Meet our current cardiology fellows by their program listed below:
- Interventional Fellows
- Structural Fellow
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellows
- Heart Failure Fellows
- Advanced Echocardiography and Imaging Fellows
- T32 Fellow
- Cardiovascular Disease Fellows
Interventional Fellows
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Abdulhamied Alfaddagh, MD
Hometown: Kuwait
Medical School: Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Coronary artery disease
Research Interest: Mechanisms and determinants of coronary plaque progression or regression -
Rimsky Denis
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Medical School: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Interventional and Structural Cardiology
Research Interest: Health Inequities in Cardiovascular Disease -
Pranoti Hiremath, MD
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Clinical Interest: General cardiology and cardiovascular imaging
Research Interest: Medical device and algorithm development, intraoperative imaging
Structural Fellows
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Daniel Ambinder, M.D.
Hometown: Monsey, New York
Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Cardiovascular disease
Research Interests: Atherosclerotic heart disease and cardiac critical care
He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed residency in the Osler Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he also completed his general cardiology fellowship. Clinical and research interests include resuscitation of cardiac arrest, mechanical circulatory support, coronary and structural heart disease. -
Jacqueline Latina
Hometown: North Andover, MA
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: General cardiology, Non-invasive cardiovascular imaging
Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease Prevention and Epidemiology
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellows
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Fabrizio Assis
Hometown: Campina Grande, Brazil
Medical School: Federal University of Paraiba
Clinical Interest: Electrophysiology
Research Interests: Cardiac neuromodulation, ventricular arrhythmias, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), cardiac implantable devices, innovative technologies, esophageal protection -
Dominik Beer
Hometown: Linz, Austria
Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Clinical Interest: Catheter ablation, cardiac device therapy, and medical education
Research Interests: Conduction system pacing
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Usama Daimee
Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, MI
Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Clinical Interest: Arrhythmias, catheter ablation, cardiac implantable devices
Research Interests: Clinical outcomes associated with catheter ablation procedures and cardiac implantable devices; prospective registries and clinical trials -
Richard Jones II
Chief Fellow
Hometown: Goldsboro, NC
Medical School: Florida State University
Clinical Interest: Electrophysiology
Research Interests: Arrhythmia prevention and treatment
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Weijia Wang
Hometown: Nanjing, China
Medical School: Zhejiang University, School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Cardiac electrophysiology, general cardiology
Research Interests: Epidemiology, inherited heart disease, atrial fibrillation -
Eunice Yang
Hometown: St. Paul, Minnesota
Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Electrophysiology and advanced imaging
Research Interests: The application of advanced imaging in interventions within electrophysiology. Myocardial fibrosis and arrhythmogenesis.
Advanced Heart Failure Fellows
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Miguel Pinilla Vera
Hometown: Colombia, South America
Medical School: Javeriana University School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Cardiovascular disease
Research Interests: Cardiomyocyte biology in heart failure and cardiac regeneration
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Kristin Stawiarski
Hometown: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Medical School: Saba University School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Heart failure biomarkers, left ventricular assist devices
Research Interests: Heart failure biomarkers, left ventricular assist devices
Advanced Echocardiography and Imaging Fellows
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Anum Minhas, M.D., M.H.S.
Chief Fellow
Hometown: Memphis, TN
Medical School: Duke University
Clinical Interest: Non-invasive cardiovascular imaging, general cardiology
Research Interests: CT, stress cardiomyopathy, preoperative medicine
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Gabriel Shaya
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Medical School: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Preventive cardiology, cardiovascular imaging
Research Interest: Cardiovascular epidemiology, cardiovascular risk assessment
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Ethan Tumarkin
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Medical School: University of Toronto
Clinical Interest: Heart Failure, valvular heart disease
Research Interests: Polymer material integration into biological and non-biological tissues, anti-thrombotic and anti-microbial surfaces.
