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Cardiovascular Fellowship

Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship

The Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Wilson Medical Center, established in 2017, is fully accredited by the ACGME and sponsored by the Internal Medicine Residency. It is a 3-year program that accepts 1or 2 fellows per year. Our goal is to provide advanced education to allow our fellows to acquire competency in the sub-specialty with sufficient expertise to act as an independent consultant in accordance with COCATS guidelines.

United Health Services Hospitals is a high-volume cardiac institution, admitting more than 100 STEMI patients per year and about 1,000 PCI procedures with more than 20 cardiac consults every day. More than 8,000 echocardiograms and 3,000 nuclear stress tests are performed every year. The organization is dedicated to providing excellence in cardiovascular treatment with a new Heart and Vascular Institute, established in December 2014, to unify all aspects of cardiac services to provide patients and fellows a comprehensive multidisciplinary coordinated patient care approach.

Program Highlights:

  • Wilson Medical Center is a high-tech, regional referral and level 2 trauma center
  • An extensive and diverse patient population
  • Solid, well-established base residency programs
  • Weekly lectures, grand rounds, case presentations, and M&M conference
  • Opportunities in clinical research activities including participation in regional poster sessions
  • Faculty appointment as Clinical Assistant Instructor of Upstate Medical University
Program Director
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Afzal Rehman, MD, PhD, MBA

Title: Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Vice President, Informatics

Medical School: King Edward Medical College
Residency: United Health Services, Johnson City, NY
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, Medical College of Georgia; Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Wisconsin

Curriculum, Faculty and Fellowship

PGY-4:

Consult Service (3 months)
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (2 months)
Echocardiography (3 months)
Cardiac Catheterization (3 months)
Nuclear Cardiology/CTA (2 months)

PGY-5:

Consult Service (2 months)
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (2 months)
Echocardiography (2 months)
Cardiac Catheterization (2 months)
Nuclear Cardiology/CTA (1 month)
Electrophysiology (1 month)
Research (1 month)
Electives (2 months)

PGY-6:

Consult Service (2 months)
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (1 month)
Echocardiography (1 month)
Cardiac Catheterization (1 month)
Nuclear Cardiology/CTA (1 month)
Electrophysiology (1 month)
Elective (4 months)
Vascular Surgery (1 month)
Cardiothoracic Surgery (1 month)

In addition, fellows will participate in continuity clinic for 1 half day per week, with an average of 8 patients per session. Extra ambulatory experience will include heart clinic, hypertension clinic, and heart failure clinic.

Fellows are also required to complete at least 1 research or scholarly activity project over the course of their 3 years

Faculty

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Afzal Rehman, MD, PhD, MBA

Title: Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship; Vice President, Informatics
Medical School: King Edward Medical College
Residency: United Health Services, Johnson City, NY
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, Medical College of Georgia; Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Wisconsin
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Keyoor Patel, DO

Title: Associate Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship; Director, Echocardiography
Medical School: New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: North Shore University Hospital at Manhasset
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Disease, Milwaukee Heart Institute, Aurora Sinai, St. Luke’s Medical Center

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Sreekanth Kondareddy, MD

Title: Director, Cardiac Care Unit
Medical School: Osmania Medical College
Residency: Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Disease, Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital

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Rasha Aurshiya, MD

Title: Cardiologist – Advanced Heart Failure
Medical School: Andhra Medical College, India
Residency: St. Michael's Medical Center, Newark, NJ
Fellowships: Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY - Advanced Heart Failure MCS and Transplant Cardiology, St. Luke's University, Bethlehem, PA - Cardiovascular Medicine 
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Owais Ahmed, MD

Title: Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Medical School: Punjab Medical College
Residency: United Health Services, Johnson City, NY
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Interventional Cardiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center

Alon Yarkoni, MD

Alon Yarkoni, MD

Title: Cardiologist
Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Residency: Yale University School of Medicine
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, Good Samaritan Medical Center; Interventionl Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Structural Heart Disease, Henry Ford Hospital

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Fnu Shailesh, MD

Title:  Cardiologist
Medical School:  Maulana Azad Medical College
Residency:  University of Arkansas
Fellowship:  University of Arkansas

