Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program | Meet Our Fellows

Categorical Fellows

First year

Caitlin Bowen

  • Hometown: Rochester, N.Y.
  • Undergraduate school: Cornell University
  • Medical school: Johns Hopkins, PhD in Human Genetics
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program
  • Academic interests: Cardiac genetics
  • Hobbies: Science fiction, quilting, biking, gardening with my cat

Nicole Ceneri

  • Hometown: North Haven, Conn.
  • Undergraduate school: University of Connecticut
  • Medical school: George Washington University
  • Post-graduate training: Children’s National Hospital (pediatrics)
  • Academic interests: CICU, single ventricle, heterotaxy
  • Hobbies: Golf, ice hockey, skiing/snowboarding, running with my golden retriever, and cooking and traveling with my husband

Molly Clarke

  • Hometown: Cumberland, R.I.; Falmouth, Mass.
  • Undergraduate school: Boston College
  • Medical school: Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
  • Academic interests: Imaging and inpatient
  • Hobbies: Running, sailing, and baking

Thomas Day

  • Hometown: Franklin, Tenn.
  • Undergraduate school: Washington & Lee University
  • Medical school: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program, Leadership in Equity and Advocacy (LEAD) track
  • Academic interests: CICU, health services research, access to care, health equity
  • Hobbies: Indoor gardening, running along the Charles, playing music, cooking

Cara Lachtrupp

  • Hometown: Stowe, Vt.
  • Undergraduate school: Barnard College
  • Medical school: Harvard Medical School
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program
  • Academic interests: I think I am interested in general cardiology, perhaps with an imaging and/or exercise component.
  • Hobbies: Hiking in my native Vermont, spending time with my puppy Gracie, and baking

Daniel Mulhall

  • Hometown: Omaha, Neb.
  • Undergraduate school: University of Notre Dame
  • Medical school: University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Post-graduate training: Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. (internship, residency, chief residency), Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C. (pediatric critical care medicine fellowship (chief fellow))
  • Academic interests: CICU, quality improvement, medical education, ethics
  • Hobbies: Disc golf, trivia, Survivor, running

Lindsay Thomson

  • Hometown: Clifton, Va.
  • Undergraduate school: College of William & Mary
  • Medical school: Boston University
  • Post-graduate training: University of Colorado
  • Academic interests: ACT
  • Hobbies: Hiking, skiing/snowboarding, antique furniture restoration

James Ting

  • Hometown: Holmdel, N.J.
  • Undergraduate school: Yale College
  • Medical school: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Johns Hopkins Hospital (hospice and palliative fellowship)
  • Academic interests: I am especially interested in further bridging the fields of palliative medicine and pediatric cardiology. I hope to further explore that collaboration in the fields of imaging (including fetal cardiology), advanced heart failure, and CICU.
  • Hobbies: Convoluted board games, going on a walk with his wife, Anna, and daughter Ahrin

Rachel Wyand

  • Hometown: Canfield, Ohio
  • Undergraduate school: Miami University
  • Medical school: University of Toledo College of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Pediatrics Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina
  • Academic interests: CICU, nutrition, ambulatory care, exercise
  • Hobbies: CrossFit, weight lifting, running, pickleball, cornhole, reading, baking

Second year

Kristina Chambers

  • Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
  • Undergraduate school: Dartmouth College
  • Medical school: Emory School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program
  • Academic interests: Inherited arrhythmias, EP
  • Hobbies: Traveling

Miriam Fox

  • Hometown: Weston, Mass.
  • Undergraduate school: Duke University
  • Medical school: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (master’s of public health); Boston Combined Residency Program, Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track (pediatric residency)
  • Academic interests: CICU, ACT, imaging
  • Hobbies: Running, hiking, baking, traveling (especially to anywhere with waves to surf), and exploring New England with my husband, 1-year-old son, and dog

Anna Martens

  • Hometown: Scarborough, Maine
  • Undergraduate school: Muhlenberg College
  • Medical school: Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Mass General for Children
  • Academic interests: Undecided
  • Hobbies: Running, soccer, skiing, surfing, family time

Joshua Mayourian

  • Hometown: Roslyn, N.Y.
  • Undergraduate school: Cooper Union
  • Medical school: Mount Sinai
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program
  • Academic interests: EP
  • Hobbies: Spending time with my wife and two kids, basketball

