Meet Our Faculty
Program Leadership
Helga Van Herle, MD, MS, MHA
Program Director
Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Program
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Ajay Vaidya, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director
Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Program
Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
David Brown, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Uri Elkayam, MD
Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Heart Failure and Cardiac Obstetrics
Michael W. Fong, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
Parveen Garg, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Shawn Gogia, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Interventional Cardiology
Samuel Gordon, MD
LAG+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Cameron Incognito, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Ivan Ho, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
(Program Director)
Michael Ho, MD
LAG+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Jubin Joseph, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of Structural Interventional
Interventional Cardiology
Ben Lin, MD
LAG+USC Medical Center
Director of Echocardiography and Structural Echocardiography
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Steven Leung, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Ray V. Matthews, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Interventional Cardiology
Anilkumar O. Mehra, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director of the Cath Lab
Interventional Cardiology
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
(Program Director)
Vivian Mo, MD, MHA
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Jonathan Nattiv, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
Ivana Nikolic, MD
LAG+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Cardiac Critical Care
Enrique Ostrzega, MD
Professor of Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Jerold S. Shinbane, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Jina Sohn, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of Echocardiography
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Maxine Stachel, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of Heart Failure at LAG
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
Rongzi “Rose” Shan, MD
LAG+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Aaron Wolfson, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
(Program Director)
Brandon Wiley, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Chief of Cardiovascular Services at LAG
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Cardiac Critical Care
Andrew A. Zadeh, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Junaid Zaman, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Emily Zern, MD
LAG+USC Medical Center
Director of Cardiac Critical Care Unit
Clinical Assistant Professor (Voluntary)
Non-Invasive Cardiology
Cardiac Critical Care
Leon Zhou, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant