensive cardiovascular care, Cape Fear Cardiology has collaborated with UNC Medical Center to offer a full range of Heart Failure and Electrophysiology services, right here in our Fayetteville office. 

Tonya Carter, Matthew Baker, Faisal Syed and Mirnela Byku 

These UNC specialists not only provide care for our patients, in addition, they provide local care for patients from other practices that would normally have to commute out of town for these specialized services and procedures. 

This partnership between UNC Medical Center and Cape Fear Cardiology allows us several advantages allowing us to collectively identify and expedite the best treatment plans for our patients, right here at home. Please meet our UNC partners.

Matthew Baker, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Division of Cardiology

Specialty Areas

Cardiac electrophysiology; pacemaker (including biventricular) and defibrillator

Education and Experience

BS: Columbia University, 2000; MD: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2008; Internal Medicine Residency: Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University, 2008-2011; Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship: UNC, 2012-2015; Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship: UNC, 2015-2017.

Clinical Interests

Dr. Baker’s clinical interests include implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators, and catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, SVT, and VT.

Dr. Baker sees patients with cardiac rhythm disorders in Chapel Hill at the UNC Hospitals Heart and Vascular Center at Meadow Mont, and in Fayetteville at the office of Cape Fear Cardiology Associates.

Mirnela Byku, MD, PhD, MBA

Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Division of Cardiology

Specialty Areas

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Congenital Heart Disease

Education and Experience

MBA: Dowling College, 2003; PhD, Pharmacological and Physiological Science: Saint Louis University, 2008; MD: Saint Louis University, 2010; Internal Medicine Residency and Internship: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 2010-2013; Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship: Washington University in St. Louis, 2013-2016; Advanced Heart Failure Fellowship: Washington University in St. Louis, 2016-17.

Faisal F. Syed, BSc (Hons.), MBChB

Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Division of Cardiology

Specialty Areas

Cardiac electrophysiology; ablation of cardiac arrhythmia including SVT, VT and AF; epicardial catheter ablation; cardiac device implantation – pacemaker (including biventricular, His-bundle and leadless) and ICD; laser lead extraction; echocardiography; general cardiology; clinical and translational research: identification of novel ablation targets for ventricular arrhythmia, improving outcomes from ventricular arrhythmia ablation.

Education and Experience

B.Sc. Pathology (1st Hons.): Faculty of Medicine, University of Manchester, 1999; M.B.Ch.B.: Faculty of Medicine, University of Manchester, 2002; Resident, Internal Medicine: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2009-2011; Fellow, Cardiovascular Diseases: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2011-2014; Fellow, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2014-2016; Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist, University of Michigan, 2015-2016; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Cincinnati, 2016-2017; Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC, 2017-present

Tonya Carter DNP, MSN, NP-C

For a period spanning thirty years, Cape Fear Cardiology Associates has consistently provided exemplary cardiology services to residents of Cumberland County and the surrounding areas thus becoming the most dependable and favored group in Fayetteville.

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