Clinical Fellowship Award Program

Grace O’Dea, MD

Mass General Brigham

Mentors: Hanna Gaggin, MD, Sarah Cuddy, MD

Hamish Scott, MD

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Dr. Hamish Scott completed undergraduate studies in medical research and worked in a basic science laboratory before undertaking medical training at the University of Melbourne and specialist training in hematology. He subsequently completed a Cellular Therapies Fellowship at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and has a particular interest in early-phase clinical trials and translational research.

Mentors: Heather Landau, MD, Jennifer Liu, MD, Edgar Jaimes, MD, Jessica Chapman-Lim, PhD

Hamza Naveed, MD

University of Chicago Hospitals and Endeavor Health System

Dr. Naveed, born and raised in Pakistan, completed his medical training there before pursuing residency at the University of Houston/HCA Kingwood program and a hospitalist year at Conroe Medical Center. His passion lies in amyloidosis, cardiomyopathies, and associated cardiac imaging — a rapidly evolving frontier in cardiovascular medicine. Outside of medicine, he enjoys hiking, ice skating, and socializing with friends and family.

Mentor: Nitasha Sarswat, MD

Jasmine Garg, MD

Oregon Health & Science University

Dr. Garg grew up in Portland, Oregon and earned her medical degree at New York Medical College. She completed her residency at Westchester Medical Center. Dr. Garg is interested in multiple areas within cardiology, including cardiac amyloidosis as well as cardiology research. Outside of medicine, she is passionate about running, swimming, hiking and traveling.

Mentor: Ahmad Masri, MD

Leonard Chiu, MD

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Dr. Leonard Chiu earned his medical and master’s degrees from Columbia University, where he developed a passion for cardiac amyloidosis while working with Mathew Maurer. He further completed his internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt and is currently a cardiology fellow at UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research interests include identifying biomarkers in heart failure and transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis.

Mentor: Justin Grodin, MD

Muzna Hussain, MD

Northwestern University

Dr. Hussain earned her medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She completed a clinical PhD in cardio-oncology and cardiac amyloidosis through the Cleveland Clinic in conjunction with Queen’s University Belfast. She completed internal medicine residency at Geisinger Northeast, followed as a hospitalist at the University of Kentucky. Her academic interests include cardiac amyloidosis, cardio-oncology, heart failure, and advancing multidisciplinary approaches to complex cardiovascular disease.

Mentors: Sanjiv Shah, MD, Ike Okwuosa, MD

Nancy Herrera, MD

Stanford University

Dr. Nancy Herrera-Leaño is a cardiologist originally from Colombia, and completed her medical training, internal medicine residency, and cardiology fellowship at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, and a Master’s degree in Heart Failure at SEC–Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. She is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, where her research focuses on computational approaches to early cardiovascular disease detection. Using the Project Baseline Health Study, she has evaluated contemporary echocardiographic guidelines for left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and is developing hybrid Bayesian–machine learning models to improve early detection and risk stratification of heart failure and cardiac amyloidosis. Her work spans echocardiographic reference standards, strain imaging, and AI-based diagnostic algorithms.

Mentors: Kevin Alexander, MD, Michaela Liedtke, MD

Sherif Eltawansey, MD, MPH

Columbia Irving Medical Center

Sherif Eltawansy began his medical education at the Cairo University School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt. He obtained a Master’s degree at the same university before moving to the US. He graduated from the Internal Medicine Residency program at Monmouth Medical Center in New Jersey in June 2016. He also earned a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His numerous publications reflect the breadth of his training and experience, with a major focus on the epidemiology of various cardiovascular diseases and their associations with other medical comorbidities. Sherif lives in Monroe, New Jersey, where he enjoys spending time with his family and kids.  He enjoys playing soccer regularly and loves nature activities and wildlife.

Mentors: Mathew Maurer, MD, Eugene Brailovsky, MD, Karan Wats, MD