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Cardiology Fellowship

Meet Our Fellows

Class of 2026
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Ryan Handoko, MD

Medical School: Yale School of Medicine
Residency: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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Ishita Datta, MD

Medical School: Indira Gandhi Government Medical College
Residency: Detroit Medical Center

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Karina Mehta, MD

Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine
Residency: Oregon Health & Science University

Katherine Rand, MD

Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Residency: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Class of 2025
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Julian Hirschbaum, DO

Medical School: A.T. Still University
Residency: LAC + USC Medical Center

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Nupur Makkar, MD

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
Residency: University of California, Los Angeles

Class of 2024
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Gulnigor Ganieva, MD

Medical School: Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute
Residency: New York Presbyterian Brooklyn

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Aravinth Karunanandaa, MD

Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center

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John Martinez, MD

Medical School: Joe R. And Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Residency: University of Texas Health San Antonio

Where have our previous fellows gone?
2023

Imran Masood, DO

Advanced Fellowship in Heart Failure and Transplant at CHOP

Dayna Zimmerman, MD

Advanced Fellowship in Cardiac Imaging at CHLA

2022
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Julian Cameron, MD

Advanced Fellowship in Pulmonary Hypertension at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, now faculty at CHLA

Emily Morell, MD

Pediatric cardiology and critical care faculty at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

2021

Justin Pick, MD

Pediatric cardiology faculty at New York-Presbyterian Medical Group Queens

Sinan Denny-Brown, MD

Pediatric cardiologist at Pacific Cardiovascular Associates Medical Group in Orange County, CA

2020

Minh Nguyen, MD

Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Research Fellowship, now faculty at Texas Children’s Hospital

Molly Weisert, MD

Advanced Fellowship in Heart Failure and Transplant at CHLA, now faculty at CHLA