Recent Graduates

2020 Graduation Ceremony and Pinning Ceremony

• Aaron L. Bush, MD – Interventional Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute
• Jordan M. Chaisson, MD – Cardiology Associates, Mobile, AL
• Briana T. Costello, MD – Private Practice, Houston, Texas
• George A. Heberton, MD – Electrophysiology, Texas Heart Institute
• Austin A. Howard III, MD Fellow of the Year – Electrophysiology, Texas Heart Institute *
• Kenneth Igbalode, MD  – Attending Physician, University of Washington Valley Medical Center
• Carol Lai, MD – General Cardiologist, Straub Medical Center – Honolulu, HI
• Justin S. Maxfield, MD – Interventional Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute
• Michael A. Millard, MD  – Interventional Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute
• Juan J. Nieves-Rivera, MD – Private Practice, San Juan,  Puerto Rico
• Agam D. Patel, MD – Interventional Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute
• Mark S. Pollet, MD – Baton Rouge Cardiology Center, Baton Rouge, LA
• Alexander Postalian, MD – Private Practice, Houston, Texas
• Priyanka Sen, MD – Private Practice, Houston, Texas

*TAUBER OUTSTANDING FELLOW OF THE YEAR

2019 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• David Aaron Burkland, MD   Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Houston TX
• Briana T. Costello, MD Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program – Texas Heart Institute
• Robert W. Godley II, MD , Community Health Network in Indianapolis, IN
• Brian Greet, MD, Assistant Professor at University of Texas
• Zachary D. Hale, MD,  Electrophysiology Fellowship Program – Texas Heart Institute (FELLOW OF THE YEAR)*
• Kenneth Yemisi Igbalode, MD, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program – Texas Heart Institute
• Benjamin Jenny, MD,  Electrophysiology Fellowship Program – Texas Heart Institute
• Carol Lai, MD, Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program – Texas Heart Institute
• Michael J. McArdle, MD Private practice, Houston, TX
• Dhaval R. Parekh, MD Texas Children’s Hospital/BCM Faculty, Houston, TX
• Vishal Y. Parikh, MD,  Private practice, Rochester, NY
• Anoop M. Shah, MD, Private practice in VA
• John O. Tyler III, MD, Private practice in Houston, TX
• Alexander Postalian Yrausquin, MD , Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program – Texas Heart Institute *

2019 Cardiac Society Fellows Pinning Ceremony

*TAUBER OUTSTANDING FELLOW OF THE YEAR

2018 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• Robert Aertker, MD, Woodlands North Houston Heart Center
• Anju Bhardwaj, MBB
• David Kuten, MD, Woodlands North Houston Heart Center, (Woodlands, TX)
• Carlos Manrique, MD
• James O’Neill, MD
• Wassim Shatila, MD
• Robert Godley, MD, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Texas Heart Institite
• Michael McArdle, MD, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Dhaval Parekh, MD, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Prianka Sen, MD Advanced Heart Failure Fellowship, UTHSC Houston McGovern School
• Anoop Shaw, MD,
  Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Texas Heart Institite
• John Tyler, MD, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Jordan Chaisson, MD Chaisson, MD, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute

2017 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• Bobby Aertker, MD Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Salman Bandeali, MD Interventional Cardiology, Texas Heart and Vascular Specialists, Houston, TX
• David Burkland, MD, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Brett Goodwin, MD  Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Specialists of Southwest Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA
• Salman Gohar, MD Advanced Heart Failure, Scott & White, Temple, TX
• Brian Greet, MD EP Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Ketan Koranna, MD, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Mason City Clinic, Mason City
• David Kuten, MD Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute (FELLOW OF THE YEAR)*
• Mehran Massumi, MD Interventional Cardiology, Kelsey Seybold, Houston, TX Texas Medical Center
• Chalam Mulukutla, MD Cardiovascular Disease, El Paso Cardiology Associates, El Paso, TX
• James O’Neill, MD Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Indranill Basu Ray, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
• Robert Salazar, MD Interventional Cardiology, Texas Cardiology Associates of Houston, Houston, TX
• Wassim Shatila, MD Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Sam Sheth, MD Interventional Cardiology, Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, TX
• Ziad Taimeh, MD Advanced Heart Failure, Texas Heart Institute/Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Houston, TX

2016 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• Salman Bandeali, MD Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute (FELLOW OF THE YEAR)
• Brett Goodwin, MD Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Mehran Massumi, MD Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Chalam Mulukutla, MD Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Robert Salazar, MD Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Samar Sheth, MD Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Fellowship, Texas Heart Institute
• Daisy Nieto, MD Cardiovascular Disease, El Paso Cardiology Associates, El Paso, TX
• Abedelkader Amanfi, MD Interventional Cardiology, Private Practice, Owensborough, KY
• Amir Gahremanpour, MD Interventional Cardiology, Private Practice, Tomball, TX
• John Lee, MD Interventional Cardiology, Private Practice, Dallas, TX
• Scott Greenberg, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Woodlands North Houston Heart Center, The Woodlands, TX
• Cyril Varghese, MD Advanced Heart Failure, Private Practice, Dallas, TX

2015 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• Jorge Escobar, MD Interventional Cardiology, Texas Heart and Vascular Specialists, Houston, TX
• Marlos Fernandes, MD Interventional Cardiology, Memorial Herman Hospital System,Houston, TX
• Mohammad Madjid, MD Interventional Cardiology, Academic, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, TX
• Gary Yawn, MD Interventional Cardiology, Costal Cardiology, PC, Brunswick, GA
• Mark McCauley, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Academic, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
• Joanna Molina Razavi, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Hall-Garcia Cardiology Associates at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Ambar Andrade, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Academic, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
• Leon Cannizzaro, MD Cardiovascular Disease, Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group, Baton Rouge, LA
• Jessica Brown, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

2014 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• Cihan Cevik, MD Interventional Cardiology, Shaw Heart and Vascular Center, Roseburg, OR
• Joggy George, MD Interventional Cardiology, Practice Cardiovascular Care Providers, Inc, Houston, TX
• Steven Joggerst, MD Interventional Cardiology, Cape Cardiology Group, Missouri
• Angelo Nascimbene, MD Interventional Cardiology, Academic, UT Physicians, Houston, TX
• Wilson Lam, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Academic, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Alireza Nazeri, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Academic, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2013 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• Federico Azpurua, MD Interventional Cardiology, Valley Care Clinics Network Heart Care Physicians, Weslaco, TX
• Sreedevi Gondi, MD Interventional Cardiology, Louisville Cardiology Group, Louisville, KY
• Chris Higgins, MD Interventional Cardiology, St. Francis Hospital South, Tulsa, OK
• Mauricio Obon Dent, MD Interventional Cardiology, Hospital CIMA, Costa Rica
• Kumar Satya, MD Interventional Cardiology, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
• Mihail Chelu, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Academic, University of Utah Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT
• Farshad Raissi, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Academic, UTHealth, Houston, TX
• Sandeep Patel, MD Cardiovascular Disease, Parkview Health Center, Fort Wayne, IN
• Nishant Shah, MD Cardiovascular Disease, VAMC, Brown University Alpert School of Medicine, Providence, RI
• Enoch Aguanne, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Texas Tech University Health Center, El Paso, TX
• Jigar Patel, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Private practice, California
• Sinan Sarsam, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Providence Heart Institute, Southfield, MI

2012 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• Brian Cogar, MD Interventional Cardiology, Private practice, Oklahoma City, OK
• Angela Ferguson, MD Interventional Cardiology, Kelsey-Seybold, The Woodlands, TX
• Joseph Horstman, MD Interventional Cardiology, Oklahoma Heart Hospital, Oklahoma City, OK
• Sabrina Stone, MD Interventional Cardiology, Cardiology Consultants of North Texas, Plano TX
• Rohit Kedia, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, The Heart Institute of East Texas, Lufkin, TX
• Stephen May, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Academic, Arrhythmia Associates of South Texas, San Antonio, TX
• Ali Abdul-Jabbar, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
• Jawahar Gazzala, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Private practice, Scottsboro, AL
• German Rossell, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Yuma Cardiology Associates Yuma, AR

2011 Graduation Ceremony Photos

• John Canales, MD Interventional Cardiology, Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
• Ramon Kumar, MD Interventional Cardiology, Trinity Clinic Cardiology, Tyler, TX
• Alden McDonald, MD Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• Alec Weisberg, MD Interventional Cardiology, Midwest Heart & Vascular Specialists, Kansas City, MO
• Robert Mazzei, MD Cardiac Electrophysiology, Columbia Heart, SC
• Mubashir Ahmed, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Midwest Heart Specialists, Rockford, IL
• Kulpreet Barn, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Mercer Bucks Cardiology, Robbinsville, NJ
• William Posligua, MD Heart Failure Fellowship, Dallas Heart & Vascular Consultants, Dallas, TX