Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellows

Dr. Rahul Ahuja was born in Long Beach, CA, and raised in Fremont, CA. He earned a BA in Neuroscience from Boston University and a medical degree from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem, NY. He completed his internal medicine residency at Alameda Health System’s Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, followed by a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at The Queen’s Medical Center/University of Hawai‘i in Honolulu, HI. He is interested in a career as a clinician-educator and is passionate about providing high-quality care to vulnerable and marginalized patient populations. His prior research has focused on implementing care process models in the emergency department to enhance the management and disposition of patients presenting with atrial fibrillation. Outside of work, he enjoys listening to records, swimming, and occasionally indulging in a maple donut.

Dr. Fazal was born in Pakistan and grew up in Dubai. He attended college at McGill University where he studied anatomy and cell biology. He completed his MS and MD from Boston University School of Medicine, graduating AOA and Magna Cum Laude. Fazal completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford, where he studied the arrhythmia burden of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients using cardiac holter monitors and worked on using AI to predict arrhythmias in patients undergoing tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapies. As a fellow, he hopes to continue his work at the intersection of cardio-oncology and electrophysiology and pursue a career in academic cardiology. Outside of work, he is passionate about soccer, hiking, and cooking.  

Dr. Tasmeen Hussain grew up in Columbia, Missouri and earned a B.S. with honors in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Johns Hopkins University. She then attended Northwestern University and completed both her MD/MPH degrees as well as Internal Medicine residency there. Her research goals revolve around the study of tech-based behavioral interventions to improve cardiovascular health on a large scale. Her previous work includes research on smartphone apps for chronic disease management in pregnancy with Dr. Lynn Yee, motivational interviewing techniques to improve diet with Dr. Neil Stone and cardiovascular disease risk in liver transplant patients with Drs. Donald Lloyd-Jones and Lisa Van Wagner. Clinically, Dr. Hussain hopes to build a career in preventive cardiology and has a particular passion for the care of Spanish-speaking patients and communities.   

Yaanik grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and studied biomedical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to Atlanta to attend medical school at Emory University. He completed his internal medicine training at UCSF, where he served as Chief Resident. He completed his Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship at Stanford, where he served as Chief Fellow. He is broadly interested in clinical outcomes research, and he is passionate about teaching. He enjoys all things food & wine, philosophy, playing guitar.

Dr. Zaniar Ghazizadeh completed his Internal Medicine training at Yale New Haven Hospital/Yale School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and spent a few years as a post-doctoral fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital before his residency. His research interest lies in the development of in vitro and in vivo platforms for studying heart regeneration and precision medicine. Dr. Ghazizadeh’s work is focused on identifying the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias using several experimental systems ranging from genetically engineered animal models to human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiac cell types. His ultimate goal as a clinician-scientist is to utilize this framework for drug discovery and identifying new therapeutic strategies that can prevent or reverse specific arrhythmias.

Dr. Shah is originally from Los Angeles, CA and completed his Bachelors degree in Chemistry at Northwestern University. He then obtained a Masters degree at Loyola University Chicago and attended medical school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where his research interests focused on stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, the use of echocardiography and global longitudinal strain in predicting progression of cardiac disease, and arrhythmias in adult congenital heart disease. He has given multiple oral presentations at national cardiology meetings and his work is published in the International Journal of Cardiology, European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging, and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology amongst others. In his free time, he enjoys running, cooking, hiking with his family and two beagles, and watching Disney movies with his two year old daughter.