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Cardiovascular Fellowship Training Program

Current Fellows  |  July 2023 – June 2024

First Year Fellows

Scott Baumgartner, MD

MD, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences – 2020
Residency, UPMC – 2023

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Medha Biswas, MD

MD, New York Medical College – 2020
Residency, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center – 2023

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Arinze Bosah, MD

MD, Ross University School of Medicine – 2019
Residency, Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium – 2023

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Ato Howard, MD

MD, University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine – 2020
Residency, UPMC – 2023

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Ashish Patel, MD

MD, Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine – 2019
Residency, UPMC – 2022

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Carlos Romero, MD

MD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University – 2020
Residency, Temple University Hospital – 2023

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Erin Schikowski, MD

MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry – 2019
Residency, UPMC – 2023

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Bradley Very, MD

MD, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine – 2020
Residency, UPMC – 2023

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Second Year Fellows

Shalini Allam, MD

MD, University of Central Florida, 2018
Residency, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 2021

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Alexis Barnes, MD

MD, University of North Carolina, 2017
Residency, Ohio State University, 2020
Fellowship, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Northwestern University, 2022

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Eleanor Christenson, MD

MD, Washington University, 2018
Residency, Washington University, 2021

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Sebastian Estrada, MD

MD, University of Virginia, 2019
Residency, Duke University, 2022

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Joseph Ibrahim, MD

MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2019
Residency, UPMC, 2022

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Timothy Kim, MD

MD, Weill Cornell, 2019
Residency, UPMC, 2022

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Jacqueline Levene, DO

MD, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, 2018
Residency, Oregon Health & Science University, 2021

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Daniel Sinden, MD, PhD

MD, Duke University, 2019
Residency, Massachusetts General, 2022

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Third Year Fellows

Rahul Chaudhary, MBBS

MBBS, Maulana Azas Medical College, 2012
Residency, Johns Hopkins, 2016

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Javier Farinas, Jr., MD

MD, Chicago Medical School, 2018
Residency, UPMC, 2021

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Kerianne Fullin, MD

MD, University of Wisconsin, 2018
Residency, Mount Sinai Hospital, 2021

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Kathryn Harris, MD

MD, Meharry Medical College, 2018
Residency, University of Maryland, 2021

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Susan Keen, MD

MD, Indiana University, 2016
Residency, University of North Carolina, 2021

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Brent Medoff, MD

MD, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, 2018
Residency, UPMC, 2021

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Corey Rearick, MD

MD, University of Pittsburgh, 2018
Residency, University of Chicago Medical Center, 2021

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Jenna Skowronski, MD

MD, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, 2017
Residency, UPMC, 2020
Chief Resident, UPMC, 2021

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Fourth Year Fellow

Tanmay Gokhale, MD, PhD

MD, Duke University, 2018
Residency, Duke University, 2020

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Advanced Cardiovascular Fellows

Muhammad Talha Ayub, MBBS
Electrophysiology – 2nd year

MBBS, Allama Iqbal Medical College, 2012
Residency, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, 2019
Cardiology Fellowship, Rush University, 2022

Abdullah Zoheb Azhar, MD
Amyloidosis

MD, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University – 2009
Residency, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan Hospital, New York Medical College – 2021

William R. Barrington, MD
Advanced Heart Failure

MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine – 2020
Residency, UPMC – 2023

Michael J. Bashline, MD
Advanced Interventional Cardiology

MD, Temple University, 2016
Residency, UPMC, 2019
Cardiology Fellowship, UPMC, 2022

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Jacob Blackwell, MD
Electrophysiology

MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine – 2017
Residency, University of Virginia Medical Center – 2020
Fellowship, Wake Forest University School of Medicine – 2023

Ann Canterbury, MD
Electrophysiology – 2nd year

MD, University of Toledo, 2016
Residency, UPMC, 2019
Cardiology Fellowship, UPMC, 2022

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Chad Kosanovich, MD
Advanced Cardiac Imaging

MD, Georgetown University, 2017
Residency, UPMC, 2020

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Philip Lavenburg, DO
Advanced Interventional Cardiology

DO, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2015
Residency, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2018
Cardiology Fellowship, Temple University, 2022

Jared Romeo, DO
Interventional Cardiology

DO, University of New England, 2016
Residency, UPMC, 2019

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Henry Zheng, MD
Electrophysiology

MD, Tufts University School of Medicine – 2017
Residency, Baylor College of Medicine – 2020
Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine – 2023

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