Meet Our Team
Michael R. Liske, MD
Dr. Liske was born in British Columbia, Canada, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1989. He completed his residency in general pediatrics with the Air Force at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in conjunction with Dayton's Children's Medical Center, following which he was selected as Pediatric Chief Resident. Thereafter, he served as a general pediatrician with the Air Force for 3 years. In 1996, he began his Pediatric Cardiology training at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and completed his training at the University of Michigan in 1999, with a special emphasis in advanced echocardiographic imaging.
From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Liske practiced cardiology in Knoxville, bringing many innovations to the echocardiography laboratory. From 2003 to 2009, he held an academic position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, playing an instrumental role in their echocardiography laboratory and fetal cardiology clinic, managing critically ill post-operative patients, training of the next generation of pediatric cardiologists, and conducting published research in fetal arrhythmias, screening for critical heart defects in newborn infants, rare structural heart conditions, pre-operative management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, pulmonary hypertension in Down syndrome patients, and screening for acute rheumatic fever. He continues to maintain an active affiliation with the Vanderbilt team.
Dr. Liske has a particular passion for the care of patients in underserved regions of the world, and led the first Vanderbilt cardiac surgical team to Kenya's Tenwek Hospital in 2008, where surgical repairs were successfully completed on 9 children and young adults. He continues to be involved in the leadership of this ongoing project.
Dr. Liske is pleased to join Dr. Bremer in the newly formed East Tennessee Pediatric Cardiology practice, established the summer of 2009. They are determined to ensure that you get the best care available in the state, and that you leave each encounter 100% satisfied, with a firm understanding of your cardiac condition, and all questions answered. He is excited to be back in East Tennessee with his wife Angela, and their four children.
Yvonne A. Bremer, MD
Dr. Bremer is a native of the colder corner of the US, Buffalo, NY and graduated from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 1998. That is where she met her husband Rick, who is also a physician, a Hospitalist in Oak Ridge. From there, she finished an Internship and Residency in Pediatrics at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals / Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and stayed on to finish a Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology where she received exceptional training with a specific focus on echocardiography, including fetal echocardiography. After finishing her Fellowship, she moved to East Tennessee where she has been practicing Pediatric Cardiology in private practice for over 5 years. She was very excited to partner with Dr. Liske at East Tennessee Pediatric Cardiology where they have made it their mission to provide the best possible care for patients in this region. Dr. Bremer particularly enjoys the counseling component of her practice, the emotional attachment, and being able to spend time with her patients, especially fulfilled when able to give the comfort, support and understanding to a patient and their family. She believes this unique setting has given her the opportunity to continue to strive to do the very best for her patients, to whom she is commited. When not working, Dr. Bremer loves to spend time with her family enjoying the outdoors, the climate and natural beauty this area has to offer. She and her husband have been blessed with 2 children and feel extremely fortunate to be able to raise their family here.