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Tina McCurry, APRN is a graduate of Vero Beach High School and long-time Indian River County resident. She brings over 15 years of nursing expertise in critical care and surgery across local hospitals. Tina is always advancing in her field as a nurse practitioner where she will be specializing in vascular surgery and wound care. 

Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants is a cardiology practice serving patients of all walks of life across North Palm Beach County. Located in Atlantis, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, and Jupiter, Florida, the practice offers advanced testing and diagnostic services as well as a wide range of surgical and nonsurgical treatments for cardiovascular conditions. The team sums up their approach with the three C’s: comprehensive, compassion, and cardiology.

Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants works hard to diagnose patients accurately and give them as much information as possible about their condition. They perform cardiology consultations and help patients interpret the results of tests like electrocardiograms (ECGs), echocardiography, blood tests, stress tests, and more. They also help patients use their results to make valuable changes to their lifestyle and routine. 

After diagnostics and testing, the team at Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants can provide the treatment, follow-ups, or long-term management you need for your condition. They frequently help patients treat or manage atrial fibrillation and other forms of arrhythmia, varicose veins and valve disorders, coronary artery disease, and many types of heart disease.

Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants conveniently offers many different treatments using the latest available information and techniques. The practice is also affiliated with many hospitals in the region. Depending on the diagnosis and the individual patient’s needs, the expert cardiologists may recommend and perform cardiac catheterization for diagnosis or treatment, angioplasty, aneurysm repair, laser atherectomy, device implantation, sclerotherapy, and more. In many cases, they can treat patients effectively with suggested lifestyle changes or short-term medications alone. 

With same-day visits available, patients don’t have to wait to get high-quality care for the health of their heart and blood vessels. For a cardiology consultation, call Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants or use the online booking tool today.

Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants is a cardiology practice serving patients of all walks of life across North Palm Beach County. Located in Atlantis, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, and Jupiter, Florida, the practice offers advanced testing and diagnostic services as well as a wide range of surgical and nonsurgical treatments for cardiovascular conditions. The team sums up their approach with the three C’s: comprehensive, compassion, and cardiology.

Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants works hard to diagnose patients accurately and give them as much information as possible about their condition. They perform cardiology consultations and help patients interpret the results of tests like electrocardiograms (ECGs), echocardiography, blood tests, stress tests, and more. They also help patients use their results to make valuable changes to their lifestyle and routine. 

After diagnostics and testing, the team at Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants can provide the treatment, follow-ups, or long-term management you need for your condition. They frequently help patients treat or manage atrial fibrillation and other forms of arrhythmia, varicose veins and valve disorders, coronary artery disease, and many types of heart disease.

Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants conveniently offers many different treatments using the latest available information and techniques. The practice is also affiliated with many hospitals in the region. Depending on the diagnosis and the individual patient’s needs, the expert cardiologists may recommend and perform cardiac catheterization for diagnosis or treatment, angioplasty, aneurysm repair, laser atherectomy, device implantation, sclerotherapy, and more. In many cases, they can treat patients effectively with suggested lifestyle changes or short-term medications alone. 

With same-day visits available, patients don’t have to wait to get high-quality care for the health of their heart and blood vessels. For a cardiology consultation, call Advanced Cardiovascular Consultants or use the online booking tool today.

Gershwin Blyden, MD, PhD, FCP, FACP, is a board-certified hematologist-oncologist and medical director of The Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research, with locations in Homestead, Orlando, Lakeland, Jacksonville, Belle Glade, Tallahassee, and Hollywood, Florida. With more than 40 years of diverse experience, Dr. Blyden is an esteemed physician in his field.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in plant science from the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1967, Dr. Blyden earned a PhD in pharmacology from prestigious Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1976. Just three years later, he also earned his medical doctorate cum laude from Yale University.

In 1985, Dr. Blyden completed an internal medicine internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. That same year, he also finished his hematology/oncology and clinical pharmacology fellowship at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. 

After graduating and completing his training, Dr. Blyden worked as an adjunct professor for the Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine in Miami Shores, Florida, an associate clinical professor of hematology and oncology at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, Florida, and as an associate professor of clinical pharmacy and director of the Clinical Pharmacology Research Unit at Florida A&M University’s Miami location.

Today, Dr. Blyden is a leader in the field of sickle cell treatment, case management, and research. He provides comprehensive care for chronic diseases, with a special emphasis on sickle cell anemia. 

Dr. Blyden offers a variety of infusion services, school individualized education program (IEP) support, transcranial Doppler ultrasounds, and more.

Y. Joseph Usta, MD, was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He was raised on an American compound in Dhahran called Aramco and went to high school at a Department of Defense Navy base in Bahrain.  He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Chemistry. He did a year of GI research n pancreatic cell transplant at Emory University in Atlanta. He completed his medical school at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He did his Internal Medicine training at St. Joseph Hospital and Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona. During his training he was selected as a fourth year Chief Resident in Internal Medicine and again selected to be Chief Fellow in Gastroenterology.

He also served as an Assistant Professor for both the University of Arizona and Creighton Medical Schools. Currently, Dr. Usta gives monthly lectures to residents and students at Wellington Reginal Medical Center and regularly has residents seeing patients with him in his clinic.

Dr. Usta is trained in all general GI but has a specific interest in liver diseases (Hepatology). He is very comfortable taking care of complex liver diseases including fatty liver, hepatitis B and C, cirrhosis, and getting patients ready for liver transplants consideration.

Dr Usta sees patients upstairs in the clinic and does procedures downstairs at the endoscopy center in the same building, cutting commute time and confusion for his patients. Some of the procedures he does include Upper Endoscopy (EGD), Screening Colonoscopy, and Capsules. He sees patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux (GERD), swallowing difficulties, and Barrett’s Esophagus. He regularly removes colon polyps during screening colonoscopies to help prevent colon cancer.

He also treats hemorrhoids using the CRH O'Regan System banding which is “fast and painless, over 99% effective and covered by insurance with no recovery time, fasting, or sedation” as per their website. 

Professional & Teaching Experiences

• Assistant Professor, University of Arizona.
• Assistant Professor, Creighton Medical School.

Research & Publications

• Poster 1675 Agent Orange Exposure
• Presented an abstract to the 2015 American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG)

Hobbies

Dr. Usta has two daughters and a son, and a pet tortoise named “Tiki”. His hobbies include working out at Orang Theory, fishing, kayaking, biking, and any activity that includes the pool or beach. He is also not scared to try new foods from around the world. He loves gardening and has a few fruit trees that he manages in his backyard. He is currently taking online courses at Standford University on quantum physics for fun and loves to read books about history especially pertaining to World War I and II.