Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Faculty
Meet the distinguished faculty of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at the Smidt Heart Institute. The teaching staff consists of the top clinicians and investigators in the field.
Joshua I. Goldhaber, MD
Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program, Professor of Cardiology, Dorothy and E. Phillip Lyon Chair in Laser Research, Associate Director, Coronary Intensive Care Unit, Director, Division of Applied Cell Biology and Physiology, Director, Basic Research in the Heart Institute
Janet Wei, MD, FACC
Associate Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program, Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, Assistant Medical Director, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute
Christine Albert, MD
Lee and Harold Kapelovitz Distinguished Chair in Cardiology, Professor of Cardiology, Chair, Department of Cardiology
Myriam Almeida-Jones, MD
Assistant Professor, Cardiology, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Babak Azarbal, MD
Co-Director, Heart Failure Unit, Smidt Heart Institute, Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women's Heart Health Program, Irwin and Sheila Allen Chair in Women’s Heart Research
Natalie Bello, MD, MPH, FACC
Associate Professor, Cardiology, Director, Hypertension Research
Daniel S. Berman, MD
Professor of Imaging, Chief, Cardiac Imaging, Medical Director, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Medical Director, Quantitative Diagnostic Software Group (QUAD)
Bojan Cercek, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology, Eleanore and Harold Foonberg Chair in Cardiac Intensive Care, Director, Coronary Care Unit, Co-Director, Atherosclerosis Research Center
Tarun Chakravarty, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiologist
David H. Chang, MD
Associate Program Director, Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship Program
Peng-Sheng Chen, MD
Professor, Cardiology
Susan Cheng, MD
Erika J. Glazer Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Health and Population Science, Professor of Cardiology, Director, Cardiovascular Population Sciences; Director, Public Health Research
Sumeet S. Chugh, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Division Chief, Clinical Electrophysiology, Medical Director, Heart Rhythm Center, Director, Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention, Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research
Kuang-Yuh Chyu, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Atherosclerosis Research Center, Associate Director, Coronary Intensive Care Unit
Eugenio Cingolani, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Director, Preclinical Research, Director, Cardiogenetics Program
Robert M. Cole, MD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Associate Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Research and Education
Lawreance S. Czer, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program, Associate Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Co-Medical Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Database
Suhail Dohad
Joseph Ebinger, MD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Director, Clinical Analytics
Ashkan Ehdaie, MD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Associate Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Training Program
Ruchira Garg, MD
Director, Congenital Noninvasive Cardiology
Dael Geft, MD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Associate Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Education Advanced Heart Disease, Cardiologist, Advanced Heart Failure/Mechanical Circulatory Support/Transplant Cardiology
Roberta Gottlieb, MD
Dorothy and E. Phillip Lyon Chair in Molecular Cardiology in honor of Clarence M. Agress, MD, Professor of Cardiology, Director, Molecular Cardiobiology
Aakriti Gupta
Antoine Hage, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Co-Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Director, Solid Organ Transplant Cardiology
Michelle A. Hamilton, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Director, Heart Failure Program
Sean W. Hayes, MD
Professor, Imaging
Erika L Jones, MD, FACC
Kiranbir Josan
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Michelle M. Kittleson, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology, Director, Heart Failure Research, Director, Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship Program
Jon A. Kobashigawa, MD
DSL/Thomas D. Gordon Chair in Heart Transplantation Medicine, Professor of Cardiology, Board of Directors, California Heart Center Foundation, Chief Medical Officer, California Heart Center Foundation
Evan P. Kransdorf, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Associate Director, Heart Transplant Research and Education, Advanced Heart Disease
Debiao Li, PhD
Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in honor of Dr. George Berci, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Imaging
Rajendra Makkar, MD
Stephen R. Corday, MD, Chair in Interventional Cardiology, Professor of Cardiology, Associate Director of Interventional Technologies, Smidt Heart Institute, Cardiology Vice President, Cardiovascular Innovation and Intervention
Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD
Mark Siegel Family Foundation Distinguished Chair, Executive Director of the Smidt Heart Institute, Professor of Cardiology
Jaime D. Moriguchi, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Advanced Heart Disease
Mamoo Nakamura, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiologist
Andriana P. Nikolova, MD, PhD
Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplantation Cardiologist
Teryl K. Nuckols, MD
Vice Chair, Clinical Research, Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
David Ouyang, MD
Instructor of Cardiology, Non-Invasive Cardiologist
Jignesh K. Patel, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology, Director, Cardiac Amyloid Program, Director, Heart Transplant Research, Medical Director, Heart Transplant
Charles Pollick, MD
Associate Professor, Cardiology, Director, Quality Noninvasive (Echo) Laboratory Cardiology
Florian Rader, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Co-Director, Clinic for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Aortopathies, Associate Director of Echo Lab
Archana Ramidreddy
Roopinder K. Sandhu, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Director, Device Clinic
Prediman K. Shah, MD
Shapell and Webb Family Chair in Clinical Cardiology, Professor of Cardiology, Director, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center, Director, Atherosclerosis Prevention and Management Center
Michael M. Shehata, MD
Associate Professor, Director, Interventional Electrophysiology Laboratory, Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Training
Takahiro Shiota, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Associate Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory, Director, Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging
Robert J. Siegel, MD
S. Rexford Kennamer, MD Chair in Cardiac Ultrasound, Professor of Cardiology, Medical Director, Clinic for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Aortopathies
Siddarth Singh, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Assistant Director, Echo Fellowship Training Program
Sabah Skaf, MD
Assistant Professor, Cardiology, Assistant Director, Interventional Echo Cardiology
Steven Tabak
Medical Director, Quality and Physician Outreach
Louise E. Thomson, MD
Rose Tompkins, MD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Associate Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program
Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD
Erika J. Glazer Chair in Women's Heart Health, Professor of Cardiology, Director, Advanced Clinical Biosystems Institute in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Director, Basic Science Research in the Women's Heart Center
Xunzhang Wang, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Director, Complex Ablation Laboratory
Evan Zahn, MD
Director, Congenital Heart Program, Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Raymond Zimmer, MD
Assistant Professor of Cardiology
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