Our Advanced
Practitioners
Our provider team includes specially trained, licensed, and boarded Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to assist in patient care throughout all stages of treatment.
Mindi Allison
MSN APRN AGACNP-BC
Mindi Allison works with Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Bouyella Reddy. Her clinical experience includes 26 years as a Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nurse...
Erin Bannerman
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Erin Bannerman supports the physicians of Cardiovascular Medicine in the hospital setting. Her previous work experience includes working on the Cardiac...
Lindsey Bollaert
MSN, APN, FNP-C
Lindsey Bollaert works exclusively with Cardiologist Dr. Param Singh. Her prior clinical experience includes seven years as a nurse in the Emergency Department...
Cara Brown
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Cara Brown works with electrophysiologist, Dr. Rajiv Mallik. Her prior clinical experience includes 14 years as a Registered Nurse, nine in Cardiac Stepdown,...
Cyndi Burkholder
MS ARNP ACNP-BC
Cyndi Burkholder, MS, ARNP, ACNP-BC, is an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner working with CVM’s Electrophysiology team. Cyndi started at CVM in 2010 with a...
Robert Cobert
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Robert Cobert works with Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Sanjeev Puri. His clinical experience includes 4 years as a nurse in the intensive care unit at...
Judi Deckert
MS, ARNP, FNP-BC
Judi Deckert provides patient care in Cardiovascular Medicine’s Cholesterol Management Program under the leadership of the Medical Director. She prescribes and...
Becky Drehman
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Becky works exclusively with Dr. Sora Reddy. Her clinical experience started over nine years ago working in cardiology at Genesis. She has over three years of...
Shawna Duske
MS, ARNP, ACNP-BC
Shawna Duske works with Peripheral Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Nicolas Shammas. Her wealth of knowledge stems from a clinical, diagnostic, and risk...
Ruth Gbadeyan
MSN, APN, AGACNP-BC
Ruth works exclusively with Dr. Bouyella Reddy.Her prior clinical experience includes 17 years as a nurse working at UnityPoint Health Trinity as well as a...
Tara Gengler
MSN, APN, ACNP-BC
Tara Gengler works with Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Bouyella Reddy. Her clinical experience includes six years as a Primary Care Provider for Genesis...
Jessica Gould
MSN, APN, FNP-C
Jesica Gould works with Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Faraz Manazir. Her clinical experience includes eight years as a nurse in the Cardiac Cath Lab at...
Alyssa Hartweg
MSN, ARNP, FNP-BC
Alyssa Hartweg supports the physicians of Cardiovascular Medicine in the hospital setting. Her prior clinical experience includes nine years in the Emergency...
Meghan Hite
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Meghan Hite works exclusively with Cardiologist Dr. Param Singh. Her prior clinical experience includes nine years as a nurse in the emergency department and...
Cassandra King
MS, APN, ANP-BC
Cassandra King works exclusively with Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Faraz Manazir and has supported his practice since 2011. Her clinical experience includes...
Joe Kopera
DNP, ARNP, AGACNP-BC
Joe supports the physicians of Cardiovascular Medicine in the hospital setting. His prior clinical experience includes 8 years of medical and cardiac critical...
Michelle Lake
DNP, APRN, AGACNP
Michelle Lake works exclusively with the Hospitalist program. Her prior clinical experience includes eight years as a nurse in the ICU and two years in the...
Toni Martin
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Toni Martin supports the physicians of Cardiovascular Medicine in the hospital setting, transitioning to this role after nine years assisting the office based...
Trisha McIntosh
MS, ARNP, ACNP-BC
Trisha McIntosh is a seasoned Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner with Cardiovascular Medicine. She currently works in many capacities within the practice;...
Shannon Mentzer
MSN, ARNP, FNP-BC
Shannon Mentzer works with interventional and peripheral cardiologist Dr. Jon Robken. Her prior clinical experience with cardiology includes serving as the...
Hayley Mills
DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC
Hayley Mills works with Electrophysiologist, Dr. Helbert Acosta. Her prior clinical experience includes working as an Acute Care Registered Nurse on...
Christi Nelson
MSN, ARNP, FNP
Christi Nelson is a Nurse Practitioner who works exclusively with Dr. Witcik. She started her nursing career in the Emergency Department in 1991, later...
Shauna Nuci
MSN, ARNP, FNP-BC
Shauna Nuci works with Cardiologist Dr. Rafat F. Padaria. She began her career in health care at Genesis Medical Center where she worked for 13.5 years as a...
Rhonda Peterson
MSN, APN, ACNP-BC
Rhonda Peterson works with interventional cardiologist Dr. Aswartha Pothula. Her cardiac experience includes 11 years working as a registered nurse providing...
Todd Stone
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Todd Stone works with Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Sora Reddy. His clinical experience includes four years as a nurse in the cardiac stepdown unit and five...
Cara Voelliger
MS, DNP, ARNP, AGACNP-BC
Cara Voelliger works with Interventional Cardiologist, Dr. Srikanth Kasula. Her cardiac experience includes five years working in the Intensive Care Unit at...
Jordyn Werderitch
MSN, AGPCNP-BC
Jordyn Werderitch works with Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Sanjeev Puri. Her prior clinical experience includes 1.5 years as a Nurse Practitioner for the...
Danielle Wesner
MSN, APN, FNP-BC
Danielle works exclusively with Dr. Shen. Her prior clinical experience includes 15 years in healthcare starting as a CNA on a Cardiac Step Down Unit until...
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Our Advanced
Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants assist our Physicians in providing the best care for patients with heart failure, heart attacks, angina, cardiac, and vein diseases as permitted by their licensure.
Joe Kopera
DNP, ARNP, AGACNP-BC
Joe supports the physicians of Cardiovascular Medicine in the hospital setting. His prior clinical experience includes 8 years of medical and cardiac critical care as a registered nurse.
Joe attended St. Ambrose University and graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2016. He furthered his education by attending the University of Illinois at Chicago, receiving his Doctorate of Nursing Practice with the specialty of Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in 2024.
Joe is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Joe's professional interests include critical care, rehabilitation, dysrhythmia management, and professional relationship development. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and daughter. He also enjoys fly fishing, making fly fishing lures, and gardening.
Preventive Services
Our team of physicians, researchers, and patient care specialists are focused specifically on cardiovascular best practices and lifesaving heart and vein care.