Cardiovascular Disease (General Cardiology) Fellowshiproster verified
Who actually matches here — current fellows, where they trained, and the research they've published.
Who gets in
The revealed bar — what this cohort actually looked like when it was selected, from the roster itself.
Publications dated before each trainee's start year (median, with interquartile range). Attribution is conservative — treat these as floors, not ceilings.
where they came from · 15+ schools across 22 trainees
- Harvard Medical School2 · 9%
- UCLA2 · 9%
- Baylor College of Medicine1 · 5%
- California Northstate University1 · 5%
- Duke University1 · 5%
- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth1 · 5%
- Georgetown University1 · 5%
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai1 · 5%
- Medical school in Australia1 · 5%
- Northwestern University1 · 5%
- Stanford University School of Medicine1 · 5%
- UC Davis1 · 5%
- UC San Diego1 · 5%
- UCSF School of Medicine1 · 5%
- University of Alabama at Birmingham1 · 5%
Research during training
7 of 22 current trainees with a known start year have published since starting. Cohorts are mid-training and attribution is conservative — this is a floor on the program's research environment, not a verdict.
Current cohort
| Name | Med school | Year | Pubs | RCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jimmy ZhengMD, MS | Stanford University School of Medicine | 1st Year | 4 | 2.86 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | 1st Year | 3 | 4.35 | |
| Northwestern University | 1st Year | 2 | 1.27 | |
| UCLA | 1st Year | 2 | 1.59 | |
 Chan Hee ChoiMD, PhD | Weill Cornell Medical College | 1st Year | 1 | 0.43 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 1st Year | — | — | |
 Reem ElorbanyMD, PhD | University of Chicago | 1st Year | — | — |
 Mark E. PepinMD, MS, PhD | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2nd Year | 47 | 1.28 |
 Fang CaoMD, PhD | Harvard Medical School | 2nd Year | 2 | 1.61 |
| Georgetown University | 2nd Year | 1 | 0.00 | |
| University of Southern California | 2nd Year | 1 | 0.00 | |
| UC Davis | 2nd Year | — | — | |
 Miguel J. FranquizPharmD, MD | Baylor College of Medicine | 2nd Year | — | — |
 Katherine V. TrinhMD, MS | Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | 2nd Year | — | — |
 Michael LiuMD, PhD | UCLA | 3rd Year | 19 | — |
| California Northstate University | 3rd Year | 16 | 0.60 | |
| Harvard Medical School | 3rd Year | 11 | 0.54 | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 3rd Year | 7 | 1.27 | |
| Duke University | 3rd Year / Chief Fellow | 1 | 0.32 | |
 Elena VastiMD, MPH | UCSF School of Medicine | 3rd Year / Chief Fellow | 1 | — |
| UC San Diego | 3rd Year | — | — | |
 Jack O'SullivanMD, PhD | Medical school in Australia | 4th Year TIP | 5 | 1.19 |
Known alumni 19
James V. Freeman · Karim Sallam · Ronald Witteles · William Fearon · Robert C. Wirka, MD · Christiane Haeffele · Euan A. Ashley · Mario C. Deng, MD · Joshua M. Spin · Joshua W. Knowles · Celina Yong · Marco Perez · Jennifer Tremmel · Rushi Parikh, MD · David J. Maron · Fatima Rodriguez · Matthew T. Wheeler · Han Zhu · Victoria Parikh
Compiled from public program rosters and open scholarly data (PubMed, OpenAlex, ORCID) with field-normalized impact (NIH iCite RCR). Research figures reflect publicly attributable work.