People


Leadership

Jay Giri, MD, MPH

Jay Giri, MD, MPH

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8158398

Director, CAVOQER Center
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Jay Giri is the Director of the Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research (CAVOQER) Center.  Jay received his M.D. from Northwestern University and subsequently completed training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a cardiology fellowship at Penn, and an interventional cardiology fellowship at MGH.  He is director of Cardiovascular Catheterization at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center and the Director of Peripheral Intervention in the Cardiovascular Medicine Division at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  His clinical interests include complex coronary artery intervention, peripheral artery disease, venous thromboembolism, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement. His clinical outcomes research is focused on emerging endovascular technologies and interventional pharmacotherapies.

Sameed Khatana, MD, MPH

Sameed Khatana, MD, MPH

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8926159

Associate Director, CAVOQER Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Sameed Khatana is Associate Director of CAVOQER.  Sameed received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as part of the Medical Management Leadership Track, and his cardiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a fellow at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on the delivery of diabetes prevention programs for Medicare patients. Dr. Khatana’s research interests include health economics, quantitative evaluation of health policies, quality designation of health providers, and disparities in cardiovascular care. 

 

Nimesh Desai, MD, PhD

Nimesh Desai, MD, PhD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8199534

Associate Director, CAVOQER Center
Associate Professor of Surgery

Nimesh Desai is Associate Director of CAVOQER. He is a cardiovascular surgeon who serves as Co-Director of the Penn Aorta Center as well as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Nimesh’s research interests include organizing large multi-center clinical trials to assess new cardiovascular technologies and health process evaluations using big-data and novel statistical approaches to improve quality of care for cardiac patients.


Core Faculty

Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil

Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g321/p8128370

Professor of Emergency Medicine
Associate Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Emergency Medicine
Director, Center for Resuscitation Science

Sri Adusumalli, MD, MSHP

Sri Adusumalli, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8763423

Senior Medical Director of Enterprise Virtual Care for CVS Health

Anish Agarwal, MD, MHP

Anish Agarwal, MD, MHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p6435440

Assistant Professor & Chief Wellness Officer, Department of Emergency Medicine
Deputy Director, Center for Digital Health

Joseph Bavaria, MD

Joseph Bavaria, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p18964

Brooke Roberts - William Maul Measey Professor in Surgery
Co-Director, Transcatheter Valve Program
Director, Thoracic Aortic Surgery Program
Vice Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery

Chase Brown, MD, MSHP

Chase Brown, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8668178

Assistant Professor of Surgery 
Surgical Director, Coronary Revascularization, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Marisa Cevasco, MD, MPH

Marisa Cevasco, MD, MPH

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p6319757

Assistant Professor of Surgery 
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery

Scott Damrauer, MD

Scott Damrauer, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8562012

Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery

Rajat Deo, MD, MTR

Rajat Deo, MD, MTR

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8201040

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Sanjay Dixit, MD

Sanjay Dixit, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p27355

Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Philadelphia VA Medical Center

Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH

Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH

 https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/lauren-eberly-md-mph/

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine

Jonathan Edelson, MD

Jonathan Edelson, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8363248

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine

Alexander Fanaroff, MD, MHS

Alexander Fanaroff, MD, MHS

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p9264237

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology

Paul Fiorilli, MD

Paul Fiorilli, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8763549

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Co-Director of Transcatheter Valve Program

David Frankel, MD

David Frankel, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p33979

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine 
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program

Melanie Freas, DNP, CRNP

Melanie Freas, DNP, CRNP

 https://www.pennmedicine.org/providers/profile/melanie-freas

Clinical Program Manager, 
Center for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease

Elizabeth Genovese, MD, MS, FACS

Elizabeth Genovese, MD, MS, FACS

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p9680516

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Lee Goldberg, MD, MPH

Lee Goldberg, MD, MPH

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p16230

Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Section Chief, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program
Vice Chair for Informatics, Department of Medicine

Betsy Goldmuntz, MD, MSHP

Betsy Goldmuntz, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g5165284/p16066

Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Peter Groeneveld, MD, MS

Peter Groeneveld, MD, MS

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p2005842

Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Medical Center

Howard Julien, MD, MPH

Howard Julien, MD, MPH

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8922451

Assistant Professor Of Clinical Medicine

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Stephen Kimmel, MD, MSCE

Stephen Kimmel, MD, MSCE

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g5165284/p18828

Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Center for Therapeutic Effectiveness Research

Taisei Kobayashi, MD

Taisei Kobayashi, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8392172

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Clinical Medicine

Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP

Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8222688

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine

Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE

Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g5165284/p2009930

Director, Penn Center for Quantitative Echocardiography
Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP

Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8132810

David E. Longnecker Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Executive Director, Penn Implementation Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine

Jennifer Lewey, MD, MPH

Jennifer Lewey, MD, MPH

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8934969

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Pregnancy and Heart Disease Program 

Emily Mackay, DO, MS

Emily Mackay, DO, MS

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8851318

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Timothy Markman, MD

Timothy Markman, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g342/p9009717

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology 

Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP

Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g321/p8145916

Director, Center for Digital Health Penn Medicine
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Chief Transformation Officer and Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Ashwin Nathan, MD, MSHP

Ashwin Nathan, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p6268763

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Mark Neuman, MD, MSc

Mark Neuman, MD, MSc

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g319/p8209507

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care in Medicine
Chair, Penn Medicine Opioid Task Force 
Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Michael O'Byrne, MD, MSCE

Michael O'Byrne, MD, MSCE

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8169693

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Interventional Cardiologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Cardiac Center Clinical Research Core, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Joseph Rossano, MD, MS, MHCM

Joseph Rossano, MD, MS, MHCM

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8488817

Chief, Division of Cardiology
Co-Executive Director of the Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jennifer Terker Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 
Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Joseph Savino, MD

Joseph Savino, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g319/p9054

Abramson Family Professor in Anesthesiology
Vice Chairman, Strategic Planning and Clinical Operations
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Eugenia South, MD, MSHP

Eugenia South, MD, MSHP

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8400065

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Faculty Director, Urban Health Lab, Emergency Medicine
Associate Vice President of Health Justice, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Mahesh Vidula, MD

Mahesh Vidula, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p9137318

Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine

Grace Wang, MD, MSCE

Grace Wang, MD, MSCE

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8157996

Associate Professor of Surgery in Radiology
Director, Vascular Laboratory, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Robert Wilensky, MD

Robert Wilensky, MD

 https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g5165284/p6183

Emeritus Professor CE of Medicine
Director, Interventional Fellowship Program


Fellows

Elias Dayoub, MD, MPP

Elias Dayoub, MD, MPP

 Elias.Dayoub@uphs.upenn.edu

Resident, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

John Kelly, MD

John Kelly, MD

 john.kelly3@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident, Cardiovascular Surgery

William Patrick, MD

William Patrick, MD

 William.Patrick@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery 

Omar Ramadan, MD

Omar Ramadan, MD

 Omar.Ramadan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident, Department of Surgery

Lauren Sinnenberg, MD

Lauren Sinnenberg, MD

 Lauren.Sinnenberg@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Tarryn Tertulien, MD, MSc

Tarryn Tertulien, MD, MSc

 Tarryn.Tertulien@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine 


Staff

Lin Yang, MSE

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Biostatistician

Jingyi Wu, MS

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Biostatistician