John Kevin Baugh, MD

Richard A. Edelson, MD, PhD, FACC, is a cardiologist with Prisma Health Cardiology and a clinical assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his PhD in biological chemistry at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, where he also served his internship and residency in internal medicine and completed a fellowship in cardiology. Dr. Edelson is board certified in cardiovascular disease and currently serves at the medical director of Nuclear Medicine at Prisma Health–Midlands.

Cynthia Pridgen, MD, received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati. She completed her internship at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle, New York, and completed her residency at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn. She also holds an MBA from the University of South Carolina, and is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Thomas W. Schultz, DO, is a cardiologist at Prisma Health Cardiology in Columbia, South Carolina, and a clinical assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens and completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in general cardiology at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. He then completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at the University of Connecticut at Hartford Hospital in Hartford. Dr. Schultz is board certified in cardiovascular disease, internal medicine and interventional cardiology, and is currently reading vascular studies. He is skilled in adult transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, percutaneous coronary intervention, permanent pacemaker implantation and peripheral diagnostics.