Meet Our Team
Co-Investigators
Alexander Sandhu
Alex Sandhu, MD, MS is a heart failure cardiologist and clinical researcher at UCLA. His research focuses on using routinely collected data to better understand quality of cardiovascular care and outcomes and conducting pragmatic trials to evaluate strategies to deliver high-quality cardiovascular care.
Sneha S. Jain
Sneha S. Jain, MD, MBA is a preventive and general cardiologist at Stanford University. Sneha is also a clinician investigator and innovator, with a focus on cardiovascular prevention clinical trials and the development and evaluation of AI-augmented clinical care programs. She works with the Stanford Center for Clinical Research and the Data Science Team at Stanford to build, prospectively evaluate, and responsibly deploy AI solutions to improve cardiovascular care.
Akshay Chaudhari
Dr. Chaudhari is an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Data Science, and is currently the Interim Division Chief of the Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics section in Radiology. Dr. Chaudhari’s research is funded by the NIH, ARPA-H, and several industry partners. He also serves as the Co-Director of Clinical AI at Stanford Radiology and as the Associate Director of Research and Education at the Stanford AIMI Center.
Members
Jimin Hwang
Jimin Hwang is a Chief Resident in the UT Southwestern Internal Medicine Residency and an incoming cardiology fellow at Stanford. She completed medical school at Yonsei University and an MPH at Johns Hopkins prior to moving westward. Her interests lie at the intersection of cardiovascular prevention, access to therapies, and leveraging large-scale clinical data, cardiovascular imaging, and artificial intelligence to identify gaps in care. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring food and coffee spots, as well as indoor/outdoor biking.
Shyon Parsa
Shyon is an Internal Medicine resident at Stanford and incoming cardiology fellow at the Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine. He graduated with a B.S in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas- Austin and completed medical school at UT Southwestern, where he graduated with an M.D with Distinction in Research. His research focuses on the use of computer vision in large datasets and coronary artery calcium scans to improve our understanding of preventative cardiology.
Sara King
Sara is an Internal Medicine resident at Stanford and incoming cardiology fellow at the Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine. She graduated with a B.S in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and as a Global Health Scholar from Yale University. She completed medical school on full scholarship at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on cardiovascular disease in young adults, with emphasis on reducing health disparities.
Eduardo Pérez-Guerrero
Eduardo Pérez-Guerrero is an Internal Medicine Chief Resident at Stanford. A Puerto Rico native, he earned his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico. Eduardo aims to pursue a career in Cardiology, focusing his research on leveraging emerging technologies to address healthcare disparities, particularly enhancing Hispanic representation in clinical trials, improving healthcare delivery for non-English speaking populations, and increasing access to care for disadvantaged communities.
Priyansh Shah
Priyansh Shah is an Internal Medicine resident at Jacobi/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. He founded the World Youth Heart Federation, that has impacted over a million people, has given a TEDx talk and was one of the youngest person ever to be a part of the World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders Cohort. He was recently awarded 40 under 40 at CASSummit. His research interests include preventive cardiology, implementation science and digital health.
Christopher Babu
Chris is an Internal Medicine resident at Stanford. He graduated with a B.S. in Mathematical Biology & B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was awarded a B. Phil for his graduate thesis on addressing disparities among sexual assault survivors in college. He earned his medical degree from Weill Cornell and was awarded the Parisi Prize for outstanding performance in Internal Medicine. His research interests pertain to understanding patterns of GLP-1 use among patients with metabolic syndrome.
Marina Fonseca
Marina is an internal medicine resident at UW-Madison who grew up in Peru and the Bay Area. She has an honors degree in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University and was inducted into the Sigma Xi Research Honor Society for her work in medical devices. Marina earned her MD with Distinction in Research and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society at UW-Madison. She will serve as Chief Resident for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Madison VA.
Tania Chen
Tania is a research associate with Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine and CARE. She previously practiced medicine in India and completed an MPH at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research has involved decentralized digital health clinical trials and the development and validation of algorithms for chronic disease management. Her interests center on applying clinical decision tools and real-world clinical data to improve cardiovascular disease prevention and strengthen patient education. She aims to pursue an Internal Medicine residency.
Sarkis Bouladian
Sarkis Bouladian is a current medical student at Stanford. He studied Genetics and Genomics at UC Davis, where he engaged in biosensor engineering research and volunteered for a free clinic that primarily serves unhoused individuals. His research interests include Preventive Cardiology, Quality Improvement, and Health Equity. Sarkis aims to pursue Internal Medicine Residency followed by either Cardiology or Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship, and in the future, hopes to work as a physician and clinical researcher at an academic institution.
Dale Kim
Dale Kim is a current medical student at Stanford. He studied bioengineering with minors in chemistry and bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in the intersections between preventive medicine, language, technology, and health equity, particularly in the field of cardiovascular medicine. In his free time, Dale enjoys running, creative writing, crocheting, and feeding treats to cats.
Ahmed Eltahir
Ahmed Eltahir is an MD/MBA candidate at Stanford University. He completed his BA in Sociology and, during that time, completed a clinical research fellowship at Mayo Clinic. His research interests include AI-enabled care delivery to improve access and outcomes for patients, as well as utilizing technology to advance cardiovascular guideline-based care. He is broadly interested in how digital health infrastructure can support patients, clinicians, and health systems in delivering higher-quality care.
Maaz Imam
Maaz S. Imam, MsPH is an MD Candidate at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine. He earned his MsPH in Precision Health from The University of Chicago, where he concentrated in clinical research, data science, and entrepreneurship. During his graduate studies, Maaz trained as a registered researcher for the NIH’s All of Us Research Program. His research spans atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, chronic disease prevention, risk factors, social determinants of health, and technology-based medicine, with a particular focus on preventive cardiology.
Sophia Trabanino
Sophia is an undergraduate at Stanford University majoring in Biology with a concentration in Cellular, Molecular, and Organismal Biology. She is interested in exploring the intersections of preventive cardiology, cholesterol, and health equity, and is passionate about research that bridges basic science and clinical application to improve prevention and access to care. In the future, she aims to pursue a career as a physician while remaining engaged in research. Outside the lab, she enjoys baking, painting landscapes, and playing golf.