T32 Fellow
Edwin Yoo
Hometown: Millbrae, CaliforniaMedical School: Temple (MD), UPenn (PhD)
Clinical Interests: HFpEF, Pulmonary Hypertension, RV Failure, Preventative Cardiology
Research Interests: Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Biomarkers, Proteomics, Epigenetics

Cardiovascular Disease Fellows
Year 1
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Xuan Ding
Hometown: Houston, TX
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Interest: Cardiovascular imaging
Research Interests: Ultrasound imaging, acoustics, technology development -
Richard Ferraro
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medicine
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Erin Goerlich
Hometown: San Antonio, TX
Medical School: University of Texas at Houston, McGovern Medical School
Clinical Interest: Cardiovascular imaging, coronary artery disease
Research Interests: Noninvasive imaging, novel echocardiographic techniques, endothelial dysfunction -
Joseph Goldenberg
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Clinical Interest: Advanced heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, cardiovascular disease prevention
Research Interests: Myocardial recovery in heart failure, interactions between myocardial and systemic metabolism, obesity and cardiovascular disease, pulmonary hypertension -
Alan Jacobsen
Hometown: Galway, Ireland
Medical School: National University of Ireland, Galway
Clinical Interest: Cardiovascular disease
Research Interests: Preventive Cardiology -
Maeve Jones-O’connor
Hometown: Dublin, Ireland
Medical School: University College Dublin, Ireland
Clinical Interest: Cardiac critical care
Research Interests: Prevention, digital health -
Chang Kim
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea ; San Diego, CA
Medical School: State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Clinical Interest: General cardiology, prevention, cardiac imaging
Research Interests: Big data, risk modelling, machine learning/artificial intelligence -
Minhal Makshood
Hometown: Albany, NY
Medical School: Albany Medical College
Clinical Interest: Prevention and Heart failure
Research Interests: Understanding the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease in South Asians -
Nestor Vasquez
Hometown: Lima, Peru
Medical School: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru)
Clinical Interest: Preventive cardiology, cardiovascular imaging, critical care
Research Interests: Lipoprotein (a), lipids, cardiovascular disease in Hispanics/Latinos
Year 2
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Rick Carrick
Hometown: Wakefield, MA
Medical School: University of Vermont College of Medicine
Clinical Interests: Critical Care, Electrophysiology
Research Interests: Computational modeling and simulation in electrophysiology
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Keva Garg
Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Clinical Interests: Preventative Cardiology
Research Interests: HIV related cardiac disease
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Arune Gulati
Hometown: Kingston, NY
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Clinical Interests: Heart Failure, LVAD, RV Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension
Research Interests: RHF After LVAD
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Esra Gucuk Ipek
Hometown: Ankara, Turkey
Medical School: Gazi University School of Medicine
Clinical Interests: Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Research Interests: Atrial remodeling using multimodality imaging and associations with outcome
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Jana Lovell
Hometown: Lutherville, MD
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Clinical Interests: Advanced Heart Failure
Research Interests: Translational research, heart failure, immunology
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Mariam Meddeb
Hometown: Tunis, Tunisia; Strasborug, France
Medical School: University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Clinical Interests: Cardiac critical care, heart failure
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of decompensated heart failure, novel therapeutic approaches for the acutely failing heart, gene editing
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Martin Tibuakuu
Hometown: Jirapa, Ghana
Medical School: Université d'Alger (Algiers, Algeria)
Clinical Interests: Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Interventional Cardiology
Research Interests: Preventive cardiology
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Alison Wand
Hometown: Wallingford, PA
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Clinical Interests: Heart Failure, Cardiac Imaging
Research Interests: Cardiac sarcoidosis, inflammatory cardiomyopathies
Year 3
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Renato Quispe Ayala, M.D.
Hometown: Lima, Peru
Medical School: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru)
Clinical Interest: General Cardiology, Prevention, Heart Failure
Research Interest: Prevention, lipids, risk modeling, big-data, machine learning/artificial intelligence, genomics
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Ilton Cubero Salazar
Hometown: Bluffton, South Carolina
Medical School: Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Heart Failure
Research Interest: Mechanisms underlying myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure, HFpEF
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Marc Engels
Hometown: Willemstad, Curaçao
Medical School: Leiden University
Clinical Interest: Electrophysiology
Research Interest: Atrial fibrillation, sudden cardiac death
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Paul Scheel
Hometown: Ellicott City, MD
Medical School: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Heart failure, transplant, critical care cardiology
Research Interest: Genetic cardiomyopathies, durable mechanical support
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Nick Smith
Hometown: Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Clinical Interest: Cardiology critical care
Research Interest: Cardiogenic shock, Emergency Management Simulation in Medical Education
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Rachit (Rick) Vakil
Hometown: Manahawkin, NJ
Medical School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Clinical Interest: Electrophysiology, heart failure
Research Interest: Obesity related cardiovascular comorbidities, prevention, epidemiology
Year 4
Nino Isakadze, M.D.
Hometown: Tbilisi, GeorgiaMedical School: David Tvildiani Medical University
Clinical Interest: General Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Research Interest: Atrial Fibrillation, Medical Innovation, M Health
