Heart Institute Expert Team

Under the leadership of Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, a team of cardiac experts from various specialties collaborate to develop a treatment plan designed specifically for each individual patient.  This interactive approach ensures that every diagnostic and treatment options is considered and that the outcome for the patient is the best possible, given all the factors involved.

Leadership Team

Eduardo Marban MD Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute	C. Noel Bairey Merz MD, FACC Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health
Daniel S. Berman MD. FACC Chief, Cardiac Imaging and Nuclear Cardiology Medical Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program Medical Director, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute	Sumeet S. Chugh MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA Associate Director for Genomic Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Section Chief, Clinical Electrophysiology Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series
Jon Kobashigawa MD Associate Director, Clinical Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Director, Advanced Heart Disease Director, Heart Transplant Program DSL/Thomas D. Gordon Chair in Heart Transplantation Medicine	Prediman K. Shah MD Director, Division of Cardiology Director, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center Shapell and Webb Family Chair in Clinical Cardiology Professor, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series
Alfredo Trento MD FACS Director, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Estelle, Abe and Marjorie Sanders Chair in Cardiac Surgery	Ronald Victor MD Director, Cedars-Sinai Center for Hypertension Associate Director, Clinical Research, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Burns and Allen Chair in Cardiology Research

Cardiology Team

C. Noel Bairey Merz MD, FACC Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health	Howard N. Allen MD Cardiology
Babak Azarbal MD, FACC, FSCAI Associate Program Director, Post-Graduate Education in Interventional Cardiology	Arash Bereliani MD, FACC Cardiology
Jeffrey F. Caren MD Cardiology	Bojan Cercek MD, PhD Director, Coronary Care Units Co-Director, Atherosclerosis Research Center Eleanore and Harold Foonberg Chair in Cardiac Intensive Care
David H. Chang MD Cardiology	Yzhar Charuzi MD, FACC Cardiology
Sumeet S. Chugh MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA Associate Director for Genomic Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Section Chief, Clinical Electrophysiology Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series	Eugenio Cingolani MD Director, Cardiogenetics-Familial Arrhythmia Clinic Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Lawrence Czer MD, FACC, FACP Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program Co-Medical Director, Cardiothoracic Database	Yaron Elad MD, FACC Cardiology
Shervin Eshaghian MD Cardiology	John D. Friedman MD Chief, Outpatient Cardiac Imaging
Ruchira Garg MD, FACC, FASE Director, Congenital Non-Invasive Cardiology	Joshua I. Goldhaber MD Associate Director, Coronary Intensive Care Unit Director, Basic Research Programs, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Dorothy and E. Phillip Lyon Chair in Laser Research
Jeffrey S. Goodman MD, FACC Cardiology	Swaminatha V. Gurudevan MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT Cardiology
Antoine (Alhajje) Hage MD Director, Solid Organ Transplant Cardiology	Michele Hamilton MD Director, Heart Failure Program
John G. Harold MD Cardiology	Jeffrey S. Helfenstein MD, FACC Cardiology
Saibal Kar MD Director, Cardiovascular Intervention Center Research	Ronald P. Karlsberg MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCCT, FACP Cardiology
Sanjay Kaul MD, FAHA Associate Director, Clinical Research, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Director, Vascular Physiology and Thrombosis Research Laboratory at the Burns and Allen Research Institute	Ilan Kedan MD Cardiology
Walter F. Kerwin MD Cardiology	Ali Khoynezhad MD, PhD, FACS, FACC Director, Thoracic Aortic Surgery Associate Professor, Surgery
Michelle Maya Kittleson MD Director, Post Graduate Medical Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation	Norman E. Lepor MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI Cardiology
Jon Kobashigawa MD Associate Director, Clinical Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Director, Advanced Heart Disease Director, Heart Transplant Program DSL/Thomas D. Gordon Chair in Heart Transplantation Medicine	Hooman Madyoon MD FACP FACC Cardiology
Raj Makkar MD Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory	Eduardo Marban MD Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Puja K. Mehta MD, FACC Co-Director, Cardio-Oncology Program Director, Non-Invasive Vascular Function Research Lab Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center	Jaime Moriguchi MD Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program
Jignesh Patel MD, PhD Co-Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program	Jay N. Schapira MD Cardiology
Prediman K. Shah MD Director, Division of Cardiology Director, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center Shapell and Webb Family Chair in Clinical Cardiology Professor, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series	Madan Sharma MD, FACC, FSCAI Cardiology
Michael Shehata MD, FACC Director, Pacemaker and Defibrillator Clinic Associate Program Director, Fellowship Training in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology	Takahiro Shiota MD Associate Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory
Chrisandra Shufelt MD MS NCMP Associate Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center Director, Women's Hormone and Menopause Program	Robert Siegel MD Director, Cardiac Non-Invasive Laboratory Rexford S. Kennamer, MD Chair in Cardiac Ultrasound
Charles D. Swerdlow MD Cardiology	Louise E. J. Thomson MBChB Cardiac Imaging and Nuclear Medicine
Mark K. Urman MD, FACC, FASE, FAHA Cardiology	Ronald Victor MD Director, Cedars-Sinai Center for Hypertension Associate Director, Clinical Research, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Burns and Allen Chair in Cardiology Research
Olga Voroshilovsky MD Cardiology	Xunzhang Wang MD Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory and Complex Arrhythmia Service, Division of Cardiology
Evan Michael Zahn MD Director, Congenital Heart Program

• Kirk Y. Chang MD
  Cardiology
  
• Ramprasad Dandillaya MD, FACC, FCCP
  Cardiology
  
• Shaun Daneshrad MD, FACC
  Cardiology
  
• Robert M. Davidson MD
  Cardiology
  
• J. Kevin Drury MD
  Cardiology
  
• Ivor L. Geft MD, FACC
  Cardiology
  
• Sheri Koplik MD
  Cardiology
  
• Bruce A. Samuels MD
  Cardiology
  

Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplant Team

Alfredo Trento MD FACS Director, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Estelle, Abe and Marjorie Sanders Chair in Cardiac Surgery	Francisco A. Arabia MD Surgical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program
David H. Chang MD Cardiology	Wen Cheng MD Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Surgical Director, Lung Transplant Program
Lawrence Czer MD, FACC, FACP Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program Co-Medical Director, Cardiothoracic Database	Fardad Esmailian MD Surgical Director, Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Program
Antoine (Alhajje) Hage MD Director, Solid Organ Transplant Cardiology	Michele Hamilton MD Director, Heart Failure Program
Robert M. Kass MD Surgical Director, Heart Transplant Program	Ali Khoynezhad MD, PhD, FACS, FACC Director, Thoracic Aortic Surgery Associate Professor, Surgery
Michelle Maya Kittleson MD Director, Post Graduate Medical Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation	Andrew S. Klein MD, FACS, MBA Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine
Jaime Moriguchi MD Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program	Jignesh Patel MD, PhD Co-Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program
Danny Ramzy MD, PhD, FRCSC Cardiothoracic Surgery	Aamir Shah MD, FACS Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Cardiac Imaging Team

Daniel S. Berman MD. FACC Chief, Cardiac Imaging and Nuclear Cardiology Medical Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program Medical Director, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute	John D. Friedman MD Chief, Outpatient Cardiac Imaging
Louise E. J. Thomson MBChB Cardiac Imaging and Nuclear Medicine

Emeritus*

James Forrester MD George Burns and Gracie Allen Professor of Cardiovascular Research	Robert Kraus MD Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catherterization Laboratory
Frank Litvak MD Cardiology

• Neal L. Eigler MD
  Cardiology
  

Research Participant**

Kuang-Yuh Chyu MD, PhD Cardiology

• Arshia Noori, MD, Cardiology

Other Participating Team Members

• Satinder Bhatia, MD, Cardiology
• Selvyn Bleifer, MD, Cardiology*
• Neil Buchbinder, MD, Cardiology
• Michael L. Chaikin, MD, Cardiology
• Nicola D'Attellis, MD, Cardiac Imaging
• Suhail Dohad, MD, Cardiology
• Donna M. Gallik, MD, Cardiology
• Debra Judelson, MD, Cardiology
• Sheila Kar, MD, Cardiology
• Harold Karpman, MD, Cardiology
• David Kattan, MD, Cardiology
• Mehran Khorsandi, MD, Cardiology
• Asher Kimchi, MD, Cardiology
• Phillip Levine, MD, Cardiology
• William Mandel, MD, Cardiology
• Robert Rose, MD, Cardiology
• Tourage Soleimani, MD, Cardiology
• Herbert Stein, MD, Cardiology
• Steven Tabak, MD, Cardiology
• Payam Yashar, MD, Cardiology

* Emeritus

** Research Participant (indicates physicians who demonstrate significant interest in research and who typically do not see patients in a clinical setting.)

*** Candidate Participant (indicates physicians who have met candidate level participation and who are in the process of fulfilling the requirements to becomes a full participant in the center.)