Heart Failure Fellowship Program Alumni

2020 Heart Failure Fellowship group photo

^{2020 Left to Right: Manreet Kanwar MD, Craig Alpert MD, Matthew Lander MD, Karthik Ranganathan MD, Azam Hadi MD, Christopher Link MD}

2019 Heart Failure Fellowship group photo

^{2019 Left to Right: Srinivas Murali MD, Azam Hadi MD, Saijid Mirza MD, Soidjon Khodjaev MD, Craig Alpert MD, Raymond Benza MD}

2021-2022

Sarumathi Thangavel, MD
Medical School: Maras Medical College, India
Residency: Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Fellowship: Allegheny General Hospital (Cardiology), Pittsburgh, PA
Fellowship: Allegheny General Hospital Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Pittsburgh, PA
Current Employment : Northwell Health, Brightwaters NY

2020-2021

Nael Aldweib, MD
Medical School: University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine, Aleppo, Syria
Residency: Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Fellowship: Allegheny General Hospital (Cardiology), Pittsburgh, PA
Fellowship: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc. (Adult Congenital Heart Disease), Boston, MA
Current Employment: Allegheny Health Network Advanced Heart Failure/Congenital Heart Disease, Pittsburgh, PA

Steven Sorci, DO
Medical School: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, WV
Residency: Northside Hospital & Tampa Bay Heart Institute, St. Petersburg, FL
Fellowship: Northside Hospital & Tampa Bay Heart Institute (Cardiology), St. Petersburg, FL
Current Employment: Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2019-2020

Karthikeyan Ranganathan MD
Medical School: K.A.P. Vishwanathan Government Medical College,India
Residency: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Fellowship: Allegheny General Hospital (Cardiology), Pittsburgh, PA
Current Employment: Allegheny Health Network, Advanced Heart Failure/Interventional Cardiology combined faculty, Pittsburgh, PA

2018-2019

Soidjon Khodjaev, MD
Medical School: Tashkent Medical Academy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Residency: St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Fellowship: Tulane University School of Medicine (Cardiology), New Orleans, LA
Current Employment: Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY

Saijid Mirza, MD
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH
Residency: Rutgers-NJMS University Hospital, Newark, NJ
Fellowship: Rutgers-NJMS University Hospital (Cardiology), Newark, NJ
Current Employment: HCA Florida Heart and Vascular Care, Atlantis, Florida

2017-2018

Talha Meeran, MD
Medical School: Topiwala National Medical College, India
Residency: Johns Hopkins University, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Fellowship: Allegheny General Hospital (Cardiology), Pittsburgh, PA
Current Employment: Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital

2016-2017

Sophia Airhart, MD
Medical School: Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Residency: Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Fellowship: University of Washington (Cardiology), Seattle, WA
Current Employment: Baystate Health/Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA

Hayah Kassis-George, MD
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH
Residency: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Fellowship: Allegheny General Hospital (Cardiology), Pittsburgh, PA
Current Employment: Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA