Faculty

John B. Gordon, MD, FACC
Interventional Cardiology (Retired)
SHARP Memorial Hospital San Diego, California

Richard Wright, MD, FACC
Chairman, Pacific Heart Institute, Santa Monica, CA
Co-Chair, Heart Failure Clinical Specialty Committee, Providence Health & Services

Robert Adamson, MD, FACS
Surgical Director, Cardiac Transplant Program
Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA

Christine Albert, MD
Electrophysiologist
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California

Laith Alshawabkeh, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
University of California San Diego

Ramy Badawi, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
The Queen’s Health System

Charles Athill, MD, FACC, FHRS
Executive Director, San Diego Cardiac Center
Director of Electrophysiology, Sharp Memorial Hospital
San Diego, CA

Dip Banerjee, MD, MS
Program Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship
Director, Center for Advanced Heart Failure- Queen’s Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine, John A Burns School of Medicine, The University of Hawai’i
Honolulu, HI

Matthew Budoff, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, UCLA
Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology, Lundquist Institute
Torrance, CA

Ralph Brindis, MD, MPH, MACC, FSCAI
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francsisco
Department of Medicine & the Philip R. Lee for Health Policy Studies University of California, San Francsisco
Senior Medical Officer, External Affairs- ACC National Cardiovascular Data Registry
Past President, American College of Cardiology, San Francisco, CA

Jane C. Burns, MD
Director, Kawasaki Disease Research Center
Professor of Pediatrics
UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital
San Diego, CA

Sanah Christopher, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Pali Momi Heart Center

Lori Daniels, MD
Medical Director of Cardiovascular ICU
Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego

Rahul Doshi, MD, FACC
Director of Electrophysiology
Associate Professor of Medicine at USC

Shephal Doshi, MD, FACC
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Pacific Heart Institute and Providence St. John’s Health Center
Executive Director, Pacific Heart Institute, Santa Monica, CA

Anthony Hilliard, MD, FACC
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Roy and Kenneth Jutzy Endowed Chair in Cardiology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief Operating Officer, Loma Linda University Faculty Medical Group
Senior Vice President Clinic Operations, Loma Linda University Health Care
Associate Dean for Clinical Faculty Operations, Loma Linda University School of Medicine

Dipti Itchaporia, MD, MACC, FAHA, FESC
Eric & Sheila Samson Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Health
Director of Disease Management
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, CA
Clinical Professor, University of California, Irvine
Past President, American College of Cardiology
Board Member, World Heart Federation

Brian Jaski, MD, FACC, FHSA
Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure
Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA

Devin Kehl, MD, FACC
Cardiologist
Pacific Heart Institute

David Krummen, MD, FACC, FHRS
Director of Electrophysiology, VA San Diego Health Care System
Professor of Clinical Medicine, San Diego, CA

Jacob Kelly, MD, FACC
Providence Alaska Medical Center
Anchorage, Alaska

Carol Ko, MS, CGC
Licensed, Certified Genetic Counselor
Providence St. Joseph Hospital

Kristen Kulasa, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

Hirsch Mehta, MD, FACC, FHFSA
Chief of Cardiology
SHARP Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA

John Mignone, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Support
John L. Locke, Advanced Cardiac Support Program, Seattle, WA

Anna Mizzell, MD
Cardiologist
University of California San Diego

James Mudd, MD
Center for Advanced Heart Disease and Transplantation
Providence Spokane Heart Institute, Spokane, WA

Jared Oyama, MD
Cardiologist
Straub Medical Center

Mitul Patel, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Interventional Cardiology
Director of Peripheral Vascular Interventions
UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center
VA San Diego Healthcare System
La Jolla, CA

Jacqueline Saw, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia

Christiane Schaeffler, MD, FACC
Cardiologist
Pacific Heart Institute

Peter Schneider, MD
Vascular Surgeon
University of California San Francisco

Rigved Tadwalkar, MD, FACC
Director, Digital Transformation
Pacific Heart Institute, Santa Monica, CA