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Program Leadership

Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD

Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD

Program Director, Mass General Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship


Patrick Ellinor, MD

Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD

Executive Director, Heart and Vascular Institute, Mass General Brigham


Danita Y Sanborn, MD

Danita Y. Sanborn, MD

Associate Chief of Cardiology


Douglas Drachman, MD

Douglas E. Drachman, MD

Director of Education, MGH Cardiology Division


Colleen Harrington, MD

Colleen Harrington, MD

Associate Program Director, MGH Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship


Rajeev Malhotra, MD

Rajeev Malhotra, MD

Associate Program Director, Research and scholarly activities, Mass General Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship


First Year Fellows (AY 2024-2025)

Samantha Cothias, MD

Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: New York Medical College
Undergrad: University of Massachusetts Boston


Zara Latif, MD

Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
MD: University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
Undergrad: Belmont University, Nashville


William Lu-Culligan, MD, PhD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Yale School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Notre Dame


Mahan Nekoui, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Harvard University


Chinelo Onyilofor, MD, MPH

Residency: Columbia
MD: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Undergrad: Cornell University


Aishwarya Raja, MD

Residency: Columbia
MD: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Undergrad: Columbia University


Alexander Sakers, MD, PhD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Philadelphia
Undergrad: Haverford College


Smrithi Sukumar, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of California Berkley

Second Year Fellows (AY 2024-2025)
Michael Chilazi, MD

Michael Chilazi, MD

Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Harvard College

Ricardo De Armas, MD, MBA

Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Graduate: Harvard Business School
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Esra Gumuser, MD, MS

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
Undergrad: Rice University, Houston


Jennifer Halford, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Min Young Megan Jang, MD

Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Dartmouth College


Sindhu Prabakaran, MD

Residency: Emory
MD: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Georgia


Karishma Rahman, MD, PhD

Residency: Mt. Sinai
MD: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Joseph Shin, MD, PhD

Residency: Johns Hopkins
MD: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Undergrad: Haverford College


John Urwin, MD, MBA

Residency: BIDMC
MD: Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn
Graduate: Harvard Business School
Undergrad: Yale University

Third Year Fellows (AY 2024-2025)
David Feldman, MD, MPH

David Feldman, MD, MPH

Residency: Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Residency Program
MD: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Undergrad: Cornell University



Rachel Goldberg, MD, MBA

Rachel Goldberg, MD, MBA

Residency: Johns Hopkins
MD: Washington University School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania


Jingyi Gong, MD

Jingyi Gong, MD

Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Brown University



Julian Haimovich, MD

Julian Haimovich, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Undergrad: Columbia University



Joyce Han, MD

Joyce Han, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Undergrad: Swarthmore College



Nelson Hsieh, MD, PhD

Nelson Hsieh, MD, PhD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Case Western Reserve University
Undergrad: University of Pittsburgh



Adam Johnson, MD

Adam Johnson, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Weill Cornell Medicine
Undergrad: Johns Hopkins University

Fourth- and Fifth-Year Fellows (AY 2024-2025)
Sumeet Khetarpal, MD, PhD

Sumeet Khetarpal, MD, PhD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania



Worawan Limpitikul, MD, PhD

Worawan Limpitikul, MD, PhD

Undergrad: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
MD: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: University of California San Francisco



Anna O'Kelly, MD, MPhil

Anna O’Kelly, MD, MPhil

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Undergrad: McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada



Ohad-Oren, MD

Ohad Oren, MD

Fellowship: Hematology and Oncology at Mayo Clinic
Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
MD: Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Undergrad: Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Sarah Urbut, MD

Sarah Urbut, MD, PhD

Residency: Yale University
MD: University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences, The Pritzker School of Medicine
Undergrad: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Recent Alumni
Mostafa Al-Alusi, MD

Mostafa Al-Alusi, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: University of California
Undergrad: Yale University



Olivia Hulme, MD

Olivia Hulme, MD

Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital
MD: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Undergrad: Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA



Sean Murphy, MD

Sean Murphy, MD

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD
: University College Dublin School of Medicine, Ireland




Parth Patel, MD

Parth Patel, MD

Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital
MD: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA



Avanthi Raghavan, MD

Avanthi Raghavan, MD, MS

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania



Giselle Suero Abreu, MD, PhD, MS

Giselle Suero Abreu, MD, PhD, MS

Residency: Rutgers University
MD: Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Dominican Republic
Undergrad: New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, New York, NY


Abdul Rasheed Alabi, MD, PhD

Undergrad: Johns Hopkins University
MD: Stanford Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital


Kemar Brown, MD

Kemar Brown, MD

Undergrad: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
MD: Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Residency: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai


