Current Fellows

Michael Ahlers, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Advanced HF/Interventional/General
Research interests: Acute MI and Cardiogenic Shock, Heart Failure, Biomarkers, Prevention
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Masihullah Barat, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Academic physician
Research interests: Cardiac amyloidosis, giant cell myocarditis, COVID-19 in heart transplant
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Adam Custer, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure, General Cardiology
Research interests: Waitlist performance metrics and outcomes, recipient/donor selection, EHR-based tools to improve appropriate aspirin/statin prescription rates
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Sonya John, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Critical Care, General Cardiology
Research interests: Outcomes in mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation
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Emily Nguyen, MD PhD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: General Cardiology, Imaging, Women's health
Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, cardiac metabolomics
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Revathy Sampath-Kumar, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Cardiac Critical Care, Interventional Cardiology
Research interests: Inferior vena cava diameter guided heart failure management, clinical trial development
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Musa Shakoor, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Interventional Cardiology
Research interests: Lipids
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Daniel Chu, MD

Second Year Fellow

Candace Jackson, MD, MPH

Second Year Fellow

Andrew Lin, MD

Second Year Fellow

John Power, MD

Second Year Fellow

Tatiana Saul, MD

Second Year Fellow

Omar Aldaas, MD

Third Year Fellow

Omid Behnamfar, MD, MSc

Third Year Fellow

Antoinette Birs, MD - Chief Fellow

Third Year Fellow

Alison (Ali) Brann, MD

Third Year Fellow

Gary Ma, MD - Chief Fellow

Third Year Fellow

Bryan Wu, MD

Third Year Fellow

Amir Karimian, MD

First Year Fellow

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Kris Kumar, DO, MS

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Academic Interventional/Structural heart interventions
Research interests: Structural heart intervention outcomes, Cardiogenic shock
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Abdullah Almasoud, MD

Second Year Fellow

Alayn Govea, MD

Second Year Fellow

Oluwole Adegbala, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Catheter ablation, device implantation and lead extraction
Research interests: : Risk modelling and performance analysis on big data, machine learning and ablation technologies and outcome research.
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Anne-Sophie Lacharite-Roberge, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: everything electrophysiology, including extractions! Patient, physician and trainee advocacy at the government and ACGME level, women in EP and women in cardiology mentorship.
Research interests: still developing to be honest. I did a lot of work with our CTEPH population at Temple and hoping to integrate EP research to this during the course of my EP fellowship. 
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Yang Yang, MD

Second Year Fellow

Kavisha Patel, MD

Second Year Fellow

Quan Bui, MD

Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

Antonio Duran, MD

Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

Career interests: heart transplant and MCS, exercise hemodynamics 
Research interests: MCS outcomes, LVAD pump optimization, health disparities in advanced heart failure
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Amin Sabet, MD

Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Fellow

Career interests: Advanced cardiac Imaging, interventional echo
Research interests: Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT
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