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Current Fellows

General Cardiology

  • Theodore B. Curran, MD

    Theodore B. Curran, MD

    First 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

    First Year Fellow

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

    Melody Huang, MD

    First Year Fellow

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

    Apurva Khedagi, MD, MS

    First 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

    First 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

    First 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

    First 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

    Second Year Fellow

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

    Gourisree Dharmavaram, MD

    Second 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

    Second 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

    Second 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

    Second 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

    Second 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
    Research publications: view publications
  • Iosif Taleb, MD

    Iosif Taleb, MD

    Second Year Fellow

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

    Michael Ahlers, MD

    Third Year Fellow

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

    Masihullah Barat, MD

    Third Year Fellow

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

    Adam Custer, MD

    Third 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
    Research publications: view publications
  • Sonya John, MD

    Sonya John, MD

    Third Year Fellow

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

    Emily Nguyen, MD PhD

    Third Year Fellow

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

    Revathy Sampath-Kumar, MD

    Third Year Fellow

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

    Musa Shakoor, MD

    Third Year Fellow

    Career interests: Interventional Cardiology
    Research interests: Lipids
    Research publications: view publications

Interventional Cardiology

  • Daniel Chu, MD

    Daniel Chu, MD

    First 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

    First Year Fellow

    Career interests: Academics in Interventional/Structural Cardiology
    Research interests: Structural interventions
  • Gary Ma, MD

    Gary Ma, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Structural Cardiac Interventions
    Research interests: Tricuspid regurgitation, right ventricular function, lipoprotein(a)
    Research publications: view publications
  • César Soria Jiménez, MD

    César Soria Jiménez, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Academic medicine, mentorship, underserved populations
    Research interests: Structural intervention outcomes research, mechanical circulatory support
    Research publications: view publications

Electrophysiology

  • 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
  • Omar Aldaas, MD

    Omar Aldaas, MD

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Academic Electrophysiology
    Research interests: Atrial Fibrillation
    Research publications: view publications
  • Erin Dreessens, DO

    Erin Dreessens, DO

    Second Year Fellow

    Career interests: Clinical Electrophysiology
    Research interests: Atrial fibrillation, cardiac implantable electrical devices
    Research publications: view publications

     

Advanced Heart Failure

  • Alexander Hajduczok, MD

    Alexander Hajduczok, MD

    Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

    Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant
    Research interests: Remote monitoring, hemodynamics, clinical trials
    Research publications: view publications
  • Miguel Martillo Correa, MD

    Miguel Martillo Correa, MD

    Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

    Career interests: Critical Care Cardiology
    Cardiogenic shock and mechanical circulatory support
    Heart transplant
    Research interests: Cardiogenic Shock
    Research publications: view publications