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Program Leadership

Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD

Program Director, Mass General Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship

Dr. DeFaria is the Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Program and... view profile >

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Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD

Interim Chief of Cardiology

Dr. Ellinor is the Interim Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias... view profile >

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Danita Y. Sanborn, MD

Director, Paul Dudley White Clinic & Associate Program Director, MGH Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship

Dr. Sanborn holds board certifications in Cardiovascular Disease from the ABIM as well as... view profile >

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Douglas E. Drachman, MD

Director of Education, MGH Cardiology Division

Dr. Drachman is an interventional cardiologist and the Director of Education in... view profile >

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Colleen Harrington, MD

Associate Program Director, MGH Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship

Dr. Harrington is a faculty member of the Women’s Hearth Health Program and Cardio-Obstetrics Program ... view profile >

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Rajeev Malhotra, MD

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

Dr. Malhotra is a cardiologist in the Heart Center ICU and Cardiovascular Medicine sections... view profile >

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First Year Fellows (AY 2023-2024)

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

Second Year Fellows (AY 2023-2024)

Michael Chilazi, MD

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

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

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

Jingyi Gong, MD

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

Julian Haimovich, MD

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

Joyce Han, MD

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

Nelson Hsieh, MD, PhD

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

Adam Johnson, MD

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

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Third Year Fellows (AY 2023-2024)

Olivia Hulme, MD

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

Worawan Limpitikul, MD, PhD

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

Sean Murphy, MD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fourth Year Fellows (AY 2023-2024)

Mostafa Al-Alusi, MD

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

Sumeet Khetarpal, MD, PhD

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

Avanthi Raghavan, MD, MS

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

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Recent Alumni

Abdul Rasheed Alabi, MD, PhD

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

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

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

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, Ireland
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital

Eric Mills, MD

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

Andrew Oseran, MD, MBA

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

Brad Petek, MD

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

Daniel Pipilas, MD

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

Jason Sherer, MD, MPH

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daniela Crousillat, MD

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

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

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

Nino Mihatov, MD

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

James Pirruccello, MD

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

Anne van Beuningen, MD

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

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Administrative Staff

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.