Professional Positions

  • Stanford University Medical Center 
  • Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine – Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Stanford University Medical Center 
  • Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Stanford University Medical Center 
  • Resident in Internal Medicine – Pathway of Distinction in Clinical Research/ Quality Improvement

Education and Training 

University of California, San Francisco

  • MD, School of Medicine
  • MD with Distinction in the Clinical and Translational Research Pathway to Discovery
    Certificate Program in Biomedical Research

University of California, Los Angeles 

  • Bachelor of Science, Physiological Science

Research Experience

Stanford University research studies on the following: 

  • Heart transplant evaluation
  • Heart failure
  • Familial Hypercholesterolemia
  • Atrial fibrillation risk factors 
  • Vitamin D overdose, heart block
  • Malaria
  • PCR
  • CCPR

Publication Subjects: 

  • Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation: Insurance payor mix among heart transplant centers
  • Donor derived cell free DNA levels are predictive of clinical events in stable heart transplant
    recipients
  • Prognostic implications of early and mid-range readmissions after acute heart failure hospitalizations
  • The gift that keeps on giving? The impact of donor coronary atherosclerosis on the development of coronary allograft vasculopathy by IVUS
  • Clinical Transplantation: Risk factors for early development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by intravascular ultrasound
  • JAMA Cardiol: Trends in readmission and mortality rates following heart failure hospitalization in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System 
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology: Diabetes and heart failure post-acute myocardial infarction: Important associations and need
    for evidence-based interventions
  • Nature Partner Journal Digital Medicine: Finding missed cases of familial hypercholesterolemia in health systems using machine learning
  • American Transplant Congress: More Than Meets the Eye: The Use of Serial Intravascular Ultrasound for assessment of Coronary Allograft Vasculopathy Following Heart Transplantation

San Diego Magazine Top Doctor Awards

San Diego Magazine Top Doctor Awards

Volunteer work/public health

Access to Diagnostics, Volunteer, Delhi, India

• Access to Diagnostics is a start-up NGO that provides high quality, organized, subsidized diagnostic services to Delhi’s 6 million urban poor

Baru Sahib Surgery Camp, Volunteer, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Assisted in a makeshift surgery camp in rural Northern India where life changing surgeries were being performed for populations that otherwise would not have access to such care.

Global Health Governance Summit

Global Health Education Consortium

UCSF Interprofessional Disaster Relief Organizing Committee “Stand with Haiti,” Fundraiser Co-Organizer

Global Brigades United States, Program Advisor

San Diego Cardiac Center

Awards and Honors

  • Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 
  • Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar 
  • Julian Wolfsohn Award for Outstanding Performance in Internal Medicine, Stanford 
  • University of California, San Francisco Certificate Program in Biomedical Research 
  • University of California, San Francisco Clinical and Translational Research Fellowship •
  • Fulbright-Nehru 2012-2013 Fellow, Delhi, India 

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