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Our Faculty Highlights

Discover the U.S. critical care cardiology and CICU faculty. Explore their research, CCC training paths, and personal interests.

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Sarah Gorgis, MD

Cardiac Intensivist at Henry Ford Hospital

Elliott Miller, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Medical Director

Aniket Rali MD, FACC, FCCP

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Joe Palantius MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Faculty

Peter Hanna MD

Critical care/cardiac intensivist

Andrea Elliott, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Critical Care Fellowship Program Director
Cardiology Fellowship Assistant Program Director
Critical Care Cardiology Education Summit Course Director, University of Minnesota

Ran Lee, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, CCLCM of CWRU
Co-Director, Heart Failure Intensive Care Unit
Associate Director, Coronary Intensive Care Unit
Associate Program Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship

Ricky Hansra, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Laura Methvin, MD

Instructor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Connor O'Brien, MD

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Jonathan Ludmir, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Emily Zern, MD

Critical Care Cardiologist

Samuel Brusca, MD

Critical Care Cardiologist

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Miranda Merrill, MD

Critical Care Cardiologist

Yoav Karpenshif, MD

Critical Care Cardiologist

Brandon Wiley, MD

Chief of Cardiology

Adnan Khalif, MD

Critical Care & Interventional Cardiology

Sarma Singam, MD

Critical Care Cardiology

David Berg, MD, MPH

Critical Care Cardiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, TIMI Study Group

Courtney Bennett, DO

Director, Inpatient Practice & Quality, Heart & Vascular Institute
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Carlos Alviar, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Director, Coronary Care Unit, Bellevue Hospital Center

Rosy Thachil, MD

Director, Cardiac ICU
Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Jason Katz, MD, MHS

Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Associate Chief of Cardiology & Director of Inpatient Cardiology, Bellevue Hospital Center
Associate Director, NYU LVAD Program
Program Director, NYU Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program

James Horowitz, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Assistant Chief of Service, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Assistant Program Director, Pulmonary Disease/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Samuel Brusca, MD

Assistant Professor, Medicine

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Shashank Sinha, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology
Director, Cardiovascular Critical Care Research Program
Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Cardiologist
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
Associate Editor, Journal of Cardiac Failure

Massachusetts General Hospital

ddudzinski@partners.org

David Dudzinski, MD, JD

Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-director, Heart Center ICU
Founder and Director, Cardiology Critical Care Fellowship
Associate Editor, New England Journal of Medicine Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Founder and Director, 5C: Concepts in Contemporary Critical Care Cardiology

Mayo Clinic

jentzer.jacob@mayo.edu

Jacob Jentzer, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Ischemic Heart Disease and Critical Care, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

MedStar Washington Hospital Center

alexander.papolos@medstar.net

Alexander I. Papolos, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University
Co-Director, Medical Cardiovascular ICU
Department of Critical Care and Division of Cardiology

Cleveland Clinic

higgina@ccf.org

Andrew Higgins, MD

Associate Director, Cardiac ICU

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

svallabhajosyula@lifespan.org

Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Interventional and Critical Care Cardiology, Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Rhode Island Hospital
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, The Miriam Hospital

UCSF

Christopher.Barnett@ucsf.edu

Christopher Barnett, MD, MPH

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of critical care cardiology
Director, Cardiac intensive care unit service
Director, Inpatient cardiology service

Cleveland Clinic

ramperp@ccf.org

Penelope Rampersad, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Quality Officer, J31 CICU and J32 HFICU, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute

University of Minnesota

jabartos@umn.edu

Jason Bartos, MD, PhD

Section Head - Critical Care Cardiology
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Associate Director, Center for Resuscitation Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology and Critical Care Cardiology