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Program Leadership
![Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/doreen_yeh-1 vertical-200px.jpg)
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 >
![Patrick Ellinor, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship/patrick_ellinor-vertical-200.jpg)
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 >
![Danita Y Sanborn, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/danita_sanborn-1-vertical-200.jpg)
Danita Y. Sanborn, MD
Associate Chief of Cardiology
Dr. Sanborn holds board certifications in Cardiovascular Disease from the ABIM as well as... view profile >
![Douglas Drachman, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/doug_drachman-1-vertical-200.jpg)
Douglas E. Drachman, MD
Director of Education, MGH Cardiology Division
Dr. Drachman is an interventional cardiologist and the Director of Education in... view profile >
![Colleen Harrington, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship/colleen_harrington-vertical-200.jpg)
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 >
![Rajeev Malhotra, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship/rajeev_malhotra-vertical-200.jpg)
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 >
First Year Fellows (AY 2024-2025)
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/samantha-cothias-135x145.jpg)
Samantha Cothias, MD
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: New York Medical College
Undergrad: University of Massachusetts Boston
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/zara-latif-135x145.jpg)
Zara Latif, MD
Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
MD: University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
Undergrad: Belmont University, Nashville
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/william-lu-culligan-135x145.jpg)
William Lu-Culligan, MD, PhD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Yale School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Notre Dame
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/mahan-nekoui-135x145.jpg)
Mahan Nekoui, MD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Harvard University
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/chinelo-onyilofor-135x145.jpg)
Chinelo Onyilofor, MD, MPH
Residency: Columbia
MD: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Undergrad: Cornell University
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/aishwarya-raja-135x145.jpg)
Aishwarya Raja, MD
Residency: Columbia
MD: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Undergrad: Columbia University
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/alexander-sakers-135x145.jpg)
Alexander Sakers, MD, PhD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Philadelphia
Undergrad: Haverford College
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/smrithi-sukumar-135x145.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/michael-chilazi.jpg)
Michael Chilazi, MD
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Harvard College
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/ricardo-de-armas.jpg)
Ricardo De Armas, MD, MBA
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Graduate: Harvard Business School
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/esra-gumuser.jpg)
Esra Gumuser, MD, MS
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
Undergrad: Rice University, Houston
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/jennifer-halford.jpg)
Jennifer Halford, MD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/megan-jang.jpg)
Min Young Megan Jang, MD
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Dartmouth College
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/sindhu-prabakaran.jpg)
Sindhu Prabakaran, MD
Residency: Emory
MD: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Georgia
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/karishma-rahman.jpg)
Karishma Rahman, MD, PhD
Residency: Mt. Sinai
MD: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/joseph-shin.jpg)
Joseph Shin, MD, PhD
Residency: Johns Hopkins
MD: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Undergrad: Haverford College
![](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/john-urwin.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/david-feldman.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/rachel-goldberg.jpg)
Rachel Goldberg, MD, MBA
Residency: Johns Hopkins
MD: Washington University School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
![Jingyi Gong, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/jingyi-gong.jpg)
Jingyi Gong, MD
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: Brown University
![Julian Haimovich, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/julian-haimovich.jpg)
Julian Haimovich, MD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Undergrad: Columbia University
![Joyce Han, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/joyce-han.jpg)
Joyce Han, MD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Undergrad: Swarthmore College
![Nelson Hsieh, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/nelson-hsieh.jpg)
Nelson Hsieh, MD, PhD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Case Western Reserve University
Undergrad: University of Pittsburgh
![Adam Johnson, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/adam-johnson.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Sumeet_Khetarpal 150x150.jpg)
Sumeet Khetarpal, MD, PhD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
![Worawan Limpitikul, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Worawan-Limpitkul.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Anna-OKelly.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Ohad-Oren.png)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Sarah-Urbut.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Mostafa Al-Alusi 150x150.jpg)
Mostafa Al-Alusi, MD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: University of California
Undergrad: Yale University
![Olivia Hulme, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Olivia-Hulme.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Sean-Murphy.jpg)
Sean Murphy, MD
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: University College Dublin School of Medicine, Ireland
![Parth Patel, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Parth-Patel.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Avanthi-Raghavan-150x150.jpg)
Avanthi Raghavan, MD, MS
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
MD: Harvard Medical School
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
![Giselle Suero Abreu, MD, PhD, MS](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Giselle-Suero-Abreu.jpg)
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
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Abdul Rasheed Alabi, MD, PhD
Undergrad: Johns Hopkins University
MD: Stanford Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Kemar Brown, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/kemar_brown-1-1-150x150.jpg)
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](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/rachel_frank-1-150x150.jpg)
Rachel Frank, MD
Undergrad: University of Pittsburgh
MD: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Janet Ma, MD](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Janet_Ma-150x150.jpg)
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,](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/cian_mccarthy-1-150x150.jpg)
Cian McCarthy, MD
MD: University College of Cork, Ireland
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Eric Mills, MD](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Eric_Mills-150x150.jpg)
Eric Mills, MD
Undergrad: University of Michigan
MD: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Andrew Oseran, MD, MBA](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/andrew_oseran-1-150x150.jpg)
Andrew Oseran, MD, MBA
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
MD: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Brad Petek, MD](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Brad_Petek%20150x150.jpg)
Brad Petek, MD
Undergrad: University of Washington
MD: University of Washington School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Daniel Pipilas, MD](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/daniel_piplas-1-150x150.jpg)
Daniel Pipilas, MD
Undergrad: Boston University
MD: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
![Jason Sherer, MD](https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/Jason_Sherer-150x150.jpg)
Jason Sherer, MD, MPH
Undergrad: Hampton University, Hampton, VA
MD: Boston University
Residency: Boston University
![Marc Allard-Ratick, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/marc_ratick-1-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/romit_bhattacharya-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/tom_gilliland-1-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/jay_khambhati-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/shaan_khurshid-1-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/emily_lau-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/helge_lehmann-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/njambi_mathenge-1-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/kaavya_paruchuri-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/ani_patel-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/jonathan_salik-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/rachel_venn-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/emily-zern-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/neel_butala-1-1-150x150.jpg)
Neel Butala, MD, MBA
Undergrad: Harvard College
MD/MBA: Yale School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Daniela Crousillat, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/daniela_crousillat-1-150x150.jpg)
Daniela Crousillat, MD
Undergrad: University of Florida
MD: New York University School of Medicine
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
![Akl Fahed, MD, MPH](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/akl_fahed-1-150x150.jpg)
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](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/michael_honiberg-1-150x150.jpg)
Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP
Undergrad: Princeton University
MD: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
![Nino Mihatov, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/nino_mihatov-1-150x150.jpg)
Nino Mihatov, MD
Undergrad: Georgetown University
MD: Duke University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![James Pirruccello, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/james_pirruccello-1-1-150x150.jpg)
James Pirruccello, MD
Undergrad: Yale University
MD: John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
![Anne van Beuningen, MD](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/anne_van_beuningen-1-150x150.jpg)
Anne van Beuningen, MD
Undergrad: Brown University
MD: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Center
Administrative Staff
![Valerie DiStefano](/assets/MGH/images/heart-center/cv-fellowship-headshots/valerie-distafano-thumb.jpg)
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.
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