Shannon D Vassallo, PA-C

Capital Heart Associates offers full diagnostic and treatment services. The center specializes in invasive and noninvasive cardiology. Its laboratory is approved by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories. The center offers electrocardiogram testing, echocardiogram, stress echocardiogram, event monitoring and Holter recording, cardiac catheterization, angioplasty and coronary stenting treatment. It also offers treadmill EKG, atherectomy, trans-telephonic pacemaker check, nuclear cardiac imaging, transesophageal echocardiogram, peripheral angiogram and ankle brachial index diagnostic procedure. It accepts various insurance and managed care plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, Aetna, Cigna, Healthcare Savings, Mamsi, United Healthcare, Wellpath, Medcost, Champus and Beech Street. Capital Heart Associates is based in Raleigh and has a branch location in Apex, N.C.

I have been a physician assistant, focusing primarily in cardiovascular disease, originally in the intensive care unit (ICU). Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my children, gardening and reading a good book.

I am a board-certified physician associate who joined UNC in July of 2022 when moving from Texas to North Carolina with my husband and three children. I have worked in the field of womens health since 2007. I truly love working in womens health. The trust placed in me by patients during some of the most intimate parts of their life whether involving sexual health, reproductive health or the transition into menopause is a privilege. I strive to give the care I would want my loved ones or myself to receive to all my patients as I believe an evidence-based and personal approach to patient care strengthens a patient-provider relationship.