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

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

Second Year Fellow

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

Second 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

Second Year Fellow

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

Second Year Fellow

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

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Electrophysiology, atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation
Research interests: Outcomes after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, novel ablation techniques, left atrial appendage occlusion, anticoagulation with direct oral anticoagulants
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Omid Behnamfar, MD, MSc

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Interventional Cardiology
Research interests: Balloon pulmonary Angioplasty in CTEPH; Coronary and peripheral CTO interventional techniques and results; TAVR outcomes
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Antoinette Birs, MD - Chief Fellow

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Advanced heart failure, interventional cardiology
Research interests: Risk prediction and health outcomes, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, right ventricular pathology, infiltrative heart disease, heart disease in women
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Alison (Ali) Brann, MD

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Cardiac critical care, advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, imaging
Research interests: Outcomes in mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation, heart failure risk prediction
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Gary Ma, MD - Chief Fellow

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: Academic Physician-Science
Research interests: Calcified Aortic Valve Disease, Lipoprotein(a)
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Bryan Wu, MD

Third Year Fellow

Career interests: General cardiology    
Research interests: Hypertension, hemodynamic principles of cardiovascular diseases. 
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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

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Alayn Govea, MD

Second Year Fellow

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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

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Quan Bui, MD

Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

Career interests: Heart failure, genetic cardiomyopathies, personalized medicine, cardiac medical devices
Research interests: Genetic cardiomyopathies, HCM phenocopies, Danon Disease, myocardial strain
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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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