Current Fellows

Jonathan Davis, MD

First Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

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

First 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

First Year Fellow

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

Second 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

Second 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

Second 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

Second 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

Second 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

Second 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

Second Year Fellow

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

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Interventional Cardiology
Research interests: Quality improvement in the cardiac catheterization lab, preventive cardiology and cardiorespiratory fitness
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Candace Jackson, MD, MPH

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: General Cardiology
Research interests: Preventive cardiology, cardiovascular epidemiology, familial hypercholesterolemia
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Andrew Lin, MD - Chief Fellow

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Electrophysiology, advanced heart failure
Research interests: CIED management, ventricular arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, advanced heart failure
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John Power, MD

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Advanced heart failure, clinical research
Research interests: Cardio-oncology, cardio-immunology, informatics
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Tatiana Saul, MD - Chief Fellow

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: General cardiology, Advanced heart failure
Research interests: Non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Gary Ma, MD

First Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Academic medicine, mentorship, underserved populations
Research interests: Structural intervention outcomes research, mechanical circulatory support
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Amir Karimian, MD

Second Year Fellow

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Kris Kumar, DO, MS

Second Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Clinical Electrophysiology
Research interests: Atrial fibrillation, cardiac implantable electrical devices
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Oluwole Adegbala, MD

Second 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

Second 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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Antoinette Birs, MD

Gurjaspreet Bhattal, MD

Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
Research interests: Cardiogenic Shock Outcomes and Mechanical Circulatory support
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Serafim Perdikis, MD

Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

Career interests: Advanced heart failure and mechanical circulatory support
Research interests: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Amyloidosis. Chagas disease
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Tarun Ramayya, MD

Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Fellow

Career interests: Non invasive clinical cardiology with a focus on advanced imaging
Research interests: Clinical outcomes research
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