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.
Current Mentees
| Name | Year Started | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Basala | 2026 | Research Student |
| Ron Dickerson | 2026 | Research Fellow |
| Ray Han | 2026 | Research Fellow |
| Abraham Hussain | 2026 | Research Student |
| Aishwarya Raja | 2019-2021; 2026 | Research Fellow |
| Kavya Shah | 2026 | Research Student |
| Eméfah Loccoh | 2019-2021; 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Rahul Aggarwal | 2020 | 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 |
| Christian Mewaldt | 2023 | Research Fellow |
| Rachel Gardner | 2023 | Research Fellow |
| Cindy Won | 2023 | Research Student |
| Christina Lalani | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Hyeok-Hee Lee | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Katerina Dangas | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Christy Zheng | 2024 | Research Student |
| Nicholas Chiu | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Mohammed Essa | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberly Clinch | 2025 | 2026 | Research Student |
| Marcos Gomez Ambriz | 2025 | 2026 | Research Fellow |
| Jingyi Gong* | 2024 | 2026 | Research Fellow |
| Nick Spetko* | 2024 | 2026 | Research Fellow |
| Azariah Boyd | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Daniel Johnson | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| David Feldman | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Frank Medina | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Sergio da Rosa Decker | 2024 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Ave Kludze | 2024 | 2024 | Research Student |
| Enrico Ferro* | 2017 | 2018 | Research Fellow |
| Lucas Marinacci* | 2023 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Stephen Mein* | 2023 | 2025 | Research Fellow |
| Cindy Won | 2023 | 2024 | Research Student |
| Frans Serpa | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Olivia Hulme | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Parth Patel | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Rachel Gardner | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| William Earle | 2023 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Isabella Ahmad | 2023 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Sonya Dolghii | 2023 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Nathan Watson | 2022 | 2024 | 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 |
| Constance Angell-James | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Lorenzo Bosque | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Michael Shu | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Rasheed Thompson | 2022 | 2022 | Research Intern |
| Andrew Oseran* | 2021 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Ashley Kyalwazi | 2021 | 2023 | Research Student |
| Merilyn Varghese | 2021 | 2023 | Research Fellow |
| 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 |
| Anna Krawisz* | 2020 | 2022 | Research Fellow |
| Zaid Almarzooq | 2020 | 2024 | Research Fellow |
| Emefah Loccoh | 2019 | 2021 | Research Fellow |
| Neel Butala | 2019 | 2021 | Research Fellow |
| Michael Hammond | 2019 | 2020 | Research Student |
| Nino Mihatov | 2019 | 2020 | Research Fellow |
| Tianyi Zhao | 2018 | 2020 | PhD Student |
| Che Qianzi | 2018 | 2019 | PhD Student |
| Harrison Reeder | 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 |
| 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 |
| Enrico Ferro | 2017 | 2018 | Research 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 |