Donald J. Tanis, MD

Donald J. Tanis, MD, is the director of cardiology at Rush Oak Park Hospital. Tanis received his medical education at UMDNJ-Rutger’s Medical School and completed his internship at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He spent four years as a general medical officer in the U.S. Navy and then completed a residency in internal medicine at Yale University. He completed a fellowship in cardiology and interventional cardiology at Rush University Medical Center. He was in private practice in a five-person group in northwest Indiana for six years before returning to Rush in September 2002.

Tanis has expertise in clinical, nuclear and interventional cardiology. He is certified by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology. Tanis also performs stress and transesophageal echocardiography. His research interests include comparison of noninvasive measures of cardiac risk as well as the treatment and prevention of coronary artery disease.