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Current Fellows

General Cardiology

  • Rodrigo Barriola-Rubarth, MD

    Rodrigo Barriola-Rubarth, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology; Cardiac Critical Care; Medical Education
    Research interests: Cardiogenic Shock; Advanced Heart Failure; Cardiac Hemodynamics
    Research publications: view publications
  • Maedha Begur, MD

    Maedha Begur, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Electrophysiology, General Cardiology, Critical Care
    Research interests: Arrhythmias, Pacing Devices, Inflammatory Heart Disease, Health Care Disparities
    Research publications: view publications
  • Yusi Gong, MD

    Yusi Gong, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Academic Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology, Vascular Disease, Hypertension
    Research interests: Cardiovascular outcomes in older adults, frailty, lifestyle on cardiovascular risk
    Research publications: view publications
  • Max Jason, MD

    Max Jason, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Interventional Cardiology, Critical Care
    Research interests: Genetic Cardiomyopathies, mechanical circulatory support
  • Saurabh Sudesh, MD

    Saurabh Sudesh, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Electrophysiology
    Research interests: Cardiac resynchronization therapy, arrhythmias
    Research publications: view publications
  • David Timmer, MD

    David Timmer, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: General Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure, and Medical Education
    Research interests: Heart Failure, Disparities in Heart Failure
  • Alexander Wells, MD

    Alexander Wells, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: General Cardiology, Electrophysiology
    Research interests: Cardiovascular Genetics, Biomedical informatics
    Research publications: view publications
  • Theodore B. Curran, MD

    Theodore B. Curran, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Academic Medicine, Preventive Cardiology, Advanced Imaging
    Research interests: Development and validation of technologies for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases
    Research publications: view publications
  • Jessica Hong, MD

    Jessica Hong, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: General Cardiology, Basic Science
    Research interests: Molecular underpinnings of cardiac inflammation and fibrosis, synthetic biology, multi-omics
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  • Melody Huang, MD

    Melody Huang, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Women's cardiovascular health, cardio-obstetrics
  • Apurva Khedagi, MD, MS

    Apurva Khedagi, MD, MS

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Prevention, Advanced Imaging
    Research interests: Heart disease in South Asians, Health Disparities
    Research publications: view publications
  • Emily Margolin, MD

    Emily Margolin, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure; General Cardiology
    Research interests: Optimizing heart failure management to improve clinical outcomes; social determinants of health in cardiovascular care; patient-reported outcomes
    Research publications: view publications
  • Rebecca Ocher, MD

    Rebecca Ocher, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Preventive Cardiology; General Cardiology; Women's Cardiovascular Health
    Research interests: Mitral Regurgitation; Preventive Cardiology; POTS; Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Care and Outcomes
    Research publications: view publications
  • Shelief Robbins-Juarez, MD

    Shelief Robbins-Juarez, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Electrophysiology
    Research interests: Atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation, disparities in care for patients with AF
    Research publications: view publications
  • Jonathan Davis, MD

    Jonathan Davis, MD

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure, General Cardiology
    Research interests: Cardiac transplantation
    Research publications: view publications
  • Gourisree Dharmavaram, MD

    Gourisree Dharmavaram, MD

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Cardiac imaging, heart failure, general cardiology
    Research interests: CT imaging on heart failure and transplant, QI
    Research publications: view publications
  • Benjamin Hoffman, MD PhD

    Benjamin Hoffman, MD PhD

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Electrophysiology, Basic Science
    Research interests: Neural innervation and regulation of cardiac physiology
    Research publications: view publications
  • Chaitanya Malladi, MD

    Chaitanya Malladi, MD

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Electrophysiology
    Research interests: Catheter ablation techniques, left atrial appendage occlusion, anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation
    Research publications: view publications
  • Praneet Mylavarapu, MD MS

    Praneet Mylavarapu, MD MS

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Critical Care, General Cardiology
    Research interests: Artificial Intelligence and Cardiology,
    Research publications: view publications
  • Kevin Sung, MD MS

    Kevin Sung, MD MS

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Electrophysiology, Advanced Heart Failure
    Research interests: Novel ablation techniques, stereotactic ablation, sudden cardiac death risk stratification, ECG forward solution computational arrhythmia mapping
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  • Iosif Taleb, MD

    Iosif Taleb, MD

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Academic Cardiovascular Medicine
    Research interests: Cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, myocardial recovery
    Research publications: view publications

Interventional Cardiology

  • Revathy Sampath-Kumar, MD

    Revathy Sampath-Kumar, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Cardiac Critical Care, Interventional Cardiology
    Research interests: Interventional cardiology outcomes, bioengineering/device development, inferior vena cava diameter guided heart failure management, clinical trials
  • Mike Ahlers, MD

    Mike Ahlers, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Interventional Cardiology and Structural Cardiology
    Research interests: Interventional Cardiology and Structural Cardiology
  • Daniel Chu, MD

    Daniel Chu, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Coronary and peripheral interventions, administration
    Research interests: Quality improvement in the cardiac catheterization lab, preventive cardiology
  • Daniel Kim MD, MS

    Daniel Kim MD, MS

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Academics in Interventional/Structural Cardiology
    Research interests: Structural interventions

Electrophysiology

  • Chaitanya Malladi, MD

    Chaitanya Malladi, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Electrophysiology
    Research interests: Catheter ablation techniques, left atrial appendage occlusion, anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation
    Research publications: view publications

     
  • Kavin Raj, MD

    Kavin Raj, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: My goal is to become a confident and competent electrophysiologist with strong procedural skills and a deep understanding of complex arrhythmias. I also intend to continue pursuing outcomes-based research in electrophysiology. With a passion for teaching fellows and medical students, I aspire to work in an academic environment where I can contribute to both clinical care and education.
    Research interests:I have a strong interest in complex survey data analysis using large databases such as HCUP and TriNetX to address clinically meaningful questions. With a background in biostatistics, I often collaborate with other researchers by assisting with the analytical components of their projects. Currently, our team is investigating the impact of cannabis use on arrhythmias and evaluating the safety of leadless pacemakers. I look forward to advancing my knowledge in biostatistics and contributing to randomized studies that aim to answer important questions in the field of electrophysiology.
    Research publications: view publications
  • Francis J. Hartge IV, MD

    Francis J. Hartge IV, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death, sports cardiology, arrhythmias in tactical athletes, cardiology education
    Research interests: Accessory pathways, idiopathic ventricular tachycardia
  • Andrew Lin, MD

    Andrew Lin, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: I hope to pursue a career in academic electrophysiology combining clinical EP, research, and education.
    Research interests: Treatment of arrhythmias in patients with heart failure, CIED and lead management
    Research publications: view publications
  • Wasiq Sheikh, MD

    Wasiq Sheikh, MD

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Hybrid Academic/Private Practice
    Research interests: AI and Electrophysiology
    Research publications: view publications

Advanced Heart Failure

  • Neal Dixit, MD

    Neal Dixit, MD

    Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

    Career interests: Heart transplant, cardiogenic shock, LVAD.
    Research interests:GDMT, cost-effectiveness, implementation science, and population health.
    Research publications: view publications
  • Mansi Oberi, MD

    Mansi Oberi, MD

    Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow