Welcome to the WMC Cardiology Fellowship! We are an academic program based at a quaternary referral center. As one of the 18 Cardiovascular Disease Fellows, you will be exposed to:
A very big congratulations to our third year fellows who had a 100% echo boards pass rate! Notorious for being known as one of the toughest board exams - we are so proud of them on this great accomplishment! 🎉🙌🏻🎊
We couldn’t be more excited to welcome this amazing group of physicians to the WMC Cardiology Fellowship Program!
Congrats to the newly matched class – the future of cardiovascular medicine is looking bright! 🫀
#MATCH2023
#ACCFIT
@WMCCardsFellows
Continuing the tradition of stellar matches, we are very proud to announce that
@UzairAMahmood1
will be heading to sunny California for Cards Crit Care
@Stanford
, while
@ameeshisath
will be taking his talents to Boston
@BrighamWomens
for Adv HF & Txp. Congratulations!! 🎊 🎉 🫀
Congratulations to our outgoing Chief Fellow
@UzairAMahmood1
& 🌟 Rising F3
@MahmoudSamyMD
for being awarded this year’s Best Teaching Fellows, from the Internal Medicine Department
@WestchesterMed
!! 🎉 👏🏼 🎊 🙌🏼
We are extremely proud of you both!
Early morning 🫀dissection today!
Led by our very own
#EPeeps
@DrRhthm
, this is definitely one of the most educational and fun hands-on lecture we have!
Many thanks to
@MedicalZoll
for supplying heart specimens to support our learning 🙌🏽
#CardioTwitter
#MedEd
#ACCFIT
Pleased to announce our new chief fellow
@TanyaSh112
and associate chief fellow
@DRBAHLER
for the 2024-2025 academic year! You are both outstanding and we can't wait to see all you will do to help lead our program in the upcoming year!
A very important grand rounds today by visiting professor
@ErinMichos
from
@hopkinsheart
on
#WomensHealth
and female-specific
#CV
risk factors!
Dr. Michos educated us on awareness for early identification & prevention. A superb and eye-opening talk! 👏🏽
#WomensHeartHealth
🫀
Our heartiest congratulations to the WMC Cardiology Class of 2024 who graduated last evening. We know you will only continue to do incredible things in your future career! Our best wishes to all!
We’ll have an incredible showing by
@WMCCardsFellows
at
@ACCInTouch
#ACC23
#WCCardio
this year!
1️⃣7️⃣ total projects being showcased 🔥:
13🫀fellows, 2 residents, 2 medical students
See below and don’t miss!
A 🧵:
Presenting our first annual push-up competition winner,
@DrRhthm
!
Dr. Jacobson truly schooled all the fellows with >10,000 push-ups done in the month of December! 😱👏🏽
Thanks to
@ameeshisath
for organizing this fun
#fitness
activity for
@WMCCardsFellows
!
Our program coordinator Tracy dropping off boxes of homemade
#gingerbread
cookies for the fellows!
She goes above and beyond for us on a daily basis and we’re lucky to have her!
#HappyHolidays
@WMCCardsFellows
Great pleasure hosting
@purviparwani
, who travelled from California to share insights on the Perioperative CV Management for Noncardiac Surgery Guidelines—hot off the press just 2 days ago 🔥
Fellows also enjoyed an inspiring session with her full of career & life advice 💬
From organ harvest to OR, our fellows see it all 🚁🫀 Training at one of the busiest heart transplant centers in NY with ~40 transplants every year 📈
Our ECMO & LVAD programs are also highly active and we work extremely closely with our CT surgeons 🤝
#Cardiotwitter
#ACCFIT
Prof. Valentin Fuster providing a look into the future of
#ASCVD
screening & treatment. A wonderful lecture on imaging 📸 & genomics 🧬 = imagenomics.
How do we keep a population from developing CV disease?
Incredible lecture
@WestchesterMed
@WMCCardsFellows
@MountSinaiHeart
Starting the year strong with our July bootcamp 💪 This prepares our new fellows with essential IC, HF, and EP topics with a myriad of hands-on sessions to ensure they’re ready to hit the ground running 🏃🏼♂️
Here are snapshots from this year’s bootcamp 📸
#CardioTwitter
#ACCFIT
Excellent talk by
@Ahaidry86
on evaluating a patient with Chest Pain and critical first steps during the “Golden Hour” (first 60 mins after presentation with STEMI), as part of our Fellows’ Boot Camp.
@SrihariNaiduMD
@hasan_ahmadMD
Packed house for 3rd year fellow
@ArjunKanwalMD
presentation on the topic of “To Play or Not to Play” in apical HCM patients moderated by
@JeffHsuMD
! We can’t wait to see all Arjun will do in the next stage of his career with a focus on Sports Cardiology and HCM!
#ACC24
⭐️Proud of our chief fellow and future interventionalist
@TanyaSh112
for her stellar presentation at
#ESCCongress2024
on young patients in the CICU! 🏥
Our fellows have access to premier research databases such as
@CCCTNetwork
enabling them to collaborate with national leaders 🙌🏻
Third year fellow
@ArjunKanwalMD
utilizing our echo sim lab to teach second year fellows how to obtain basic views as they start their TEE rotations!
#echofirst
What’s better than discussing SCAI stages of cardiogenic shock & advances in interventional HF with the master himself
@SrihariNaiduMD
over some great pizza!
Grateful for mentors who make fellowship training special!
#CardioTwitter
#ACCFIT
Our incredible Program Coordinator Tracy brought us home-made brownie & caramel waffle cones!
She truly goes above and beyond to take care of us fellows. Many thanks and much love, Tracy!
🙏🏽🍦
🚨Nerd Alert🚨
Check out the latest episode of
@CardioNerds
on iron deficiency in heart failure with
@robmentz
featuring our very own Cardio Nerds Academy fellow
@ShazliKhanMD
!
Fun time learning the basics of activating, setting up the cath lab and familiarizing with the common equipment used under the guidance of Dr.
@SrihariNaiduMD
and
@MalikMD10
.
Fellows Boot Camp ‘23.
Fantastic grand rounds today with guest Dr. Rachel Lampert, Director of Sports Cardiology
@YaleCardiology
on the hot topic of Return to play for athletes with cardiovascular disease! 🏃🏻♀️ 🫀
Congratulations to
@DRBAHLER
for being part of the 2nd annual class of Dr. Nishimura Scholars! We’re looking forward to Sameer sharing everything he’s learned in Rochester at the
@MayoClinicCV
board review with his co-fellows when he comes back home!
And a special congrats to
@AGoelMD
for being awarded the most prestigious Dr. Tanya Dutta Award - he embodies all things important that his program - humility, brilliance, and kindness.
Well deserved! 🙏🏽❤️
Had a great time presenting at the SCAI First NY fellows’ conference. Thank you
@SCAI
for the opportunity to share how we managed a rare yet catastrophic complication of late presenting STEMI and hear from some of the top experts in the field!
Happy Holidays to all from WMC Cardiology Fellows! We enjoyed a secret Santa gift exchange today as well as delicious treats from our coordinator Tracy. Thanks to
@ShazliKhanMD
for organizing our Secret Santa and
@DRBAHLER
for capturing great footage!
Happy holidays from the
@WMCCardsFellows
!
We had our annual
#SecretSanta
gift exchange along with some delicious food to send us off into the holiday weekend🎅🏽🎁🎄. (Missing a few fellows who were here in spirit!)
Many thanks to
@ArjunKanwalMD
for organizing. 👏🏽
#HappyHolidays
Fantastic Grand Rounds given by APD and advanced cardiac imaging aficionado
@PragyaRanjan
discussing LGE patterns for risk-stratification in patients with NICM!
Phenomenal Grand Rounds talk by
@HeartBobH
on the past, present and future of clinical cardiovascular trials today
@WestchesterMed
. Honored for this opportunity to learn from a master clinician, educator and researcher.
Our Chief of Cardiology Dr. Julio Panza giving a masterclass
#grandrounds
on the Dilemma of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease!
An incredible lecture of physiology, the history of
#CAD
, and updated literature review on this vast topic.
#CardioTwitter
Our fellows kicked off the year in style at the annual fellowship BBQ hosted by Dr. Lanier! It was a great day of competitive croquet, lawn games, and so so much amazing food 😎🍽️
At our program, we believe in working hard and playing hard!
#CardioTwitter
#ACCFIT
Learning from our very own
@SrihariNaiduMD
!
Dr. Naidu presented an excellent grand rounds about the past, present, and future of the continually evolving landscape that is
#HCM
treatment. 🫀
#ACCFIT
#CardioTwitter
Wonderful grand rounds last week entitled "Don't Poke the Bear" by our very own Dr. Avi Levine.
Dr. Levine, from our advanced
#HeartFailure
/Transplant division, discussed the diagnosis and management of rejection in the post-
#transplant
population.
