Meet Our Fellows

First-Year Fellows

Garrett Bethel, M.D.

Medical School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Residency: Duke University
Career Interests: Peripheral Artery Disease

Paige Della-Penna, M.D.

Medical School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Quality Improvement, Medical Education

Mark Edwards, M.D.

Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tuscon
Residency: University of Michigan
Career Interests: Heart Failure, Quality Improvement

Geyner (Andrés) Gaona, M.D., M.B.A.

Medical School: UT Health Science Center at Houston
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Career Interests: Electrophysiology

Faria Khimani, M.D.

Medical School: Texas Christian University
Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Career Interests: Preventive Cardiology

Devin Mantini, M.D.

Medical School: University of Southern California
Residency: New York Presbyterian-Columbia University
Career Interests: Heart Failure, Critical Care Cardiology

Lisandro Maya-Ramos, M.D., Ph.D

PSTP

Medical School: UC San Francisco
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Physician-Scientist

Danh Nguyen, M.D., M.S.

Medical School: UT Southwestern
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Preventive Cardiology

Syed Kazim Rizvi, M.D.

Medical School: UT Southwestern
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Heart Failure, Health Equity

Michael Rosamilia, M.D., M.S.

Medical School: Duke University
Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Career Interests: Heart Failure, Congenital Heart Disease

Best Uchehara, M.D., M.B.A.

Medical School: Duke University
Residency: Duke University
Career Interests: Advanced Imaging, Quality Improvement

Second-Year Fellows

Zainali Chunawala, M.D.

Medical School: Seth G.S. Medical College
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Heart Failure

Maria Hernandez, M.D.

Medical School: University of Texas Health Science Center
Residency: Northwestern University
Career Interests: Academic Cardiology, Health Equity

Julie Joeseph, M.D.

Medical School: UT Southwestern
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Medical Education

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

Scholarly Fellows

Jeff Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

Medical School: University of Virginia
Residency: Emory University
Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure

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: UT 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

Joyce Ngouchet Nouhossi, M.D.

Medical School: Loyola University
Residency: University of Chicago
Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Global Health

Nga Nguyen, M.D.

Chief Fellow

Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Preventative Cardiology, Women's Cardiovascular Health

Keval Patel, M.D., Ph.D.

Research Track

Medical School: Washington University in St. Louis
Residency: Johns Hopkins University
Career Interests: Aerospace Medicine, Exercise Physiology, Sports Cardiology, Cardiac Critical Care

Balakrishnan Pillai, M.D.

Chief Fellow

Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
Residency: Stanford University
Career Interests: Critical Care Cardiology, Structural Heart Disease, Cardiac Imaging

Muhammad Shariq Usman, M.D.

Research Track, PSTP

Medical School: Dow University of Health Sciences
Residency: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Cardiometabolic Disease

Maya Weismann, M.D.

Research Track

Medical School: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Residency: Rabin Medical Center
Career Interests: Advanced Cardiac Imaging

Benjamin Yang, M.D.

Medical School: Stony Brook University
Residency: UC San Diego
Career Interests: Cardio-Oncology, Medical Education

Advanced Training Fellows

Christian Akem Dimala, M.D.

Interventional Cardiology

Medical School: University of Buea Faculty of Health Sciences, Cameroon
Residency: Drexel University Collete of Medicine

Mohammad Alarfaj, M.D.

Echocardiography

Medical School: UCLA
Residency: UT Southwestern
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, Kansas University Medical Center; Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology, Baylor University Medical Center
Career Interests: Cardiomyopathy and Multimodality Cardiac Imaging

Ahmed Bakhit, M.D.

Structural Heart Disease

Medical School: University of Gezira
Residency: Interfaith Medical Center

Jamarcus Brider, D.O.

Interventional Cardiology

Medical School: New York Institute of Technology
Residency: Franciscan Health Olympia Fields

Thomas Das, M.D.

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Medical School: UT Southwestern
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, Cleveland Clinic; Interventional Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic
Career Interests: ACHD and Interventional Cardiology

Sovik De Sirkar, M.D.

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Medical School: UT Health Science Center at Houston
Residency: Loyola University Medical Center

Keerthi Gondi, M.D.

Interventional Cardiology

Medical School: University of Missouri-Kansas City
Residency: University of Michigan Health System
Career Interests: Advanced Heart Failure, Heart Transplant, Critical Care Cardiology