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Nausheen Akhter, M.D.
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Cardio-Oncology
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Ewa T. Dembowski, MD
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Ewa T. Dembowski, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Priya M. Freaney, MD
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Ewa T. Dembowski, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Program Director Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Alana A. Lewis, MD
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Kameswari Maganti, MD
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Kameswari Maganti, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
David J. Mehlman, MD
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Kameswari Maganti, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Issam A. Mikati, MD
Jyothy J. Puthamana, MD
Issam A. Mikati, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Radiology
Akhil Narang, MD
Jyothy J. Puthamana, MD
Issam A. Mikati, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Ravi B. Patel, MD
Jyothy J. Puthamana, MD
Jyothy J. Puthamana, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventative Medicine (Epidemiology)
Jyothy J. Puthamana, MD
Jyothy J. Puthamana, MD
Jyothy J. Puthamana, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Interventional Echocardiography
Vera H. Rigolin, MD
Robert Silverberg, MD
Vera H. Rigolin, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Echocardiography Laboratory
Sanjiv Shah, MD
Robert Silverberg, MD
Vera H. Rigolin, MD
Neil J. Stone, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Research, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute; Director, Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Therapeutics
Robert Silverberg, MD
Robert Silverberg, MD
Robert Silverberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
James Thomas, MD
Robert Silverberg, MD
Robert Silverberg, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director for the Center for Heart Valve Disease and Academic Affairs; Program Director for Artificial Intelligence Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease
Patricia Vassallo, MD
Patricia Vassallo, MD
Patricia Vassallo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Allison Zielinski, MD
Patricia Vassallo, MD
Patricia Vassallo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Nausheen Akhter, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Cardio-Oncology
I have both clinical and research interests in Cardiac-Oncology, to provide comprehensive cardiovascular care to every cancer patient. This spans screening cancer patients for cardiovascular disease to treating those who develop cardiovascular complications from cancer therapy. General interests also include cardiac imaging, valvular heart disease, and heart disease in women.
Mohamed M. Al-Kazaz, MD
Ewa T. Dembowski, MD
Priya M. Freaney, MD
Benjamin H. Freed, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Program Director Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Alana A. Lewis, MD
Kameswari Maganti, MD
David J. Mehlman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Echocardiography, General cardiology, Prosthetic heart valve disease
Issam A. Mikati, MD
Akhil Narang, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Akhil Narang, MD is a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the Associate Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory. Dr. Narang specializes in the use of advanced cardiovascular imaging (echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and cardiac CT) to aid in the diagnosis and management of patients. He specializes in the management of patients structural and valvular heart disease and provides imaging expertise for transcatheter/structural heart disease interventions. Dr. Narang is an active member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). He has served in numerous leadership positions in the past including Chair of the ACC Fellows-in-Training Section and Chair of the SCMR Early Career Section. Additionally he was selected to the Leadership Academies for both ACC and ASE. Dr. Narang is actively involved in a variety of research related to cardiovascular imaging, He has published multiple peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and review articles. He is on the Editorial Board for multiple cardiology journals. He is interested in the development, application, and testing of emerging cardiovascular imaging tools.
Ravi B. Patel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventative Medicine (Epidemiology)
Ravi B. Patel MD MSc is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology). He received his medical doctorate at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, he completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease and his post-doctoral research fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention at Northwestern University. Ravi's global research interest surrounds identification of mechanisms and therapeutic targets for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). His current research aim is to understand the clinical impact and pathogenesis of left atrial mechanical dysfunction prior to the development of HFpEF.
Jyothy J. Puthumana, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Interventional Echocardiography
-Director, Interventional Echocardiography
-Bicuspid aortic valve disease
Vera H. Rigolin, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Echocardiography Laboratory
Echocardiography, Valve disease, Women's cardiovascular health
Sanjiv J. Shah, MD
Neil J. Stone, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director of Research, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute; Director, Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Therapeutics
Sanjiv J. Shah, MD is the Stone Endowed Professor; Director of Research for the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute; Director, Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Medicine in the Insitute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine; and Director of the Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Shah’s clinical expertise and research program are focused HFpEF, which is one of the most prevalent cardiovascular diseases and for which there are few proven treatments. In 2007, Dr. Shah started the first dedicated HFpEF program in the world at Northwestern University. The Northwestern University HFpEF program has served as a model for several other similar programs in the United States and throughout the world. Dr. Shah has been continuously funded by grants from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health since 2008. He directs a laboratory that investigates the pathogenesis of heart failure; conducts multicenter clinical trials of novel therapeutics for heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac amyloidosis; and develops novel techniques for machine learning and artificial intelligence for the classification, diagnosis, and tracking of cardiovascular diseases. His is currently the principal investigator of the Data Translation Center for the NIH HeartShare Study, which is a large scale, prospective, multi-center initiative to apply next generation phenomics to identify heart failure subtypes and treatment targets. Dr. Shah’s research, which has spans basic research in animal models, clinical physiologic studies, human clinical trials, and population-based epidemiology studies, has highlighted the heterogeneity and systemic nature of the HFpEF syndrome, and has improved the understanding of the risk factors, pathogenesis, and pathophysiology of HFpEF. He has also pioneered the use of machine learning for novel classification of cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Shah has served as the international principal investigator, executive committee member, or steering committee member for > 35 multicenter randomized clinical trials and studies in heart failure. His work on clinical trials has contributed to the development of the first proven treatment for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, a highly fatal disease. Current research in his laboratory is focused on the molecular pathogenesis of abnormal cardiac mechanics; artificial intelligence for the automated interpretation of echocardiograms; adipocyte-endothelium-cardiomyocyte interactions; and the development of novel therapeutics for heart failure and microvascular dysfunction. Dr. Shah has published >400 peer-reviewed scientific research publications in leading medical journals, a textbook on cardiovascular genetics, and handbooks on internal medicine and cardiovascular disease. He is an associate editor of JAMA Cardiology, he is on the editorial board of Circulation: Heart Failure, and he has served as guest editor for the Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. His work has been cited over 18,000 times (Scopus, October 2021). Dr. Shah has mentored > 50 individuals throughout his career, including undergraduates, medical students, post-doctoral fellows, cardiology fellows, and early-stage faculty. He has received multiple teaching awards, including the George Joost MD, Teach of the Year Award at the Feinberg School of Medicine and the American College of Cardiology W. Proctor Harvey, MD Teaching Award. As an internationally recognized leading authority on HFpEF, Dr. Shah routinely lectures at international cardiology meetings, continuing medical education meetings, and academic institutions (including honorary lectures at Johns Hopkins University and Tufts University).
Robert A. Silverberg, MD
James D. Thomas, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director for the Center for Heart Valve Disease and Academic Affairs; Program Director for Artificial Intelligence Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease
James D. Thomas, MD, FACC, FASE, FESC, is Professor and Director of the Center for Heart Valve Disease at Northwestern University in Chicago. Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Dr. Thomas attended Harvard College (graduating summa cum laude in Applied Mathematics) and Harvard Medical School before training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Vermont. He has over 650 peer reviewed publications with an h-index of 137 and is past-president of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), currently co-chairing a committee to standardize strain echocardiography. Dr. Thomas also serves as lead scientist for ultrasound with NASA, focusing on the effects of space on cardiovascular function. Other research interests include cardiac mechanics, application of new echocardiography technology, and integration of engineering principles into clinical decision-making. When not reading echoes, Dr. Thomas enjoys cooking, skiing, scuba diving, and the occasional bungee jump.
Patricia Vassallo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
I am a clinical non-invasive cardiologist with a focus on echocardiography, aortic disease, valvular heart disease, as well as preventive cardiology including treatment of dyslipidemia and hypertension. I am interested in standardizing the management of patients with aortic dissection to improve outcomes. I am currently collaborating with cardiac and vascular surgery as well as radiology to improve the treatment, management and outcomes for patients with acute aortic syndromes. My clinical focus is preventive cardiology including primary and secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease by managing cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension and dyslipidemia. I also collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians to manage patients with acute aortic syndromes. My imaging focus is echocardiography.
Allison R. Zielinski, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Allison R. Zielinski, MD is a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine, and is Co-Director of the Sports Cardiology Program at Northwestern.
Dr. Zielinski specializes in general cardiology, sports cardiology and echocardiography. As an avid runner who has completed several marathons, she is passionate about the role of physical activity in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Her research interests include studying the effects of long-term endurance exercise on the heart, and electrocardiographic abnormalities in athletes. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Society of Echocardiography.
Dr. Zielinski received her bachelor of arts in English from Georgetown University. She received her MD from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She completed her fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at University of Illinois-Chicago. She is board certified in echocardiography, internal medicine, and cardiovascular disease.