Sean Sanker

  • Hometown: Queens, N.Y.
  • Undergraduate school: New York University
  • Medical school: University of Florida College of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Brown University Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics
  • Academic interests: Community and ambulatory cardiology, preventive cardiology, ACHD, and transition of care
  • Hobbies: Preparing and sampling West Indian cuisine, exploring the waters and beaches of New England and the Caribbean

Kathryn Stack

  • Undergraduate school: Princeton University
  • Medical school: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Post-graduate training: Pediatrics residency at CHOP
  • Academic interests: ACT
  • Hobbies: running, cooking, hiking, golf

Alexander Tang

  • Hometown: Worcester, Mass.
  • Undergraduate school: Harvard University
  • Medical school: University of Illinois
  • Post-graduate training: Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Academic interests: Imaging
  • Hobbies: Trying new restaurants, cooking, collecting fountain pens

Nishma Valikodath

  • Hometown: Rockwood, Mich.
  • Undergraduate school: University of Michigan
  • Medical school: University of Michigan Medical School
  • Post-graduate training: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (pediatrics residency)
  • Academic interests: CICU
  • Hobbies: Running, cooking

Third year

Victoria Bradford

  • Hometown: Cape Town, South Africa; Weston, Mass.
  • Undergraduate school: Columbia University
  • Medical school: Harvard Medical School
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program
  • Academic interests: ACCU, medical education
  • Hobbies: Dance (ballet), reading historical fiction, hiking

Kathryn Dern

  • Hometown: San Diego, Calif.
  • Undergraduate school: UCLA
  • Medical school: UC San Diego
  • Post-graduate training: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (pediatrics residency)
  • Academic interests: Advanced cardiac imaging
  • Hobbies: Visiting National Parks, gardening, baking

Leanne Duhaney

  • Undergraduate school: Princeton University
  • Medical school: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Post-graduate training: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) (pediatrics residency)
  • Academic interests: Advanced cardiac therapies (ACT)
  • Hobbies: Reading, hiking, gardening

Deepak Gupta

  • Hometown: Mahwah, N.J.
  • Undergraduate school: Rutgers University
  • Medical school: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
  • Post-graduate training: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (pediatrics residency)
  • Academic interests: Exercise and outpatient cardiology
  • Hobbies: Baking, basketball, hiking

Karina Javalkar

  • Hometown: Cary, N.C.
  • Undergraduate school: UNC Chapel Hill
  • Medical school: UNC Chapel Hill
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program (pediatrics)
  • Academic interests: Advanced cardiac imaging
  • Hobbies: Singing, reading, cooking, travel

Christopher Teng

  • Hometown: Lexington, Mass.
  • Undergraduate school: Princeton University
  • Medical school: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Post-graduate training: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Academic interests: CICU, medical education, ICU arrhythmias
  • Hobbies: Volleyball, dance, cooking, karaoke

Hannah Tredway

  • Hometown: Gunnison, Colo.
  • Undergraduate school: University of Utah
  • Medical school: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
  • Academic interests: Imaging
  • Hobbies: Paddleboarding, reading, knitting/crocheting, Harry Potter trivia, and hanging out with my cats (Penny and Pepper)

Electrophysiology Fellows

‘Richard’ Clint Collier

  • Hometown: Albuquerque, N.M.
  • Undergraduate school: Whitman College
  • Medical school: University of New Mexico
  • Post-graduate training: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (internal medicine and pediatrics residency)
  • Academic interests: EP, sports, exercise physiology
  • Hobbies: Parenting, soccer, swimming, biking, road trips

Jonathan Su

  • Hometown: San Jose, Calif.
  • Undergraduate school: University of California, San Diego
  • Medical school: St. Louis University
  • Post-graduate training: University of California, Los Angeles (pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: Electrophysiology
  • Hobbies: Basketball, biking, piano, coffee shop hopping

Cardiac Imaging Fellows

Lauren Crafts

  • Hometown: Pennington, N.J.
  • Undergraduate school: Georgetown University
  • Medical school: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program, Boston Children’s Hospital (pediatric cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: Imaging
  • Hobbies: Running, Pilates, watching sports

Shanique Sterling

  • Hometown: Kingston, Jamaica
  • Medical school: University of the West Indies
  • Post-graduate training: University of Miami-Holtz Children’s Hospital (pediatric residency), Harvard Medical School-Boston Children’s Hospital (pediatric cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: Cardiac imaging — I love to image the heart (i.e. all things echo, cardiac MRI and cardiac CT-related
  • Hobbies: Traveling — experiencing new places, cultures and food, playing tennis and volleyball, cycling, going to sporting events and concerts, reading fictional novels and autobiographies, watching TV shows with my husband, and in general spending quality time with my family.

