A graduate of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, Dr. Wharton earned his medical degree in 1988 from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco, CA, in 1991, and served as a staff internist at Womack Army Medical Center at Ft. Bragg, NC, prior to entering the cardiology fellowship program at the Duke University School of Medicine.

He has also undergone special training in echocardiography, and is the author or co-author of numerous publications and presentation in his field. Dr. Wharton specializes in general cardiology, cardiac catheterization and echocardiography.

He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and by the National Board of Medical Examiners, and is a Fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Wharton joined Asheville Cardiology in 1998, after completing his fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Duke University in Durham, NC. He is also a clinical cardiologist at Mission St. Joseph’s Health System in Asheville. He joined the medical staff at HCH in the summer of 2003.