From staff reports
Beaufort Memorial is strengthening access to cardiac care in the Lowcountry with the addition of an experienced cardiologist to its team.
Dr. Terry Grainger, board-certified in cardiovascular disease and fellowship-trained in cardiology, has joined Beaufort Memorial Heart Specialists and is seeing patients in both Beaufort and Okatie. With more than 30 years of experience, he brings a knowledgeable, compassionate approach to diagnosing and treating acute and chronic heart conditions, including congestive heart failure, hypertension and coronary heart disease.
Dr. Grainger earned his medical degree at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, then completed an internal medicine residency at Pitt County Memorial Hospital and a cardiology fellowship at East Carolina University of Medicine, both in Greenville, N.C.
Specializing in preventive cardiology, Dr. Grainger partners closely with his patients to support healthy lifestyle habits and reduce the risk of heart disease.
“I treat patients the way I want my own family to be treated,” he said, noting that building strong relationships with patients is one of the most rewarding aspects of his work.
In addition to coronary heart disease and congestive heart failure, Dr. Grainger’s clinical experience includes sleep and obesity medicine. He joins Beaufort Memorial from Prisma Health in Columbia, S.C., where he treated patients with a wide range of heart conditions and sleep disorders, including sleep apnea.
Providers at Beaufort Memorial Heart Specialists focus on cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology, offering a broad range of services, including angioplasty and pacemaker placement. These providers also help patients manage heart disease risk factors such as hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes and high cholesterol.
At the practice, Dr. Grainger joins board-certified interventional cardiologists Drs. Stuart Smalheiser and Francis O’Neill, as well as physician assistant Tara Kay, MMS, PA-C and nurse practitioner Nicole Gray, MSN, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC.
