Prior AHFTC Fellows

Since its inception, the Stanford fellowship program has trained leaders in the fields of advanced heart failure and transplantation, many of whom have started major programs in the United States and across the world.

Prior graduates of our fellowship program include:

Year Fellows Current Position
2005 Michael Pham, MD Chief of Cardiology, California Pacific Medical Center, California
2006 Francois Haddad, MD Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
  Sean Virani, MD Medical Director, Heart Failure/Transplant Program, University of British Columbia, Canada
2008 Robert Maranda, MD Ottawa Cardiovascular Center
  Nandini Nair, MD Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant/ECMO, Texas Tech Medical Center
2009 Sapna Desai, MD  Cardiologist, Oschner Health, Louisiana
  Jesus Almendral, MD Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure/Mechanical Circulatory Support/Cardiac Transplantation; Jersey Shore Medical Center
2010 Medhi Skhiri, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford
  Marie Claude Parent, MD Cardiologist, Montreal Heart Institute
2011 Brian Clarke, MD Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
  Geoffrey Yoon, MD Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, California
2012 Mahazarin Ginwalla, MD Cardiologist, Mills/Peninsula Hospital, California
  Ellamae Stadnick, MD Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
2013 Margot Davis, MD Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
  Ranjan Ray, MD Cardiologist, California Pacific Medical Center, California
  Matthew Wheeler, MD Assistant Professor, Stanford University
2014 Ajay Srivastava, MD Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Scripps Clinic, San Diego, California
  Amin Yehya, MD Cardiologist, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Virginia
  Hirsch Mehta, MD Cardiologist, San Diego Cardiac Center, California
2015 Christopher Woo, MD Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, California
  Karim Sallam, MD Assistant Professor, Stanford University
  Genevieve Giraldeau, MD Cardiologist, Montreal Heart Institute
2016 Debeleena Dutt, MD Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, Hawaii
  Brian Howard, MD Cardiologist, WellStar Medical Group, Atlanta, Georgia
  Amit Khosla, MD Cardiologist, Director of Heart Failure Services, Surrey Memorial Hospital, British Columbia, Canada
2017 Shirin Zarafshar Jimenez, MD Advanced Heart Failure Transplant Cardiologist, UC Davis Health
  Brandon Varr, MD Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, California
  Ajay Kadakkal, MD Cardiologist, MedStar Washington Hospital, Washington, DC
2018 Robert Miller, MD Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
  Masataka Kawana, MD Instructor, Stanford University
  Abhinav Sharma, MD Assistant Professor, McGill University, Canada
2019 Maxime Tremblay-Gravel, MD Cardiologist, Montreal Heart Institute, Canada
  Peter Czobor, MD Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, California
  Kevin Alexander, MD Assistant Professor, Stanford University
2020 Alexander Sandhu, MD Assistant Professor, Stanford University
  Lee Chang, MD Cardiologist, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
  Harshith Avula, MD Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, California
2021 Justin Parizo, MD Cardiologist, Sharp Health Care, San Diego
  Petra Mamic, MD Instructor, Stanford University
  Calvin Tong, MD Cardiologist, Surrey Memorial Hospital, British Columbia, Canada
2022 Leila Yeh Beach, MD Assistant Director of Heart Failure, SFVA; Clinical Assistant Professor, UCSF
  Stephanie Hsaio, MD Instructor, Stanford University/PAVA
  Daniel Katz, MD Instructor, Stanford University
2023 Joyce Njoroge, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University
  Anubodh "Sunny" Varshney, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University
  Brian Wayda, MD Advanced Heart Failure Transplant Cardiology Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University