Meet Our Team

Our renowned providers are dedicated to offering the highest quality of pulmonary and sleep disorder consultation services.

Our health care professionals have trained at some of the top medical centers in the nation, have decades of combined pulmonary and critical care medicine experience, and are locally recognized leaders in the delivery of pulmonary care in the Northeast Miami-Dade and Broward County area. Get to know our staff here.

Physicians

All of our physicians are board-certified in pulmonary medicine.

Dr. Vincenzo
Novara

Team Principal

Dr. Martin
Valdivia-Arenas

MD 

Dr. Anthony
Panariello

MD 

Dr. Marisela
Rives-Sanchez

MD 

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Dr. Vincenzo Novara

MD – Founder and CEO

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Dr. Martin Valdivia-Arenas

MD 

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Dr. Anthony Panariello

MD 

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Dr. Marisela Rives-Sanchez

MD 

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Dr. Saad Ashraf

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Dr. Vincenzo Novara

Dr. Vincenzo Novara received his residency training at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital. He then completed fellowships in Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital. Additionally, he completed a dedicated Fellowship in Sleep Disorders at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

He holds a Board certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Medical Specialties in Critical Care, and Pulmonary Disease.

Dr. Novara, areas of special interest include evaluation and management of obstructive airway diseases, evaluation of lung nodules, respiratory failure and ventilator management, multi organ dysfunction syndromes, pulmonary embolism, sleep disorder breathing, pulmonary infections, and fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

Additionally, he specializes in the execution of ICU quality and utilization improvement processes, implementation of high-quality cost-efficient ICU delivery models, development of operational efficiencies and structuring of complex medical staff operations.

Dr. Novara is a member of the American thoracic society, society of critical care medicine, and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He holds leadership positions in many different area hospitals

Dr. Novara is fluent in English and Spanish and is currently accepting new patients

Dr. Martin Arenas-Valdivia

Dr. Valdivia received his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital.  He then completed fellowships in Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at Ohio State University / Wexner Medical Center.

He holds a board certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Medical Specialties in Critical Care and Pulmonary Disease.

Dr. Valdivia has published multiple medical studies to date.

Dr. Valdivia’s special interest include, Interstitial Lung Disease, Pulmonary Infections, Sepsis, Ventilator Management, Evaluation of Lung Nodules and Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy.

Dr. Valdivia is fluent in both English and Spanish. He is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Anthony Panariello

Dr. Panariello received his residency training in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Elmhurt Center, in New York. He then completed a Pulmonary fellowship at Mount Sinai Elmhurt Center, in New York. 

He holds Board certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Medical Specialties in Internal Medicine, and Pulmonary Diseases.

Dr. Panariello is a member of the American College of Physicians, and the American College of CHEST Physicians. 

In addition to Dr. Panariello’s professional medical success, he holds an active military position as Commander in the U.S. Navy, Medical Corps, Reserves

Dr. Panariello’s area of special interest include Pulmonary Infections, Ventilator Management, Respiratory failure, Obstructive Airway Diseases, and Pleural Diseases. 

Dr. Panariello is fluent in English and functionally proficient in Medical Spanish. He is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Marisela Rives

Dr. Rives received her Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Miami / JFK Medical Center Campus. She then completed fellowships in Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Additionally, she completed a Sleep disorders Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

She holds Board certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Medical Specialties in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Disorder Medicine.

Dr. Rives’s areas of special interest includes Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease/Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome Overlap, Ventilator Management and Optimization of Positive Airway pressure.

Dr. Rives is a member of the American Thoracic Society, American College of CHEST Physicians and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Rives is fluent in both English and Spanish. She is currently accepting new patients.