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

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


David Brown, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Michael W. Fong, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Samuel Gordon, MD

LAC+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Peter Hanna, MD

UCLA Health
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Steven Leung, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Vivian Mo, MD, MHA

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Kruti Pandya, MD

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

Jerold S. Shinbane, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Aaron Wolfson, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Emily Zern, MD

LAC+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Parveen Garg, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Ivan Ho, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

(Program Director)

Ray V. Matthews, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Interventional Cardiology

Jonathan Nattiv, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Jina Sohn, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Junaid Zaman, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Eric Buch, MD

UCLA Health
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
Interventional Cardiology

Anilkumar O. Mehra, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Interventional Cardiology

(Program Director)

Enrique Ostrzega, MD

Professor of Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD

UCLA Health
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Jenica Thangathurai, MD

LAC+USC Medical Center
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Maxine Stachel, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Brandon Wiley, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Non-Invasive Cardiology

Andrew A. Zadeh, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Aron B. Bender, MD

UCLA Health
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Duc H. Do, MD

UCLA Health
Non-Invasive Cardiology