Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
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Anthony Ea, DO, FACC, is an interventional cardiologist who specializes in coronary, endovascular, and structural heart procedures. His board certifications include Interventional Cardiology, General Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, and Internal Medicine.
Dr. Ea values the opportunity to support his patients throughout their life-long health journeys as well as during crucial health events, such as heart attacks. He explains, “I believe in empowering my patients through active collaboration in each phase of care — from diagnosis to treatment.”
As a proud Bay Area native, Dr. Ea feels that being raised in this community shaped him into the person and doctor he is today — socially conscious, mindful, and inclusive. When it was time to begin his career, he knew he wanted to return to the Bay Area to raise his family and provide care to the very community that influenced him.
Outside his practice, Dr. Ea enjoys spending time with his family exploring the outdoors and the diverse food scene that the Bay Area has to offer. He’s an avid sports fan and catches as many Giants, 49ers, and Warriors games as he can. Dr. Ea is fluent in English and has conversational proficiency in Spanish.
Dr. Raabia Ahmad is originally from St. Louis, Missouri where she attended college at Washington University. After completing her Bachelor’s Degree, she attended medical school at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Dr. Ahmad then completed her residency and cardiology fellowship at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. After completing her medical training, she worked outside Boston in the Mass General Brigham system for 5 years before moving to the Bay Area in search of warmer weather. She joined Advanced Cardiovascular Specialists in 2021 and has built a successful practice during her short time here. She also has taken on several administrative roles including President of ACS and is the co-medical director for Heart Failure at El Camino Hospital.
Dr. Ahmad is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology. She has a special clinical interest in congestive heart failure, preventive cardiology, women’s heart disease, cardiac imaging, and valvular disease. She strives to connect with her patients on a personal level, educate them on their condition, and guide them in joint clinical decision making.
In her free time, Dr. Ahmad enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 young children, traveling, and cooking.
Ibrahim El Masri,MD, is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist, who received his subspecialty degree at Stanford University. His clinical interest is in heart rhythm disorders including managing atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardias, ventricular tachycardias, and bradycardia. His expertise to treat patients include complex ablations and device implants such as leadless pacemakers, subcutaneous ICDs, and conduction system pacing leads.
Dr. El Masri cares to enhance his patients’ lives by taking the time to understand each individual in order to personalize their care plans and deliver the best treatment possible. He believes in educating his patients about their conditions to provide transparency of the risks and benefits with the goal to achieve healthy, long and comfortable lives.
Away from work, he enjoys spending time with his family, exploring the Bay Area, and traveling the world. Dr. El Masri is fluent in English and Arabic.
Kristin Boulier,MD, is a non-invasive cardiologist specializing in general cardiology and cardiac imaging with expertise in cardiovascular genetics. She is board certified in Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography and Cardiac CT.
Originally from Maryland, her training began at Johns Hopkins followed by medical school at the University of Virginia. From there she moved to California to complete her Internal Medicine residency at Stanford followed by Cardiology fellowship within the STAR research track at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her research training in bioinformatics and genetics has given her an appreciation for an analytic approach to assessing individualized risks and benefits of available treatment options. She has extensive experience working with families to interpret genetic testing results and implement appropriate screening for those at risk due to family history. Her passion for physical activity has led her to seek out additional training in the care of athletes with heart conditions.
When not practicing cardiology, she can be found exploring the outdoors. She is an avid distance runner, having completed races including the Boston Marathon and a 50-mile ultramarathon.
Dr. Agah is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Genomic Institute at El Camino Hospital.
Special Interests
Coronary artery disease and intervention
Peripheral vascular disease and intervention
Other Language(s) Spoken
Farsi
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Dr. Ramin Agah is an accomplished cardiologist; prior to joining ACS, he was an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine with the Division of Cardiology at the University of Utah. Dr. Agah is a founder of the RenovoRx technology, which is a medical device company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
He has served as the Chief of Staff at El Camino Hospital from 2014-2016. His approach toward patient care focuses on a holistic approach where not only the disease but the impact of the disease on the individual should be addressed.
On his free time he enjoys reading, pilates, skiing and traveling with his family.
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Bachelor of Arts, 1979
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Doctor of Medicine, 1984
Stanford University Medical Center Internship and Residency, 1984-1987 Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship, 1987-1990 Junior Faculty, 1990-1991
Board Certification
Internal Medicine, 1987
Cardiovascular Disease, 1990
Added Qualification in Interventional Cardiology, 1999
About Dr. St Goar
Dr. St Goar has been practicing cardiology in the El Camino Community for over 28 years. He has a passion for optimizing care, and takes a sincere interest in the long-term health and wellness of his patients, many of whom he has cared for the extent of his practice. He was involved in the early stages of developing an interventional cardiology approach for the management of heart attacks. He is also a leader in structural heart valve repairs and pioneered the catheter-based approach to mitral regurgitation (MR). In 1999 he founded the company Evalve which developed the MitraClip, the sole FDA approved percutaneous therapy of MR. To date, this therapy has been successfully used in over 100,000 patients around the world. Dr. St Goar is also the Medical Director of El Camino Hospital’s Norma Melchor Heart and Vascular Institute. He went to medical school at Harvard and did his internal medicine and cardiology training at Stanford. He is married to Dr Anne Friedlander, who is a Human Biology Professor at Stanford, and he has three grown children. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, skiing and other outdoor activities.
Peninsula Integrative Cardiology provides cutting-edge therapies to cardiology patients in San Ramon, California. With more than four decades of clinical medicine and cardiology experience, Daniel Rieders, MD, FACC, FHRS, CCDS, IFMCP, uses scientific approaches combined with spiritual medicine to treat the whole health of every patient.
Dr. Rieders is a triple-board-certified cardiologist with distinction in moving his patients from disease to health. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara in molecular biology and received his medical degree fromtheUniversity of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Rieders completed his cardiology fellowship at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, formerly the UCLA-VA Medical Center. He has practiced for over three decades in both private clinics and as a faculty member at USC Cardiology.
A decade ago, Dr. Rieders explored the connection between the six different types of health; our physical, financial, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and the health of all our relationships health. While leaving a patient’s financial health to their financial advisor and their mental, psychological, emotional health, and the health of their relationships to the psychologists and psychiatrists, Dr. Rieders decided to focus on the connection between mind, body, and spirit. His purpose of healing people by integrating one’s physical and spiritual health has now become his new passion.
At Peninsula Integrative Cardiology, Dr. Rieders emphasizes the importance of listening deeply to every patient and customizes treatment according to the needs of their mind, body, and soul. The practice combines ancient wisdom, traditional medicine, and the latest in science when helping patients.
Patients seek out the expertise offered at Peninsula Integrative Cardiology to support their cardiology needs and address symptoms like fatigue or obesity. Peptide therapy and ketamine therapy are also part of Dr. Rieders’ treatment offerings.
Dr. Rieders begins the healing process by first developing a relationship with each patient that hopefully gains their trust, so he can better understand their needs while partnering with them in developing solutions that solve their problems and regain both their physical and spiritual well-being.
Call Peninsula Integrative Cardiology and Daniel Rieders, MD, today to schedule an appointment to experience the next level in holistic and innovative integrative care. Telehealth appointments and online scheduling are also available.