Current Fellows

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
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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
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Melody Huang, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Women's cardiovascular health, cardio-obstetrics

Apurva Khedagi, MD, MS

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Prevention, Advanced Imaging
Research interests: Heart disease in South Asians, Health Disparities
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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
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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
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Shelief Robbins-Juarez, MD

First Year Fellow

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

Second Year Fellow

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

Second 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

Second Year Fellow

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

Second 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

Second 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

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
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Iosif Taleb, MD

Second Year Fellow

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

Third 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

Third 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

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
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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
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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
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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
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Musa Shakoor, MD

Third Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

Daniel Kim MD, MS

First Year Fellow

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

Gary Ma, MD

Second Year Fellow

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

Second Year Fellow

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

First Year Fellow

Wasiq Sheikh, MD

First Year Fellow

Career interests: Hybrid Academic/Private Practice
Research interests: AI and Electrophysiology
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Omar Aldaas, MD

Second Year Fellow

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

Second Year Fellow

Career interests: Clinical Electrophysiology
Research interests: Atrial fibrillation, cardiac implantable electrical devices
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Alexander Hajduczok, MD

Heart Failure & Transplant Fellow

Career interests: Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant
Research interests: Remote monitoring, hemodynamics, clinical trials
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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
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