Benjamin Zielonka

  • Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Undergraduate school: Washington University in St. Louis
  • Medical school: University of Pennsylvania
  • Post-graduate training: Boston Combined Residency Program (residency), Boston Children’s Hospital (cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: Non-invasive imaging, clinical research.
  • Hobbies: Exploring new restaurants with my wife, Ally, chasing my son Owen around the green spaces in Brookline and Jamaica Plain, being disappointed by Philadelphia sports teams.

Preventive Fellows

Michelle Degen

  • Hometown: Huntsville, Ala.
  • Undergraduate school: Sewanee, The University of the South
  • Medical school: University of South Alabama
  • Post-graduate training: University of Louisville (residency), Yale University (categorical cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: Preventive cardiology
  • Hobbies: Running, reading, baking

CICU Fellows

Nora Alfakhri

  • Hometown: Basra, Iraq; Doha, Qatar
  • Undergraduate school: Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar
  • Medical school: Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar
  • Post-graduate training: University of Florida/Shands Children’s Hospital and Mass General for Children
  • Academic interests: CICU
  • Hobbies: Solidcore and barre exercises, reading, trying new bakeries/cafes

Joshua Feder

  • Hometown: Montreal, Quebec
  • Undergraduate school: McGill University
  • Medical school: University of Ottawa
  • Post-graduate training: Montreal Children’s Hospital PCCM, Hospital for Sick Children PCCM, Boston Children’s Hospital CICU
  • Academic interests: Respiratory physiology, cardiopulmonary interactions, mechanical circulatory support
  • Hobbies: Running, traveling and food

Uvaraj Periasasmy

  • Hometown: Salem, India
  • Medical school: PSG IMS&R
  • Academic interests: CICU
  • Hobbies: Cricket, badminton, and trail walks

Vickren Pillay

  • Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Undergraduate school: St. Mary’s University (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
  • Medical school: Medical University of the Americas
  • Academic interests: CICU, intrahospital transport
  • Hobbies: Packers football, sneakers

Interventional Cardiology Fellows

Aravinth Karunanandaa

  • Hometown: State College, Pa.
  • Undergraduate school: St. Louis University
  • Medical school: St. Louis University School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Levine Children’s Hospital (pediatric residency), Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (pediatric cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: Cardiac catheterization
  • Hobbies: Running, pick-up basketball, reading, exploring new restaurants

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellows

Charmaine Lam

  • Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Undergraduate school: University of British Columbia
  • Medical school: University of British Columbia
  • Post-graduate training: University of British Columbia (internal medicine, adult cardiology)
  • Academic interests: Adult congenital heart disease, transition from pediatric to adult cardiology care
  • Hobbies: Muay Thai, badminton, hip-hop dance

Michelle Moore-Padilla

  • Hometown: Miami, Fla.
  • Undergraduate school: Barry University
  • Medical school: Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University
  • Post-graduate training: The Ohio State University Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (internal medicine-pediatrics residency), Emory University (pediatric cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: ACHD, cross-sectional imaging, ACT
  • Hobbies: Cooking, foodie, Pilates, hiking

Maram Sati

  • Hometown: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Medical school: Medical school in Khartoum, Sudan
  • Post-graduate training: Doha, Qatar; Texas Tech University (residency); University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children in Cleveland, Ohio (pediatric cardiology)
  • Academic interests: Advanced cardiac imaging in preprocedural planning, identifying social barriers, ACHD
  • Hobbies: Charcoal portrait artist, active lifestyle, working out and traveling

Christopher Valle

  • Hometown: Rochester, N.Y.
  • Undergraduate school: Williams College
  • Medical school: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Post-graduate training: Massachusetts General Hospital (med-peds Residency), Boston Children’s Hospital (pediatric cardiology)
  • Academic interests: ACHD, CICU
  • Hobbies: Cooking, nature walks with my dog, golf

Advanced Cardiac Therapies Fellows

Joseph Stidham

  • Hometown: Bartow, Fla.
  • Undergraduate school: University of Florida
  • Medical school: University of South Florida
  • Post-graduate training: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (pediatric residency), Oregon Health and Science University (pediatric cardiology fellowship)
  • Academic interests: ACT, specifically heart failure in congenital heart disease
  • Hobbies: Movies, cooking