University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology people

Program Director, as Listed on the Fellowship Educators Page

Cardiologist, Assistant Professor and Cardiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Program Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology Fellowship

Cardiologist, Professor and Cardiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, cardiogenic shock, invasive hemodynamics in structural heart disease, mechanical assist devices.

Rajko Radovancevic, MD

Associate Program Director

Associate Professor NTR at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Igor Gregoric, MD

Chief and Program Director, Surgical Division, Center for Advanced Heart Failure; Director of Research

Thoracic surgeon, Professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Biswajit Kar, MD

Chief, Medical Division, Center for Advanced Heart Failure

Cardiologist, Chair at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, mechanical assist devices, high-risk coronary interventions, structural heart disease, cardiogenic shock

Barbi Witz

Advanced Care Provider Coordinator

Physician assistant in surgery at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Aamir Abbas, MD

Faculty

Cardiologist, Assistant Professor and Cardiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Pulmonary Hypertension, Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Therapy, Heart Transplantation

Abhigyan Mukherjee, MD

Assistant Professor, McGovern Medical School

Cardiologist, Assistant Professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Ali Azhdarinia, PhD

Faculty

Assistant Professor of Diagnostics + Interventional Imaging at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Radiopharmaceutical Imaging/Therapy

Angelo Nascimbene, MD

Faculty

Cardiologist, Assistant Professor and Interventional Cardiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Anju Bhardwaj, MD

Faculty

Cardiologist, Assistant Professor and Cardiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Ankit Mehra, MD

Assistant Professor and Interventional Cardiologist

Cardiologist, Assistant Professor and Interventional Cardiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Anne Dougherty, MD

Faculty

Cardiologist, Professor and Cardiac Electrophysiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Defibrillation and Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias, Electrophysiology, Pacing

Anthony Estrera, MD

Faculty

Thoracic surgeon, Professor and Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Aortic diseases, Aortic dissections, Cardiothoracic surgery, Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)

Arjun Jogimahanti, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship · Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship

Internist at McGovern Medical School

Bindu Akkanti, MD

Associate Professor and Graham Distinguished Professorship in Pulmonary Medicine

Critical care medicine physician, Associate Professor and Pulmonologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Advanced lung diseases, Interstitial lung disease, Asthma, Pulmonary vascular diseases

Brandy McKelvy, MD

Faculty

Critical care medicine physician, Professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Pulmonary arterial hypertension, Sleep disorders in the adult, General pulmonary diseases, Medical student, resident and fellowship education

Brenda Mai, MD

Faculty

Pathologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Carlos Neira, MD

Faculty

Cardiologist, Assistant Professor and Cardiologist at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Carmen Dessauer, PhD

Faculty

Chair at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Mechanisms of adenylyl cyclase regulation, G protein mediated signal transduction; regulation of adenylyl cyclase and production of cyclic AMP; regulators of G protein signaling (RGS proteins)