The Smith Center offers mentorship and fellowship training opportunities for researchers interested in studying cardiovascular outcomes. Mentees work with us at different stages in their education or professional training. The fellowship provides early career cardiologists with an opportunity to develop the expertise and skills needed to advance their portfolio in outcomes research. Many of our mentees continue to work collaboratively with our investigators, or have joined us as faculty.
* = joined the Smith Center as faculty.
+ = joined the Smith Center as affiliated faculty
Current Mentees
| Name | Year Started | Role in Smith Center |
|---|---|---|
| Enrico Ferro | 2017-2018; 2023 | Research Fellow |
| Eméfah Loccoh | 2019-2021; 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Rahul Aggarwal | 2020 | Visiting Research Fellow |
| Michael Liu | 2021 | Research Fellow |
| Prihatha Narasimmaraj | 2022 | Research Fellow |
| Joseph Kim | 2022 | Research Fellow |
| Nathan Watson | 2022 | Research Student |
| Victoria Bartlett | 2023 | Research Fellow |
| Rachel Gardner | 2023 | Research Fellow |
| Cindy Won | 2023 | Research Student |
| Christy Zheng | 2024 | Research Student |
| Nick Spetko | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Christina Lalani | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Jingyi Gong | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Nicholas Chiu | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Kimberly Clinch | 2025 | Research Student |
| Mohammed Essa | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Isaac Faith | 2025 | Research Student |
| Marcos Gomez Ambriz | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Ian Holdroyd | 2025 | Research Student |
| Nico Isaza | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Marlena Sabatino | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Darshali Vyas | 2025 | Research Fellow |
Past Mentees
| Name | Year Started | Year Ended | Role in Smith Center |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azariah Boyd | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Katerina Dangas | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| David Feldman | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Daniel Johnson | 2024 | 2025 | Research Student |
| Frank Medina | 2024 | 2025 | Research Student |
| Lucas Marinacci* | 2023 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Stephen Mein+ | 2023 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Ave Kludze | 2024 | 2024 | Research Student |
| William Earle | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Olivia Hulme | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Parth Patel | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Frans Serpa | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Isabella Ahmad | 2023 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Sonya Dolghii | 2023 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Shantum Misra | 2022 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Chantal Henry | 2022 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Zhuo Shi | 2022 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Alex Poluha | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Rasheed Thompson | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Constance Angell-James | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Lorenzo Bosque | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Michael Shu | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Andrew Oseran* | 2021 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Merilyn Varghese | 2021 | 2023 | Research Fellow |
| Ashley Kyalwazi | 2021 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Jamie Diamond | 2021 | 2022 | Research Fellow |
| Nicholas Reid | 2021 | 2022 | Research Student |
| Brendan Seto | 2021 | 2021 | Research Student |
| Ethan Dhadly | 2021 | 2021 | Research Intern |
| Rayad Shams | 2021 | 2021 | Research Student |
| Zaid Almarzooq | 2020 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Anna Krawisz* | 2020 | 2022 | Research Fellow |
| Neel Butala | 2019 | 2021 | Research Fellow |
| Aishwarya Raja | 2019 | 2021 | Research Student |
| Michael Hammond | 2019 | 2020 | Research Student |
| Nino Mihatov | 2019 | 2020 | Research Fellow |
| Tianyi Zhao | 2018 | 2020 | PhD Student |
| Che Qianzi | 2018 | 2019 | PhD Student |
| Huyang Zhang | 2018 | 2019 | PhD Student |
| Kamil Faridi | 2018 | 2019 | Research Fellow |
| Sameed Khatana | 2018 | 2019 | Research Fellow |
| Amir Singh | 2018 | 2018 | Research Student |
| Harrison Reeder | 2018 | 2019 | PhD Student |
| Prashant Rajan | 2018 | 2018 | Research Student |
| Mabel Chung | 2017 | 2021 | Research Fellow |
| Eunhee Choi | 2017 | 2020 | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
| Harun Kundi | 2017 | 2019 | Research Fellow |
| Jessica Holtzman | 2017 | 2019 | Research Student |
| Rishi Wadhera* | 2017 | 2019 | Research Fellow |
| Yang Hu | 2017 | 2019 | PhD Student |
| Yuansong (Sophie) Zhao | 2017 | 2018 | Research Student |
| Koryu Sato | 2017 | 2017 | Research Student |
| Ruoyi Wang | 2017 | 2017 | Research Student |
| Sicheng Hao | 2017 | 2017 | Research Student |
| Qianwen (Stephanie) Ko | 2016 | 2017 | Research Student |
| Cashel O'Brien | 2016 | 2016 | Research Student |
| Daniel Spertus | 2016 | 2016 | Research Intern |
| Eric Secemsky* | 2015 | 2018 | Research Fellow |
| Jordan Strom* | 2016 | 2017 | Inaugural Research Fellow |