meet the team
Experts in the Relentless Pursuit of Better Medicine Through AI
LEADERSHIP
Faraz S. Ahmad, MD, MS
Associate Director, Center for AI, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics) |
Adrienne S. Kline, MD, PhD
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, Center for AI, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and Research Assistant Professor of Surgery (Cardiac Surgery) |
Sanjiv J. Shah, MD
Director of Research, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Clinical Trials Unit Neil J. Stone, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
James D. Thomas, MD
Director, AI Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
core faculty
Abigail Baldridge, DrPH, MS
BCVI Director of Statistics |
Baljash S. Cheema, MD, MCSI, MSAI
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Paul C. Cremer, MD
Associate Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Clinical Trials Unit Associate Professor, Medicine (Cardiology), Radiology |
Hawkins Gay, MD, MPH, MSAI
Cardiac Electrophysiology |
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Amogh Karnik, MD, MSc
Instructor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Akhil Narang, MD
Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, Northwestern University/Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Anjan Tibrewala, MD
Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Research West Region Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
steering committee
Patrick M. McCarthy, MD
Executive Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Heller-Sacks Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery |
Douglas R. Johnston, MD
Surgical Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery Professor of Surgery (Cardiac Surgery) |
R. Kannan Mutharasan, MD
Medical Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute South Region Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Jane E. Wilcox, MD, MSc
Chief, Section of Heart Failure, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Rod S. Passman, MD
Director, Center for Arrhythmia Research Jules J. Reingold Professor of Electrophysiology, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine |
Doug King, MBA
Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Northwestern Medicine |
Kristian J. Hammond, PhD
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering |
Vicki Diep, MHA
Vice President, Operations, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute |
PARTNERS
ai fellows
2024 – 2025
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Joanne E. Mathew, MD
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Paola Barrios Martinez, MD
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2023 – 2024
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Amogh Karnik, MD
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Jonathan Hourmozdi, MD
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Tyler Smith, MD
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2022 – 2023
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Hardik Doshi, MD, MSAI
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Tom Liu, MD, MSAI
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Praneet Mylavarapu, MD, MSAI
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2021 – 2022
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Lili Barsky, MD, MSAI
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Baljash S. Cheema, MD, MSAI
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2020 – 2021
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Hawkins Gay, MD, MSAI
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Alex Leidner, MD, MSAI
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Ramsey Wehbe, MD, MSAI
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trainees and staff
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Tom Liu, MD, MSAI
Cardiac surgery resident Anirudha Chanrabhatla, MD
Cardiac and thoracic surgery resident Simon Benigeri, MSAI
McCormick School of Engineering student Kriti Shah
Medical student |
Adwaiy Manerikar, MD
Cardiac surgery resident Jennifer Maning, MD
Cardiology fellow Andreas Tzavelis, PhD
Medical Student Kipp Johnson, MD, PhD
Cardiology fellow Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) |
Eric Yang, MD, PhD
Cardiology Fellow Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) Nick Easton, MSAI
Data scientist Toluwalase Awoyemi, MD, PhD
Internal medicine resident |
alumni
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Vinesh Appadurai, MBBS
Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging and Cardiac Amyloidosis Fellow Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Completed program August 2024 Caroline Canning, MD
Medical Student Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Graduated June 2023 |
Thomas Barnes
Undergraduate, Moorehouse College Funded by American Heart Association SURE Scholars Program Completed program August 2022 Brody Slostad, MD
Advanced Cardiac Imaging |