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Poonam Velagapudi, MD, MS, FACC
Chair, Early Career Professional Council 2020-2023
Institution: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Social Media: @Pooh_Velagapudi
Clinical/Research Interests: High Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions, Mechanical Circulatory Support in Shock, Radial and Large Bore Access, Percutaneous Transcatheter Therapies including TAVR, TMVR, and MitraClip
Newton B. Wiggins, MD, FACC
Chair-Elect, Early Career Professional Council
Institution: The Chattanooga Heart Institute
Social Media: Twitter @nbwiggins
Clinical/Research Interests: Catheter Ablation. Device Therapy. Healthcare Efficiency
Zain (Zain) Ul Abideen Asad, MD, MS, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2022-2025
Institution: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Social Media: Twitter @ZainAsadEP
Clinical/Research Interests: Atrial Fibrillation Cardio Oncology Outcomes Research Education Research
Tamara (Tami) Atkinson, MD
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2020-2023
Institution: Portland VA Medical Center
Social Media: @TamiAtkinson
Clinical/Research Interests: structural valve interventions, veteran health care, interventional cardiology
Babar Basir, DO, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2021-2024
Institution: Henry Ford Hospital
Social Media: @Babar_Basir
Clinical/Research Interests: Complex Coronary Interventions, Advanced Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices. Research interests include the use of mechanical circulatory support devices in cardiogenic shock and strategies to improve the safety of complex coronary interventions.
Brenton Bauer, MD, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2020-2023
Institution: COR Healthcare Associates/Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Social Media: Twitter @BrentonBauerMD, LinkedIn
Clinical/Research Interests: General Cardiology, Cardio-Oncology, & Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Aditya Bharadwaj, MD, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2020-2023
Institution: Loma Linda University
Social Media: Twitter @adityadoc1
Clinical/Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology- high bleeding risk, mechanical circulatory support, cardiogenic shock
Sanah Christopher, MD, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2021-2024
Institution: Hawaii Pacific Health
Social Media: @SanChris999
Clinical/Research Interests: Women's Cardiovascular Health, Complex PCI, Cardiogenic shock, Mechanical circulatory support
Nadia Fida, MD, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2020-2023
Institution: Houston Methodist DeBakey Cardiology Associates
Howard M. Julien, MD, MPH, ML
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2021-2024
Institution: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Social Media: Twitter @hmartinjulien
Clinical/Research Interests: Healthcare Disparities and Equity in Cardiovascular Outcomes, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthcare Resource Utilization, Health Law, Nuclear Cardiac Imaging Echocardiography
Mirza Umair Khalid, MBBS, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2020-2023
Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Social Media: Twitter @Umair2017
Clinical/Research Interests: Intracoronary Imaging & coronary physiology, Invasive cardiac hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, Complex coronary interventions (Bifurcation, Left main, CTOs), multimodality imaging.
Nosheen Reza, MD, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2022-2025
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Social Media: @noshreza - linkedin.com/in/nosheenreza
Clinical/Research Interests: Cardiovascular Genetics; Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart Transplantation; Medical Education; Quality Improvement & Patient Safety; Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Matthew Sherwood, MD, FACC
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2020-2023
Institution: INOVA Medical Group
Monica Verdoia
Member, Early Career Professional Council 2022-2025
Institution: Nuovo Ospedale degli INfermi, ASL Biella IT
Clinical/Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology Coronary Physiology Thrombosis Metabolism and Vitamin D
Alumni Members
Sunit-Preet "Sonny" Chaudhry, MD, FACC
Early Career Professional Council 2019-2022
Institution: St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana
Social Media: @SunitChaudhryMD
Clinical/Research Interests: Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart Transplantation, Precision Medicine
Michael Cullen, MD, FACC
Early Career Professional Council 2019-2022
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Twitter: @mwcullen
Clinical/Research Interests: General cardiology, cardiovascular education, echocardiography, structural heart disease
Nkechinyere "Nkechi" Ijioma, MD, FACC
Early Career Professional Council 2019-2022
Institution: Mayo Clinic Health System, La Crosse, WI
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