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Hisham Kashou, MD

Title:  Cardiologist
Medical School:  SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY
Residency:  Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship:  Graduate Hospital, Univ. of PA and Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Paul Traverse, MD

Paul Traverse, MD

Title:  Cardiologist
Medical School:  Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Residency:  Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York
Fellowship:  St. Luke's Hospital Center, New York, New York

Michail Vitellas, MD

Michail Vitellas, MD

Title:  Cardiologist
Medical School:  Aristotle University of Thassaloniki
Residency:  Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC, Internal Medicine
Fellowship:  Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC, Cardiology, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC, Interventional Cardiology

Ata Bajwa, MD

Title: Cardiologist – Electrophysiology
Medical School: King Edward Medical College
Residency: University of Missouri
Fellowships: Cardiology, University of Missouri; Electrophysiology, Penn State College of Medicine 

Nasir Hussain, MD 

Title: Cardiologist – Cardiac Imaging
Medical School: Rawalpindi Medical College
Residency: St. Joseph’s Hospital, Chicago IL
Fellowships: UHS Hospitals, Mayo Clinic, Allegheny General Hospital, Hartford Hospital

Current Fellows

 

PGY 4 

Farid Khan, MD

Aga Khan University Medical College 

UHS Wilson Medical Center, Johnson City, NY, Internal Medicine Residency 

Ali Mir, MD

R.A.K. College of Medical Sciences

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Internal Medicine Residency

Altif Muneeb, MD

C.M.H. Lahore Medical College & Institute of Dentistry

UHS Wilson Medical Center, Johnson City, NY, Internal Medicine Residency 

PGY 5 

Mohsin Mughal, MD

King Edward Medical University

Rutgers Health/Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, Internal Medicine Residency

Joseph Petro, MD

St. George's University School of Medicine

Atlantic Health (Morristown), Morristown, NJ, Internal Medicine Residency

PGY 6 

Muhammad Shoaib Khan, M

Allama Iqbal Medical College

Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI, Internal Medicine Residency

Ahmed Pasha, MD

Nishtar Medical University

University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tuscon, AZ, Internal Medicine Residency


 

Stipends and Benefits

SALARY: $64,459

Insurance Coverage

  • Health Insurance: UHSH is partnered with Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) to provide our employees with Blue Preferred (UHS PPO).  UHSH covers a major portion of the health insurance premiums. Premiums are deducted bi-weekly from your paycheck.
  • Pharmacy: Prescriptions may be filled through UHS, an Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield network pharmacy or through mail order.
  • Life Insurance: Provided and paid for by the hospital, equal to your annual salary.
  • Malpractice Insurance: Provided and paid for by the hospital.
  • Dental Insurance: Standard and high option dental plans available at shared cost with the hospital.
  • Vision Insurance:  Shared cost with the hospital
  • Wellness Rewards
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Direct Deposit

Personal Time Off:  (vacations, holidays, board exams, interviews, unexpected absences including illnesses):  27 days

Moving Allowance: A moving allowance of $300 is provided to each resident.

Professional Development Fund: Each fellow is allotted $1,500/year to be used towards professional development, conferences, books, tablets/computers, software, stethoscopes, etc.

Academic Appointments:  All fellows receive an academic appointment as a Clinical Assistant Instructor at Upstate Medical University (SUNY), Syracuse, New York.

Athletic/Gym Privileges: Fellows have access to the non-fee based athletic facilities at Binghamton University: gymnasium, weight room, indoor and outdoor tracks, pools, racquetball and tennis courts.

Licensure:  Obtaining a full New York medical license is required of fellows. NYS licensure fees are covered by GME.

To Apply

Applicants are required to have successfully completed a residency in Internal Medicine from an ACGME accredited program. The interested applicant should apply to our program using the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), September through November 1st, to include the following materials:

  • Current Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Personal Statement
  • Letters of Recommendation (minimum of 3), including 1 from your Residency Program Director
  • USMLE and/or COMLEX Transcript

For more information email Laila.Ragon@nyuhs.org.