Rachel Frank, MD

Rachel Frank, MD

Undergrad: University of Pittsburgh
MD: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital

Janet Ma, MD

Janet Ma, MD

Undergrad: Pomona College
MD: University of Michigan Medical School
Residency: University of California, San Diego

Cian McCarthy, MD
MD: University College of Cork,

Cian McCarthy, MD

MD: University College of Cork, Ireland
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital



Eric Mills, MD

Eric Mills, MD

Undergrad: University of Michigan
MD: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital


Andrew Oseran, MD, MBA

Andrew Oseran, MD, MBA

Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
MD: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital

Brad Petek, MD

Brad Petek, MD

Undergrad: University of Washington
MD: University of Washington School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital


Daniel Pipilas, MD

Daniel Pipilas, MD

Undergrad: Boston University
MD: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital


Jason Sherer, MD

Jason Sherer, MD, MPH

Undergrad: Hampton University, Hampton, VA
MD: Boston University
Residency: Boston University


Marc Allard-Ratick, MD

Marc Allard-Ratick, MD

Undergrad: Emory University
MD: Emory University School of Medicine
Residency: Emory University School of Medicine
Where are they now? Mass General Interventional Fellowship

Romit Bhattacharya, MD

Romit Bhattacharya, MD

Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
MD: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Where are they now? Staff Cardiologist at Mass General, Cardiovascular Research Center, clinical research

Thomas Gilliland, MD

Thomas Gilliland, MD

Undergrad: Yale College
MD: Yale School of Medicine
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Where are they now? Mass General Interventional Fellowship

Jay Khambhati, MD

Jay Khambhati, MD

Undergrad: University of Florida
MD: Boston University School of Medicine
Residency: Emory University School of Medicine
Where are they now? Brigham and Women's Interventional/Structural Fellowship

Shaan Khurshid, MD

Shaan Khurshid, MD

Undergrad: Johns Hopkins
MD: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Where are they now? Mass General Elecrophysiology Fellowship

Emily Lau, MD

Emily Lau, MD

Undergrad: Brown University
MD: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Where are they now? Mass General Cardiology, Women's Heart Health Program, clinical research, K08 funded

Helge Lehmann, MD

Helge Lehmann, MD

MD: Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Residency: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Where are they now? University of Michigan Electrophysiology Fellowship


Njambi Mathenge, MD, MPH

Njambi Mathenge, MD, MPH

Undergrad: St. George’s University
MD: St. George’s University School of Medicine
MPH: Rutgers School of Public Health
Residency: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Fellowship: Global Cardiology Fellowship
Where are they now? Mass General Interventional Fellowship

Kaavya Paruchuri, MD

Kaavya Paruchuri, MD

Undergrad: Northwestern University, IL
MD: Case Western University School of Medicine
Residency: Tufts Medical Center
Where are they now? Mass General Cardiology Faculty

Anirruddh Patel, MD

Anirruddh Patel, MD

Undergrad: Washington University
MD: Yale University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Where are they now? Mass General Staff Cardiologist, primary genetics research
 

Jonathan Salik, MD

Jonathan Salik, MD

Undergrad: Amherst College
MD: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Where are they now? Mass General Staff Cardiologist, MS in Education, Cardiology Clinician-Educator

Rachael Venn, MD

Rachael Venn, MD

Undergrad: Brown University
MD: Weill Cornell School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Where are they now? Mass General Electrophysiology Fellowship

Emily Zern, MD

Emily Zern, MD

Undergrad: Vanderbilt University
MD: Vanderbilt University Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Where are they now? Critical Care Cardiologist, Advanced Echocardiography at Providence Portland Medical Center, Oregan

Alumni
Neel Butala, MD, MBA

Neel Butala, MD, MBA

Undergrad: Harvard College
MD/MBA: Yale School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital

Daniela Crousillat, MD

Daniela Crousillat, MD

Undergrad: University of Florida
MD: New York University School of Medicine
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital


Akl Fahed, MD, MPH

Akl Fahed, MD, MPH

Undergrad: American University of Beirut
MD: American University of Beirut
MPH: Harvard School of Public Health
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital

Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP

Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP

Undergrad: Princeton University
MD: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital


Nino Mihatov, MD

Nino Mihatov, MD

Undergrad: Georgetown University
MD: Duke University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital


James Pirruccello, MD

James Pirruccello, MD

Undergrad: Yale University
MD: John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital


Anne van Beuningen, MD

Anne van Beuningen, MD

Undergrad: Brown University
MD: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Center


Administrative Staff

Valerie DiStefano

Valerie DiStefano

Program Manager
Valerie DiStefano received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Merrimack College and is currently the Program Manager for the division. Her professional interests focus on management, healthcare, economics, and law.