Lab Members

Kwan performs research in clinical and translational multimodality cardiac imaging, with a focus in cardiac MRI and coronary CT. He attended the University of Washington School of Medicine, with a fellowship year at the National Institutes of Health, and completed his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  

Waseem obtained his MD and completed his internal medicine residency at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He completed his cardiology fellowship at the University of Calgary in Alberta. Waseem has an interest in the application of multi-modal imaging in complex cardiovascular disease and the use of artificial intelligence to guide risk prediction and image optimization.

Satoshi received his MD from Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan. He completed his internal medicine residency and general cardiology fellowship at Jikei University Hospital and Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, followed by completing his doctoral degree at Jikei University.
He joined Cedars-Sinai to further develop his clinical and scientific experience in multimodality cardiovascular imaging.

Jiryes earned his MD from the Technion's Faculty of Medicine and an MPH from Tel Aviv University. He completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at the Rambam Healthcare Campus, where he served as a older person physician. His work focuses on cardiac imaging, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies and cardiovascular epidemiology. He is a postdoctoral scientist at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai.

Maayan earned her MD from Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She completed her internal medicine residency and served as Chief Resident at Sheba Medical Center before completing her cardiology residency at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. She is currently pursuing advanced clinical and research training in multimodality cardiac imaging at Cedars-Sinai.

Amudha earned her medical degree from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in India and completed postdoctoral training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She completed residencies in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at leading U.S. institutions. Her interests focus on cardiovascular imaging, ischemic heart disease and sex-specific cardiovascular risk.

Monica started her cardiac imaging career as an echo sonographer. She then received her MD at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. She completed her internal medicine residency at Medical University of South Carolina and her general cardiology fellowship at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. She is pursuing an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship at Cedars-Sinai to gain expertise in multimodality cardiac imaging.

Tomasino received her MD from the University of El Salvador School of Medicine. She started as a clinical research associate before promoting to a postdoctoral scientist, working closely with the Dey Lab. At Cedars-Sinai, she implements AutoPlaque, an AI-enabled software which characterizes plaque from coronary CT angiography images.

Han earned his MD from Yeungnam University College of Medicine, South Korea, and his fellowship at the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging at Weill Cornell Medicine. After training, he was an assistant clinical research professor at Yonsei Cardiovascular Center. Han is currently an IM Resident at Cedars-Sinai and his goal is to become a physician-scientist.

Park earned her psychology degree from UCSD and her master of public health in global health from Liberty University. Previously, Park was the lead coordinator of clinical trials that lead to the FDA approval of Otiprio®. She has also participated/led worldwide mission trips, focusing on children’s programs/health promotion.

Timilehin Asebiomo earned her bachelor of science in Physiological Sciences from UCLA. She has contributed to quality improvement research focused on enhancing patient communication and healthcare delivery, while remaining active in community-centered initiatives. She aspires to become an MD and bridge clinical practice and research to develop innovative approaches that improve patient care.

Hyun received his education and clinical training from Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Technology. Upon graduation, Hyun was a staff and research technologist at Cedars-Sinai, then promoted to a lead technologist, responsible for supervising technical activities at Tower Nuclear/Cardiac and Vascular Lab.  

Manral earned his masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He specializes in machine-learning, deep-learning and data-mining technologies and is currently working on the applications of deep learning for plaque segmentation using CTA images. Prior to Cedars-Sinai, Nipun worked as a systems engineer in Germany and India.