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

Michael W. Fong, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Samuel Gordon, MD

LAG+USC Medical Center Non-Invasive Cardiology

Steven Leung, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Vivian Mo, MD, MHA

Clinical Professor of Medicine Interim Chief of Cardiology, USC
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Jerold S. Shinbane, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Aaron Wolfson, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant (Program Director)

Emily Zern, MD

LAG+USC Medical Center
Director of Cardiac Critical Care Unit
Non-Invasive Cardiology Cardiac Critical Care

Parveen Garg, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Cameron Incognito, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Ben Lin, MD

LAG+USC Medical Center
Director of Echocardiography and Structural Echocardiography Non-Invasive Cardiology

Ivan Ho, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (Program Director)

Ray V. Matthews, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Interventional Cardiology

Jonathan Nattiv, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Jina Sohn, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of Echocardiography Non-Invasive Cardiology

Junaid Zaman, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Uri Elkayam, MD

Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Heart Failure and Cardiac Obstetrics

Shawn Gogia, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Interventional Cardiology

Jubin Joseph, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Director of Structural Interventions Interventional Cardiology

Anilkumar O. Mehra, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Interventional Cardiology Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Program Director)

Ivana Nikolic, MD

LAG+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology Cardiac Critical Care

Enrique Ostrzega, MD

Professor of Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Maxine Stachel, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of Heart Failure at LAG
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

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