Graduates

Meet the past classes of graduates from the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Training Program at the Smidt Heart Institute and see where they are now.

  • Josiah Brown, MD, Interventional Cardiology Fellow, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Lauren Lee, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Adventist Health Portland - NW Regional Heart & Vascular, Portland, Oregon
  • Jessica Mao, MD, T32 Research Fellow, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Paul Marano, MD, Critical Care Medicine Fellow, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Nathan Stein, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, California
  • Natasha Cuk, MD, Electrophysiology Fellow, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Derek Leong, MD, Interventional Fellow, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
  • Shilpa Sharma, MD, Interventional Cardiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Orange County, Irvine, California
  • Lily Stern, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group and Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Stephanie Wu, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Cardiology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
  • Kay-Won Chang, MD, Noninvasive Cardiologist, Cardiovascular Disease, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Fremont, California
  • Jae Hyung Cho, MD, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Neal Yuan, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California
  • Ronit Zadikany, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group and Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Lillian Benck, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, NorthShore University Health Systems, Evanston, Illinois
  • Christopher Brown, MD, Junior Faculty, Peripheral and Structural Fellowship, Scripps, San Diego, California
  • Elizabeth Held, MD, Attending Clinical Electrophysiologist, Inova Health System, Fairfax, Virginia
  • Alan Kwan, MD, Clinical Instructor, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California
  • Jeffrey Tyler, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Interventional and Structural Cardiology, Orange County Heart Institute, Orange, California
  • Ameera Ahmed, MD, Attending Cardiologist, Interventional/Structural Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills, Woodland Hills, CA
  • Stephanie Cantu, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Attending Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Akshar Patel, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Interventional Cardiologist, Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute, Atlanta, Georgia 
  • Odayme Quesada, MD,  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Women’s Heart Center, The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Aaron Yung, MD, Interventional/Structural Cardiologist, San Diego, California

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