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

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

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 & Fellows

Faculty

Fellows

Current Fellows	Medical School
Afsha Aurshina, MBBS Title:1st Year Fellow	Andhra Medical College
Hasan Mirza, MBBS Title:1st Year Fellow	Services Institute of Medical Sciences
Wajeeh Rehman, MBBS Title: 2nd Year Fellow	C.M.H Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry
Md Rockyb Hasan, MBBS Title: 2nd Year Fellow	Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College
Sunny Kumar, MBBS Title: 2nd Year Fellow	Chandka Medical College
Arham Pasha, MD Title: Title: 2nd Year Fellow	University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Farid Khan, MBBS Title: 3rd Year Fellow	Aga Khan University Medical College
Ali Mir, MBBS Title: 3rd Year Fellow	RAK College of Medical Sciences
Altif Muneeb, MBBS Title: 3rd Year Fellow	C.M.H. Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry

Alumni

Graduate	Location after Fellowship
Mohsin Mughal, MD 2025 Graduate	Joined Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals – Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
Joseph Petro, MD 2025 Graduate	Joined UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital, Norwich, NY
Muhammad Shoaib Khan, MD 2024 Graduate	Joined Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN
Ahmed Khurshid Pasha, MD 2024 Graduate	Joined Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Wayne State University Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI
Amit Bansal, MD 2023 Graduate	Joined Cardiology at University of Rochester Medical Center Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY
Pranava Ganesh, MD 2023 Graduate	Joined Cardiology at United Health Services Heart and Vascular Institute, Johnson City, NY
Nabil Braiteh, MD 2022 Graduate	Joined Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Christiana Care Hospital, Newark, DE
Vincent Skovira, MD 2022 Graduate	Joined Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital, Warren, MI
Bilal Ahmed, MD 2021 Graduate	Joined Interventional Electrophysiology Fellowship at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Nasir Hussain, MD 2021 Graduate	Joined Cardiovascular Advanced Imaging Fellowship at Allegheny Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Umama , MD 2020 Graduate	Joined Advanced Heart Failure at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Mouhamed Amr Sabouni, MD 2020 Graduate	Joined Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Western Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Publications

Acute Myocardial Infarction-Mortality Trends in the United States
M Tayyeb, MS Mughal, H Mirza, M Asif, S Fatima, A Ghani, F Waqar, ...
Circulation 146, A13029-A13029

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) and takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM)-A potential association
MS Mughal, HM Mirza, A Bansal, X Weiyi, WA Mughal, S Ahmed, ...
American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 37, 100347

Alcohol-Related Cardiomyopathy-Exploration of Recent Mortality Trends in the United States
M Aun, M Mughal
Circulation 150 (Suppl_1), A4117310-A4117310

Outcomes in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) patients requiring red blood cell transfusion: A nationwide perspective
MS Mughal, HM Mirza, A Bansal, S Kumar, A Ghani, A Yarkoni, F Waqar, ...
Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Pressure Recovery in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Valve, Doppler-Catheter Discrepancy Phenomenon: A Case Series and Review of the Literature
PR Singh, H Mirza, MS Mughal
Annals of Clinical Cardiology 6 (2), 91-94

Variations in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Diagnosis Based Upon Hospital Status
MS Mughal, M Tayyeb, H Mirza, H Akbar, DM Anwar, MH Usman, ...
Circulation 146 (Suppl_1), A14352-A14352

Catheter-directed compared to systemically delivered thrombolysis for pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis
AK Pasha, MU Siddiqui, MD Siddiqui, A Ahmed… - Journal of Thrombosis …, 2022 - Springer

An Extremely Rare Presentation of Four Coronary Anomaly Patterns Originating from the Right Coronary Sinus
Nabil Braiteh, Wajeeh Rehman, Wajiha Ali, Owais Ahmed

Immediate Versus Staged Complete Revascularization in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Huzaifa Ahmad Cheema MBBS a, Karan Bhanushali MD b, Aruba Sohail MBBS c, Areej Fatima MD c, Alaa Hamza Hermis RN, PhD d, Anoop Titus MD e, Adeel Ahmad MD f, Vidit Majmundar MD g, Wajeeh Ur Rehman MD h, Samian Sulaiman MD i, Vladimir Lakhter DO j, Suzanne J. Baron MD, MSc k l, Sourbha S. Dani MD, MSc m https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2024.03.037

Ganglionated Plexus Ablation Procedures to Treat Vasovagal Syncope
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241713264

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.

Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship

Program Director

Afzal Rehman, MD, PhD, MBA

Curriculum

PGY-4:

PGY-5:

PGY-6:

Faculty & Fellows

Faculty

Afzal Rehman, MD, PhD, MBA

Keyoor Patel, DO

Sreekanth Kondareddy, MD

Rasha Aurshiya, MD

Owais Ahmed, MD

Alon Yarkoni, MD

Fnu Shailesh, MD

Hisham Kashou, MD

Michail Vitellas, MD

Ata Bajwa, MD

Nasir Hussain, MD

Fellows

Alumni

Publications

To Apply