Cardiology Fellows
Meet our Fellows
First-Year Fellows

Zainali Chunawala, M.D.
- Medical School: Seth G.S. Medical College
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Heart Failure

Julie Cooper, M.D.
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Medical Education

Maria Hernandez, M.D.
- Medical School: University of Texas Health Science Center
- Residency: Northwestern University
- Career Interests: Academic Cardiology, Health Equity

Katarina Leyba, M.D.
- Medical School: University of New Mexico
- Residency: University of Colorado
- Career Interests: Academic Cardiology

Christopher Mason, M.D.
- Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
- Residency: University of Michigan
- Career Interests: Medical Education, Quality Improvement

Cayla Pichan, M.D.
- Medical School: University of Michigan
- Residency: Duke University
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure

Nancy Song, M.D., M.B.A.
- Medical School: Stanford University
- Residency: Stanford University
- Career Interests: General Cardiology, Electrophysiology, Quality Improvement

Vinayak Subramanian, M.D.
- Medical School: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Adam Ungemach, M.D.
- Medical School: Rowan University
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure

Audrey White, M.D.
- Medical School: Ohio State University
- Residency: Vanderbilt University
- Career Interests: Academic Cardiology

Jeffrey Xia, M.D.
- Medical School: University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio
- Residency: University of California, Los Angeles
- Career Interests: Advanced Cardiac Imaging, Cardio-Oncology
Second-Year Fellows

Leonard Chiu, M.D.
- Medical School: Columbia University
- Residency: Vanderbilt University
- Career Interests: Clinician-Investigator Focused on Spectrum of Heart Failure

Shanice Glasco, M.D.
- Medical School: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Residency: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Career Interests: Prevention and Health Equity

Gustavo Henandez, M.D., M.S.
- Medical School: New York University
- Residency: New York University
- Career Interests: Academic Cardiology

Daniel G. Izundegui, M.D.
- Medical School: Universidad Panamericana Escula de Medicina
- Residency: Boston University
- Career Interests: Academic Cardiology with Focus on Cardiometabolic Disease

Alysha Joseph, M.D.
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Benjamin Nelson M.D., Ph.D.
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Physician-Scientist

Joyce Ngouchet Nouhossi, M.D.
- Medical School: Loyola University
- Residency: University of Chicago
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Global Health

Nga Nguyen, M.D.
- Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Preventative Cardiology, Women's Cardiovascular Health

Balakrishnan Pillai, M.D.
- Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
- Residency: Stanford University
- Career Interests: Critical Care Cardiology, Structural Heart Disease, Cardiac Imaging

Benjamin Yang, M.D.
- Medical School: Stony Brook University
- Residency: University of California, San Diego
- Career Interests: Cardio-Oncology, Medical Education
Scholarly Fellows

Omowunmi Adedeji, M.D.
- Medical School: Rutgers University
- Residency: George Washington University
- Career Interests: Cardiac Imaging, Heart Failure

Jeff Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
- PSTP
- Medical School: University of Virginia
- Residency: Emory University
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure

Emmanuella Egbonim, M.D., M.P.H.
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: Duke University
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant

Melina Giugni, M.D.
- Medical School: Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
- Residency: Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP
- Fellowship: Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP; Cardiology
- Fellowship: Baylor University Medical Center; Advanced Heart Failure
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Christopher Grubb, M.D.
- Medical School: Columbia University
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University
- Career Interests: Critical Care Cardiology

Keerthi Gondi, M.D.
- Medical School: University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Residency: University of Michigan
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant, Critical Care Cardiology

Artrish Jefferson M.D., M.H.S.
- Cardiac Amyloid Grant
- Medical School: Meharry Medical College
- Residency: Johns Hopkins University
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Interventional Cardiology

Ayeeshik Kole, M.D., Ph.D.
- Medical School: Indiana University
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Preventive or Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Imaging

Vivek Koshti, M.D.
Chief Fellow
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Advanced Cardiac Imaging

Lisandro Maya-Ramos, M.D., Ph.D
- PSTP
- Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Physician-Scientist

Danh Nguyen, M.D.
- NIH-T32 Grant
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Preventive Cardiology

Keval Patel, M.D., Ph.D.
- NIH-T32 Grant
- Medical School: Washington University in St. Louis
- Residency: Johns Hopkins University
- Career Interests: Aerospace Medicine, Exercise Physiology, Sports Cardiology, Cardiac Critical Care

Syed Kazim Rizvi, M.D.
- PSTP
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Heart Failure, Health Equity

Alexandra Sykes, M.D.
Chief Fellow
- Medical School: Texas A&M Health Science Center
- Residency: University of California, San Diego
- Career Interests: Preventive Cardiology, Cardio-Obstetrics

Lena Tran, M.D.
- Medical School: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Residency: Vanderbilt University
- Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Critical Care

Muhammad Shariq Usman, M.D.
- PSTP
- Medical School: Dow University of Health Sciences
- Residency: UT Southwestern
- Career Interests: Cardiometabolic Disease

Maya Weismann, M.D.
- Medical School: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Residency: Rabin Medical Center
- Career Interests: Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Advanced Training Fellows

Jesslin Abraham, M.D.
- Hypertension
- Medical School: American University of Antigua
- Residency: Kern Medical-UCLA Harbor
- Career Interests: Interventional Cardiology

Joseph Abraham, M.D.
- Heart Failure
- Medical School: Suez Canal University
- Residency: Unity Health
- Career Interests: Undecided

Garrett Bethel, M.D.
- Vascular Medicine
- Medical School: University of Arkansas
- Residency: Duke University
- Career Interests: Undecided

Sairamya Bodempudi, M.D.
- Interventional
- Medical School: Rutgers University
- Residency: Thomas Jefferson University
- Career Interests: Undecided

Gene Hu, M.D.
- Electrophysiology
- Medical School: UT Southwestern
- Residency: University of California, San Francisco
- Career Interests: Advanced Imaging, Electrophysiology

Jean Kim, M.D.
- Cardio-Oncology
- Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
- Residency: University of Hawai'i
- Career Interests: Cardio-Oncology

Douglas Kyrouac, M.D.
- Electrophysiology
- Medical School: Ohio State University
- Residency: Washington University in St. Louis
- Career Interests: Undecided

Carlos Lynes, M.D.
- Interventional
- Medical School: University of Louisville
- Residency: Vanderbilt University
- Career Interests: Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Imaging

Mason Marcus, M.D.
- Electrophysiology
- Medical School: University of Illinois
- Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Career Interests: Electrophysiology

Jessica Qiu, M.D.
- Electrophysiology
- Medical School: New York University
- Residency: New York University
- Career Interests: Electrophysiology, Women's Health

Brandon Rogers, M.D.
- Heart Failure
- Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine
- Residency: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Career Interests: Undecided

Dantwan Smith, M.D., M.B.A, M.S.
- Structural Interventional
- Medical School: Ross Univeristy
- Residency: Magnolia Regional Health Center
- Career Interests: Structural Heart Disease