Education

• Bachelor of Science: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (2006)
• PhD: Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY (2013)
• MD: Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY (2013)
• Residency: Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO (2015)
• Fellowship, Cardiovascular Medicine: Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO (2017)
• Fellowship, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology : Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO (2019)
• Post-doctoral Fellow: Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO (2020)

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine
• Echocardiography
• Cardiology

Recognition

2006 – 2013

• 2011 Ida Sophia Scudder, M.D. Award for Excellence in Public Service, a Pioneer in Diversity Award
• Founder and PI, Heart-to-Heart Community Outreach Campaign (myheart2heart.org)
• Cofounder, Weill Cornell Jazz Orchestra, founding member of the Music and Medicine Society
• Cofounder, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights (asylum clinic for torture survivors)
  Executive Director, XO, Weill Cornell Community Clinic (student-run free clinic for the uninsured)

2014

• Gregory J. Gurtner, MD Internal Medicine Residency Research Award

2017

• Washington University / Barnes-Jewish Hospital Dr. Norman Knowlton, Jr.  Incentive for Excellence Award

2019

• Burton E. Sobel Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research

Clinical Interests

• Advanced Heart Failure
• Cardiac Transplantation
• Cardiogenic shock, Mechanical Circulatory Support (LVADs)
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Myocardial Infarction
• Diagnostic heart catheterization
• Endomyocardial biopsy

Research Interests

• Multiscale computational models to understand mechanisms of arrhythmia in cardiomyopathy, heart failure, and inherited arrhythmia syndromes.
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Computational cellular electrophysiology
• 3D ventricular models
• Drug repositioning strategies
• Translational research on cardiac transplant and LVAD patients

Publications

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