Division of Cardiology
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Leadership

Name: Rene Alvarez, MD
Positions:
  • Director, Division of Cardiology
  • Director, Jefferson Heart Institute
  • Lubert Family Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
Organization: Department of Medicine

Contact

Name: Division of Cardiology
Department: Department of Medicine

925 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Cardiovascular Disease Fellows

General Cardiovascular Disease Fellows

Amine Al Soueidy, MD

  • Residency: Cooper University Hospital
  • Medical School: Université Saint-Joseph Faculté de Médecine

Brandon Pecchia, MD

  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Medical School: New York Medical College

Derek Schwabe-Warf, MD

  • Residency: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Medical School: Florida State University College of Medicine

Yash Varma, MD

  • Residency: University of North Carolina Hospitals
  • Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Crystal Yan, MD

  • Residency: University of Miami/Jackson Health System
  • Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

First Year-Abington/Jefferson Health Track 

Shujaul Haq, MD

  • Residency: Abington Jefferson Health
  • Medical School: Shifa College of Medicine

Chaitra Janga, MD

  • Residency: Abington Jefferson Health
  • Medical School: Andhra Medical College

First Year-Torresdale/Jefferson Health Track 

Abdalrahman Assaassa, MD

  • Residency: St. Mary Medical Center/Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic
  • Medical School: An-Najah National University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Michael Foster, MD

  • Residency: Cooper University Hospital
  • Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine

Maria Gamero Huaman, MD

  • HF Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Residency: Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Wakefield Campus)
  • Medical School: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru)

Svenja Schneider, MD

  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine

Daniel Underberg, MD

  • Residency: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
  • Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Joshua Wiener, MD

  • Residency: Case Western Reserve University
  • Medical School: Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Second Year-Torresdale/Jefferson Health Track

Muhammad Zubair Khan, MD

  • Residency: St. Mary Medical Center
  • Medical School: Khyber Medical College

Second Year-Abington/Jefferson Health Track 

Naila Ijaz, MD

  • Residency: Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
  • Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Hamza Muhammadzai, MD

  • Residency: Abington Hospital
  • Medical School: Khyber Medical College

Sairamya (Ramya) Bodempudi, MD

  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Medical School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

John Gatti, MD

  • Residency: Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
  • Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine

Nikola Kocovic, MD

  • Residency: Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Khulkar (Kate) Mirzozoda, MD

  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Medical School: University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Emily Newman, MD

  • Residency: George Washington University Hospital
  • Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Third Year-Torresdale/Jefferson Health Track

Muhammad Siddiqui, MD

  • Residency: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Englewood)
  • Medical School: DOW Medical College

Third Year-Abington/Jefferson Health Track

Irfan Ahsan, MD

  • Residency: Abington Hospital
  • Medical School: King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan

Usama Sadiq, MD

  • Residency: Abington Hospital
  • Medical School: Allama Iqbal Medical College

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant

Tirth Patel, MD

  • Residency: Abington Jefferson Health
  • Medical School: B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad India

Interventional Cardiology

Rachel Debenham, MD

  • General Cardiology Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Residency: University of Colorado, Denver
  • Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Brian Osler, MD

  • General Cardiology Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Residency: Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University
  • Medical School: New York Medical College

Electrophysiology

Eitan Frankel, MD

  • General Cardiology Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
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