Olympic Medical Center welcomes Dr. Zina Hajduczok to the Olympic Medical Heart Center cardiology team, the organization announced last week.

Dr. Hajduczok joins Olympic Medical with more than 30 years of healthcare experience. She will see cardiology patients at the Olympic Medical Physicians’ specialty clinics in Sequim and Port Angeles.

“We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Hajduczok to our cardiology team,” said Dr. Kara Kurtz Urnes, cardiologist and Olympic Medical Heart Center medical director. “She is an experienced cardiologist and adds depth to our outpatient cardiology, stress testing and echocardiography service.”

“I fell in love with the functions of the heart when I studied biology in high school,” Hajduczok said. “Explaining the diagnosis and providing guidance on treatment are very rewarding work for me. I believe that when a patient understands their diagnosis and why the treatment is chosen, that … patient’s health will improve.”

Hajduczok practiced both internal medicine and cardiology in Buffalo, New York for most of her career before relocating to the Pacific Northwest.

In her free time, she enjoys creating landscape oil painting as a trained artist and is a curator of the Ukranian-American Cultural Center on Whidbey Island.

Hajduczok joins cardiologists Dr. Kara Kurtz Urnes, Dr. Amir Kazerouninia, Dr. Ranjini Krishnan, device specialist Dr. Robert Gipe and physician assistants Katherine Hubner and Trevor Jackman as OMP’s heart care team on the Peninsula.

For more information about cardiology at OMC, visit olympicmedical.org/cardiology.