Stephen Harry Metropol, MD

Lawren Honken, MD, received her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Augusta University Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia.

Barry J. Feldman, MD, MHCM, FACC, FACP, FSCAI, is chief of cardiology at Prisma Health Cardiology and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He currently serves as program director for the Prisma Health–Midlands/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia Cardiology Fellowship Program. Dr. Feldman earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Harvard University Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He completed a cardiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and is board certified in cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant. Feldman completed a master's in healthcare management at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2014, and his current responsibilities include the roles of executive medical director of cardiovascular services at Prisma Health–Midlands and co-chair of the Prisma Health Cardiovascular Council. He provides outpatient care at Prisma Health Cardiology's Columbia locations and the Advanced Heart Health Center at Prisma Health Heart Hospital. He has inpatient privileges at all Prisma Health hospital campuses in Columbia.

Originally from Chapin, South Carolina, Michael Cryer, MD, earned his medical degree at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia. He then completed both an internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Prisma Health in the Midlands. After two more fellowships – interventional cardiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and structural heart in Tucson, Arizona – he returned to Columbia to practice both general cardiology and interventional cardiology. Dr. Cryer specializes in catheter-based procedures, including heart stenting for patients having heart attacks or chest pains. He also focuses on structural cardiology, where he can fix heart valves with minimally invasive procedures. He loves cardiology because of the long-term patient/physician relationship. He stays up to date on the latest technology to help his patients get better faster and makes sure they understand the issue and the “whys and hows” of treatment. Outside of work, he loves spending time with his wife and young children. He takes care of himself by running and working out.