#ACCFIT
#CardioTwitter
@YerazKhachatoo1
did a fantastic job presenting a case of Arrhythmogenic Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathy this past week at
#SCMR2024
in London!Co-authored by
@ShazliKhanMD
, under the mentorship of
@DrFuisz
. Lovely to see our former stellar fellow
@KoulovaAnna
join them 😊
We are so proud of our fellows and how productive they’ve been:
49 first-author manuscripts last year from 2021-2022! 📚
Kudos to their work effort and of course wonderful mentorship we have here at
@WMCCardsFellows
.
#ACCFIT
#CardioTwitter
#MedTwitter
Impressive display! These are just the first author manuscripts by our fellows
@WMCCardsFellows
so far in 2022! We still have one month left 😊. Kudos to their work ethic and productivity! Happy thanksgiving everyone! 🦃
And that strenous mental exercise was followed by some cake for the second birthday of the week - happy birthday to our associate PD Dr.
@PragyaRanjan
🎂 !
In between learning the ins and outs of devices, our future
#EPeeps
🌟🌟
@MahmoudSamyMD
@DrSubratDas
got a picture with former WMC fellow (and current EP 🌟) Amole Ojo at the recent Basic Concepts of Device Management Conference!
Proud of our boys
@ABaliMD
,
@AGoelMD
, and
@dhrubajyoti1
for making a strong showing at this years
@NYSCACC
#FIT
🫀Jeopardy competition (2nd place)!
We’ll be back again to compete for the top spot next year!
Congrats to the winners,
@SinaiCards
, and good luck in NOLA!
📚📖🤓
A big shoutout to today's NY FIT Jeopardy emcee
@SrihariNaiduMD
and to our FIT Reps,
@rowpower
@DikshyaSharmaMD
&
@ameeshisath
, who ran a seamless game for this year's teams.
We were blown away by all the NY trainees who showed off their impressive Cardiology knowledge today! 🏆
Speaking of chiefs, we are very pleased to announce that
@UzairAMahmood1
has been selected as Chief Cardiology Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year!
Many congrats on this honor, and well deserved!
👏🏽🎉
I had the privilege of talking to Dr Michelle Kittleson as part of ACC FITs-on-the-go on overcoming challenges faced by
#WIC
and fostering an environment of inclusion and growth for women trainees
#ACCFIT
@MKIttlesonMD
Watch the full interview here:
Fantastic cardiology grand rounds by Dr.
@seiiwaiEPmd
on the future of academic medicine!
We explored challenges at academic medical centers, rising healthcare costs, and innovative healthcare models 🏥
Insightful for cardiologists aspiring to lead in healthcare 🌐
#ACCFIT
Phenomenal presentation at our monthly Journal club today by budding sports cardiologist
@ArjunKanwalMD
highlighting a very important and interesting study for our HCM population!
Had the opportunity to present the LIVE-HCM study for journal club to my co
@WMCCardsFellows
.
Excellent study discussing cardiac events (or the lack thereof) with vigorous activity in patients with HCM. Special thanks to Dr Lampert,
@MJAckermanMDPhD
and the rest of the team!
Day 1 is in the books with a fantastic day of learning about basics of HF and CS, followed by troubleshooting ECMO, IABP and Impella devices. Next up 👉🏼 Is it a STEMI? And what view am I looking at?! Stay tuned for pearls from the world of IC today.
@SrihariNaiduMD
@hasan_ahmadMD
Tune in tonight to hear our faculty discuss all things HCM!
@WestchesterMed
is a nationally recognized
#HCM
center of excellence, led by
@SrihariNaiduMD
, that provides comprehensive care for patients and a wonderful/unique educational source for fellows.
#ACCFIT
#CardioTwitter
Delightful experience giving didactics to the Westchester Medical Center IM residents on the management of narrow complex tachycardia. Astonished by their unwavering alertness throughout the epic two-hour voyage! 🏥⏰
#CardioTwitter
#EPeeps
#MedEd
One of our former fellows,
@SYandrapalli
, making us proud! This time by having his research selected as
@InvasiveCardiol
’s top 10 articles of 2022.
In addition to his budding
#IC
career, Srikanth has been always incredible academician. Well done! 🙌🏽
@SrihariNaiduMD
@DLBHATTMD
Very important work by 🌟 fellow
@ameeshisath
and our
#AHFT
division, demonstrating utility of the OCS system to expand organ procurement options for our patients.
🫀👏🏽
Making the fellowship proud!
Looking back on a summer of productivity:
Here was
@ArjunKanwalMD
in Barcelona at
@escardio
presenting on risk stratification of intermediate, high-risk PEs and echo features which may predict mortality, adding to the ever-growing
#PERT
literature👏🏽.
#EchoFirst
#CardioTwitter