Professional Staff | The Texas Heart Institute®

The Texas Heart Institute Academic Professional Staff consists of cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and scientists, and specialists in related disciplines who are committed to the educational and research mission of the Institute. Members are approved by the THI Medical Executive Committee and THI Board of Trustees. The credentialing process remains open to all interested.

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Leadership

Emerson C. Perin, MD, PhD, FACC

Stephanie Coulter, MD, FACC, FASE

Medical Executive Committee

Jennifer Cozart, MD

R. David Fish, MD

Eduardo Hernandez, MD

Surendra K. Jain, MD

Mehran Massumi, MD

Robert P. Walmsley, MD

George Younis, MD

Physician Members - Cardiology

Arup Achari, MD, FACC

Jonathan Aliota, MD

Salman Bandeali, MD

Bruce E. Barnum, MD

Jie (Jay) Cheng, MD, PhD

Andrew Civitello, MD

Patrick J. Cook, MD

Briana Costello, MD, FSCAI

Stephanie Coulter, MD, FACC, FASE

Reynolds Delgado III, MD

Nikolaos A. Diakos, MD, PhD

Jorge Escobar, MD

Sayed F. Feghali, MD

R. David Fish, MD

Jorge Garcia-Gregory, MD

Joggy K. George, MD

Eduardo Hernandez, MD

Surendra K. Jain, MD

Zvonimir Krajcer, MD

D. Richard Leachman, MD

Alberto Lopez, MD

Mehran Massumi, MD

Andres Mesa, MD

Maher M. Nasser, MD

Atasu K. Nayak, MD

Alireza Nazeri, MD

Emerson C. Perin, MD, PhD, FACC

Alexander Postalian, MD, FSCAI

Saleem Raslan, MD

Mehdi Razavi, MD

Joseph G. Rogers, MD

Mark Schnee, MD

Samar Sheth, MD

Neil Strickman, MD

John Tyler III, MD

Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD

Robert P. Walmsley, MD

Amy Woodruff, MD

George Younis, MD

Physician Members - Cardiothoracic Surgery

William E. Cohn, MD

Jennifer Cozart, MD

O.H. Frazier, MD

Charles H. Hallman, MD

James J. Livesay, MD

Physician Members - Other

Arthur W. Bracey, MD

Benjamin Cheong, MD

Research Scientist Members

Ronald J. Biediger, PhD

L. Maximilian Buja, MD

Karla Bekardi, MD

Cristiano Cardoso, MD, PhD, MBA

Chu-Huang (Mendel) Chen, MD, PhD

Richard A. F. Dixon, PhD

Abdelmotagaly “Abdou” Elgalad, MD, PhD

Yong-Jian Geng, MD

Camila Hochman Mendez, MSc, PhD

Shaolie S. Hossain, PhD

Shijie Liu, PhD

James F. Martin, MD, PhD

Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD

Tamer Mohamed, PhD, MSc

Raja Muthupillai, PhD

Payam Safavi-Naeini

Ana Maria Segura, MD, MPH

Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD

Peter Vanderslice, PhD

Deborah C. Vela, MD, MS

Darren G. Woodside, PhD

Physician Associates - Cardiology

Rajiv Agarwal, MD

David Aguilar, MD

Mahboob Alam, MD

Reza Ardehali, MD, PhD

Christie Ballantyne, MD

Yochai Birnbaum, MD

Biykem Bozkurt, MD

Mihail G. Chelu, MD, PhD, FHRS

Enrique Garcia-Sayan, MD

Sheila K. Heinle, MD

Srikanth Koneru, MD

Nilesh Mathuria, MD

Joanna E. Molina Razavi, MD

Warren Moore, MD

Ajith P. Nair, MD

Joseph P. Navarijo, MD

Selby Oberton, MD

Juan Carlos Plana, MD

Abdi Rasekh, MD

Mourad Senussi, MD, MS

Guilherme V. Silva, MD

Leo Simpson, MD

Raymond Stainback, MD

Physician Associates - CV Anesthesia

James M. Anton, MD

Liqian Chen, MD

Joshua B. Cohen, MD

John R. Cooper, Jr., MD

Joseph Creo, MD

José Díaz-Gómez, MD, FCCM

Kishan Dwarakanath, MD

Katherine Gordon, MD

Kirk Jackson, MD

Ali Khalifa, MD

Wanda C. Miller-Hance, MD

Yangseon Park, MD

Thomas Powell, MD

Lerin Rutherford, MD

Daniel Tolpin, MD

Byron E. Tsusaki, DO

Physician Associates - Cardiothoracic Surgery

Lauren Barron, MD

Subhasis Chatterjee, MD, FACS

Joseph S. Coselli, MD

Ravi Ghanta, MD

Scott LeMaire, MD

Kenneth Liao, MD

Gabriel Loor, MD

Vicente Orozco-Sevilla, MD

Ourania Preventza, MD, MBA, FACS

Todd Rosengart, MD

Alexis E. Shafii, MD

Physician Associates - Other

Omar Barakat, MD, FRCS

Barry R. Davis, MD, PhD

William Goins, MD

Diana Guerra, MD

Marcia A. Kielhofner, MD

Scott Leikin, DO