Recent Graduates

Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

2024

Christoper Nnaoma, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Newark, New Jersey

Shazib Sagheer, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Cardiovascular Institute of Southern Missouri
Poplar Bluff, Missouri

2023

Raza Mian, MD,FACC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist – Private Practice
Methodist Debakey Cardiology Associates
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
Houston, Texas

Saroj Khadka, MD
Interventional Cardiologist – Private Practice
Advent Health
Orlando, Florida

2022

Zain Khakwani, MD
Interventional Cardiology – Private Practice
IMS Cardiology
St. Joseph Hospital Dignity Health
Phoenix, Arizona

Ismail Tabbash, MD
Interventional Cardiology – Private Practice
Southshore Cardiovascular Associates Inc.
Tampa, Florida

2021

Sartaj Gill, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Richmond Heart and Vascular Associates
Mechanicsville, Virginia

Snehitha Vijaykumar, MD
Director of Cardiac Cath Lab
Mary Greely Medical Center
Ames, Iowa

2020

Amer Hawatmeh, MD, FACC, RPVI
Interventional Cardiologist
St. Bernard’s Heart and Vascular
St. Bernard’s Medical Center
Jonesboro, Arkansas

Michael Divita, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, New York

2019

Mihir Barvalia, MD, FACC
Interventional Cardiologist
Scripps Memorial Hospital
La Jolla, California

Mohammed Thawabi, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, Indiana

2018

Gautam Visveswaran
Director of Complex Heart Interventions
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Newark, New Jersey

Michael Amponsah, MD
Interventional cardiologist
Banner Boswell medical center
Suncity, Arizona
Interventional Cardiologist – Private practice
Cardiac Solutions
Peoria, Arizona

2017

Peyman Naji, MD
Director Structural Heart Program
UCI Health
Lakewood, California

Kasaiah Makam, MD, FACC
Faculty
University of Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska

2016

Yassir Nawaz, MD
Director of interventional cardiology
Director of Cath Lab Geisinger
Geisinger Medical Center
Danville, PA
Associate Professor
Geisinger Common School of Medicine
Scranton, Pennsylvania

Nishant Sethi, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Commonwealth Health
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Nationally Acknowledged Proctor for TAVR / Focus Trans Carotid TAVR

2015

Mohammad Almadani, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Sydney Kimmel School of Medicine – Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Interventional Cardiologist
Jefferson Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Aravind Sekhar, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor
Interventional Cardiologist
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
El Paso, Texas

2014

Rajiv Tayal, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI
Director, Cardiac Cauterization Lab
Director, Structural Heart Disease
Valley Health System
Paramus, NJ
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Ichan School of Medicine
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York
Internationally Acknowledged
Proctor for Alternate Access for TAVR and VAD
Performed the first totally percutaneous Axillary TAVR in the United States

Spas Kotev, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI
Chair, Department of Medicine
Director of Cardiology
UIHC Medical Center
Iowa City, Iowa

2013

Zafar Iqbal, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Carolina Heart Specialists
Lancaster, South Carolina

Omar Hasan, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Englewood Hospital
Englewood, NJ

2012

Dan Tsyvine, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Grand View Hospital
Sellersville, Pennsylvania

Zeshan Rana, MD, FACC, RPVI
Medical Director
Cardiac Cath Lab
Mary Washington Hospital
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Partner
Cardiology Associates of Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg, Virginia

2011

Molu Fissha, MD, FACC
Interventional Cardiologist
Advent health Medical Group
Orange City, Florida

Constantin Boiangiu, MD
Interventional cardiology
PIMA Heart and Vascular
Tucson, Arizona

2010

Khalil Kaid, MD
Associate Program Director Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program
Director of Interventional Cardiology
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Newark, New Jersey

Nick Mejevoi, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Shore Point Charlotte Hospital
HCA Fawcett Hospital
Point Charlotte, Florida
Partner
Peace River Ambulatory Surgery/ Outpatient Lab
Peace River, Florida

2009

Ramzan Zakir, MD, FACC
Director of High Risk PCI & Research
Rutgers Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health University Hospital
New Brunswick, New Jersey

2008

Mohammad Khan, MD, FACC
Chairman of the Department of Cardiology
Methodist Cypress Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Gopinathan Pillai, MD
Travelling Interventional Cardiologist
United States

2007

Babar Ali, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Private practice
Silver Spring, Maryland
Partner
Advanced Cardiology Center/Outpatient Lab
Rockland, Maryland

2006

Ahsan Maqsood, MD
Director of Cardiac Cath Lab
Mercy One Medical Center
Waterloo, Iowa
Director of Cardiology
Waverly Health Center
Waverly, Iowa