The Ovadia Heart Health Team
The People Keeping You Off the Operating Table
Physicians, health coaches and care specialists working together toward one goal: preventing one million heart attacks.
Medical Team
Physicians and clinicians focused on prevention, not intervention.
Dr. Philip Ovadia
Founder & Medical Director · Cardiac SurgeonDr. Ovadia has spent much of his career operating on people with heart disease, and began asking why so many of them ended up on his table. A heart surgeon who was once 100 pounds overweight himself, he changed the way he ate and lived, lost the weight, and founded Ovadia Heart Health and iFixHearts to help people improve their metabolic and heart health before they need surgery.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Consultant CardiologistDr. Malhotra is a multi-award-winning consultant cardiologist with more than 25 years in medicine and one of the world’s most recognized voices on cardiovascular and population health. Trained in the NHS, he specializes in preventive cardiology, with a focus on obesity, diet and lifestyle as drivers of heart disease, and practices with a strong emphasis on shared decision-making.
Lisa Simmons, NP, CKNS
Nurse PractitionerLisa brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience and a deep focus on proactive care, emphasizing lifestyle changes and nutrition to improve metabolic health. She demystifies complex lab data, including insulin resistance and inflammation, and offers targeted support in male and female hormone health, issues often overlooked in traditional healthcare.
Health Coaches
Coaches who have lived the change they teach.
Our coaches help you turn a plan into daily habits: nutrition, movement, sleep, stress and the consistency that holds it all together.
Chris Cornell
Health CoachChris helps patients build practical, sustainable habits to improve metabolic health, fitness and quality of life. After losing 80 pounds, he draws on his own transformation and coaching training to help patients strengthen the foundations of health: nutrition, resistance training, movement, sleep and consistency. He is a Metabolic Health Practitioner and Primal Master Health Coach.
Nora Kemmerer
Health CoachWith 16 years of experience in cardiac imaging, Nora brings both professional expertise and personal experience to her role as a Certified Primal Health Coach. Having lost and maintained a 140-pound weight loss through a meat-based, whole-food, low-carbohydrate lifestyle, she understands firsthand the challenges of obesity and the power of sustainable lifestyle changes.
Krisna Hanks
Health CoachKrisna brings more than 30 years of experience coaching health, fitness and worksite wellness across the USA, Europe and Asia. She is a Certified Metabolic Health Practitioner and a Low-Carb/Ketogenic Coach Practitioner™ through Nutrition Network, with an MS in Kinesiology from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. She lives in Arizona and enjoys hiking and outdoor life.
Jen Cleveland
Health CoachJen is a Registered Dietitian with more than 30 years of experience helping clients improve metabolic health, including diabetes, obesity and fatty liver disease. She holds a BS in Nutrition and a Master’s Degree in Medical Science from Indiana University School of Medicine, and supports a low-carb, food-as-medicine approach that reduces cravings and improves long-term health.
Kelsey Buchalter
Health CoachKelsey is a Nutrition Network Practitioner (NNP), Sankofa Peer Recovery Coach, TEDx speaker and host of “The Human Theatre” podcast. After navigating her way through severe anorexia, bulimia and anxiety, she has become passionately outspoken about lifestyle interventions in the treatment and prevention of chronic disease, inspired by the body’s innate ability to heal itself.
Operations
The team that makes high‑touch care possible.
Scott Gingold
Chief Operating OfficerScott has spent decades building, growing and leading businesses, and has built and successfully exited seven companies. As COO of Ovadia Heart Health and iFixHearts, he makes sure the people, operations and systems are ready for where the company is going, while never losing sight of why it exists: helping people live longer, healthier lives and working to prevent one million heart attacks.
Jaclyn Padovano, RD, CDCES
Practice DirectorJaclyn leads clinical and practice operations at Ovadia Heart Health, working across care delivery, technology, team performance and patient experience. With more than 10 years in healthcare and digital health, she specializes in turning complex care-delivery challenges into practical systems and workflows that make care more efficient, coordinated and personalized.
Renée Trask
Patient Success SpecialistOften called the “glue” of the company, Renée holds teams, projects and people together. With a talent for organization and a steady, solutions-oriented mindset, she keeps operations running smoothly behind the scenes and everyone aligned and moving forward with clarity and purpose. Outside of work, Renée loves raising her kids in the farmland of Pennsylvania.
Abigail Zells
Metabolic Health CoordinatorAbigail serves as the essential link between patients and their health journeys. With over a decade of experience in healthcare, she guides patients by connecting them with the right resources, whether coaches or direct care with Dr. Ovadia, and handles patient management and care coordination so each member receives personalized attention.
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