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) |
James D. Thomas, MD
Director, AI Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
core faculty
Baljash S. Cheema, MD, MCSI, MSAI
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Hawkins Gay, MD, MPH, MSAI
Cardiac Electrophysiology |
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 |
Sanjiv J. Shah, MD
Research Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Director, Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Therapeutics Neil J. Stone, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
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 |
PARTNERS
ai fellows
2023 – 2024
Amogh Karnik, MD
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Jonathan Hourmozdi, MD
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Tyler Smith, MD
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2022 – 2023
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
Lili Barsky, MD, MSAI
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Baljash S. Cheema, MD, MSAI
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2020 – 2021
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
Tom Liu, MD, MSAI
Cardiac surgery resident Vinesh Appadurai, MBBS
Cardiovascular imaging fellow Simon Benigeri, MSAI
McCormick School of Engineering student Kriti Shah
Medical student |
Adwaiy Manerikar, MD
Cardiac surgery resident Brody Slostad, MD
Cardiovascular imaging fellow Jennifer Maning, MD
Cardiology fellow Andreas Tzavelis, PhD
Medical Student |
Eric Yang, MD, PhD
Internal medicine resident Nick Easton, MSAI
Data scientist Toluwalase Awoyemi, MD, PhD
Internal medicine resident |
alumni
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 |