Cardiology 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

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 Escuela 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

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

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