Chair's Corner

Ricardo Cardona Guarache, MD

Fellow Spotlight: Ricardo Cardona Guarache, MD

Ricardo Cardona Guarache, MDOriginally from Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Ricardo Cardona Guarache was drawn to a career in cardiac electrophysiology while still a medical student at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas.

Fellow Spotlight: Santi Yarlagadda, MD

Santi Yarlagadda, MDDr. Santi Yarlagadda was born in India, and grew up in upstate New York and Houston. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Texas at Austin and her medical degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y.

Alefiyah Rajabali, MD

Fellow Spotlight: Alefiyah Rajabali, MD

Alefiyah Rajabali, MDDr. Alefiyah Rajabali was born in India, and grew up in England and Pakistan. She was attracted to cardiology because the specialty is so grounded in physiology.

Anish Bhatt, MD

Fellow Spotlight: Anish Bhatt, MD

Anish Bhatt, MDBorn and raised in Pennsylvania, Dr. Anish Bhatt earned a bachelor’s degree in pre-medical sciences from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., and a medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.

José Sanchez, MD

Fellow Spotlight: José Sanchez, MD

Jose Sanchez, MD
Photo credit: Josh Edelson

Dr. José Sanchez was born in Ecuador, spent part of his childhood in Mexico City, where his father trained in cardiology, then eventually settled with his family in Las Vegas.

Mandar Aras, MD

Fellow Spotlight: Mandar Aras, MD

Mandar Aras, MDDr. Mandar Aras was born in Mumbai, India, then moved with his family to Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, earning bachelor’s degrees in neuroscience and economics, a PhD in neurobiology and his medical degree.

Dr. Eveline Stock.

Faculty Spotlight: Eveline Stock, MD

From the age of four, Dr. Eveline Oestreicher Stock knew she wanted to be a doctor. Born in Chuquicamata, a copper mining town in northern Chile, she often accompanied her mother on her hospital visits as part of the Damas de Rojo (Ladies in Red), a volunteer organization which brings material and spiritual support to patients.

Nelson Schiller, MD

Faculty Spotlight: Nelson Schiller, MD

Echocardiography uses ultrasound waves to create images of the heart, and Dr. Nelson B. Schiller fell in love with this technology just as it was emerging in the 1960s. After nearly half a century of discovering new ways to use this tool, Dr. Schiller, now the John J. Sampson-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology, remains as energized as ever about its power to transform patient care.

Saptarsi Haldar, MD

Faculty Spotlight: Saptarsi Haldar, MD

Heart failure affects nearly 6 million people in the U.S., and about half die within five years of diagnosis. The condition occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood and oxygen to adequately support the rest of the body. Current treatments can help alleviate symptoms, but cardiologist Dr. Saptarsi Haldar has a more fundamental question: can we develop drugs to change the genetic programming of ailing heart cells to make them better?