Rahul Devathu

MS3 / Department of Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

Talk Title: "PRISM-AF: Predicting Recurrence Integrating Signals and Maps of Atrial Fibrillation"

Mentor: Tina Baykaner

Isha Sanghvi

MS2 / Obstetrics and Gynecology

Talk Title: "Defining the Role of Placental FAAH2 in Preeclampsia, a Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy”

Mentor(s): Jennifer Sequoia, Virginia D. Winn

Kelly Hyles
MS3/Cardiothoracic Surgery

"Health Care Utilization, Cost of Care and Cost Effectiveness of Cardiac Surgery for Veterans within and outside of the Veterans Affair System"

Mentor: Yihan Lin, MD

Brandon Wesley
MS4/Pediatric Cardiology

“Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Connective Tissue Disorders”

Mentor: Seda Tierney, MD

Fikunwa Kolawole
MS1, PhD/Radiology, Mechanical Engineering,  Radiology VA

"Measuring Passive Myocardial Stiffness in Health and in Heart Failure"

Mentors: Daniel Ennis, PhD and Ellen Kuhl, PhD

Peter Nwokoye
MS2/Cardiothoracic Surgery

"Creation of De Novo Vascularized Cardiac Organoids from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"

Mentor: Oscar J. Abilez, MD, PhD

Basil M. Baccouche
MS2 / Cardiothoracic Surgery        

"Spatiotemporal Characterization of Myocardial Regeneration in Neonatal Mouse Models using CODEX Multiplexed Imaging"

Mentor: Y Joseph Woo, MD

Bongeka Zuma
MS5/ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

"County-level Factors Explaining the Reversal of the Hispanic Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Paradox from COVID-19"

Mentor: Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH

Danielle Mullis
MS1 / Cardiothoracic Surgery

"Intramyocardial Therapy to Induce Angiogenesis in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Coronary Heart Disease"

Mentor: Y. Joseph Woo, MD

Brian Yu
MS2 / Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute

"Mechanisms of Autophagy in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy with Human Stem Cells"

Mentor: Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD

Suleman Khan
MS3 / Vascular Surgery

"Vascular1 - Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Develop a Virtual Reality (VR) Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access Training Module"

Mentors: Oliver Aalami, MD; Carla Pugh, MD, PhD; Ronald Dalman, MD; Sharon Zhou; Andrew Ng's Stanford Machine Learning Group

Nicolas Quach
MS2 / Cardiothoracic Surgery

"Engineering a Supra-therapeutic C-X-C Chemokine Receptor Type 4 (CXCR4) Agonist to Prevent Ischemic Heart Failure"

Mentor: William Hiesinger, MD

Ting Hsuan Wu
MS2 / Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

"Single-cell Analysis of Inflammation-induced Pulmonary Hypertension in Bmpr2 Dysfunction"

Mentors: Mark Nicolls, MD and Peter Kao, MD, PhD

Kevin Cyr
MD Candidate 2^nd year

"A Novel Patient- Specific Electrode for Atrial Fibrillation Mapping"

Mentor: Anson Lee, MD

Yuhao (Danny) Huang
MD Candidate 4^th year 

"Rapid detection of intracranial large vessel occlusion and prediction of treatment outcomes using deep convolutional neural networks"

Mentor: Dr. Phillip Yang, MD

Joetsaroop Bagga
MD Candidate, 1st Year

"The role of vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype in coronary artery disease"

Mentor: Tom Quertemous, MD

Angela Zhang
MD PhD Candidate, 1st Year

"Using nano straws to improve the delivery of CRISPR/Cas 9 system to cardiomyocytes"

Mentor: Joseph Wu, MD PhD

Aditya J. Ullal
MD candidate, 2nd year

"Development of a Risk Score for Hospital Readmissions in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation"

Mentor: Mintu Turakhia, MD

Andrew Lee
MD candidate, 3rd year

"Efficacy of Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation for Improving Clinical and Immune Markers of Cardiovascular Health"

Mentor: Patricia K. Nguyen, MD

Charlotte Rajasingh
MD candidate

"Development of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adult Patients Exposed to Methylphenidate"

Labs: Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD and Roham Zamanian, MD