Cardiovascular Research Program Directors | The Texas Heart Institute®

Each of the Center’s Research departments include program directors that guide and manage our ongoing basic and clinical research efforts.

Research Administration

Jennifer Chambers

Quashanique Mitchell, MHA

Dinah C. Leslie

Program Directors

L. Maximilian Buja, MD

Chu-Huang (Mendel) Chen, MD, PhD

Jie (Jay) Cheng, MD, PhD

Stephanie Coulter, MD, FACC, FASE

Richard A. F. Dixon, PhD

R. David Fish, MD

O.H. Frazier, MD

Camila Hochman Mendez, MSc, PhD

James F. Martin, MD, PhD

Emerson C. Perin, MD, PhD, FACC

Mehdi Razavi, MD

Peter Vanderslice, PhD

Yaxin Wang, PhD

Darren G. Woodside, PhD

Center for Clinical Research

Sylvia A. Carranza

Jennifer L. Parenti, RN

Gabrielle E. Phillip

Nichole A. Piece, RN, CCRC

Dominique Robertson

Meng-Hsuan Sung, PhD

Stephanie Wagner, MS, RN

Cardiomyocyte Renewal

James F. Martin, MD, PhD

Darren G. Woodside, PhD

Jun Wang, MD, PhD

Yuka Morikawa, PhD

Todd R. Heallen, PhD

Sui Zhang, MD, PhD

Paul G. Swinton

Ann Marie-Pauline Bromley

Elizabeth Straight

Electrophysiology Clinical Research & Innovation

Mehdi Razavi, MD

Payam Safavi-Naeini

Mathews John, MS

Molecular Cardiology Research

Peter Vanderslice, PhD

Ronald J. Biediger, PhD

Omer Akyol, MD, PhD

Frederick A. Meece

Shahrzad Abbasi, MS

Reiko Chamberlin

Innovative Device & Engineering Applications (IDEA)

O.H. Frazier, MD

Yaxin Wang, PhD

Chris Chan, PhD

Asma Farooqui, MBE

Ethan Maddin, MS

Victor E. Tedesco V

Minh Dat (David) Nguyen

Regenerative Medicine Research

Camila Hochman Mendez, MSc, PhD

Ernesto Curty da Costa, MD, PhD

Fernanda Paccola Mesquita, PhD

Logan Butler, MS

Candice Haase, PhD

Kimberly Macellaro

Biorepository & Biospecimen Profiling

Camila Hochman Mendez, MSc, PhD

Patricia da Costa Lopez, PhD

Jazmin Ysaguirre

Center for Preclinical Surgical & Interventional Research

Abdelmotagaly “Abdou” Elgalad, MD, PhD

Angel Moctezuma-Ramirez

Eduardo Cardenas Najera

Center for Heart Valve Disease

R. David Fish, MD

Center for Women's Heart & Vascular Health

Stephanie Coulter, MD, FACC, FASE

Keri Sprung, MBA

Karla Bekardi, MD

Allison Droddy, ACS, RDCS, RT(R), FASE

Lauren Barron, MD

Daniella Concha, MD

Jennifer Cozart, MD

Pakinam Mekki, MD

Joanna E. Molina Razavi, MD

Nirupama Krishnamurthi, MBBS, MPH

Ourania Preventza, MD, MBA, FACS

Priyanka Sen, MD

Abdi Rasekh, MD

Mehdi Razavi, MD

Payam Safavi-Naeini

Stem Cell Center

Emerson C. Perin, MD, PhD, FACC

Gene Editing

Fansen Meng, PhD