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Division of Cardiology

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Leadership

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

Contact

Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine

925 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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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