Faculty

Brief Bio

Beeletsega Yeneneh, MD
Beeletsega T. Yeneneh, MD
Program Director

Medical School: Jimma University School of Medicine, Ethiopia
Residency: Internal Medicine, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, AZ
Fellowship: Advanced Echocardiographic Imaging, Mayo Clinic, AZ
Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology

Majid D. Biglari, DO, PhD, FACC
Majid D. Biglari, DO, PhD
Associate Program Director

Associate Program Director, Phoenix VA
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, UA College of Medicine – Phoenix

Medical School: Midwestern University
Residency: Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix
Fellowships: Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology, Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix
Board Certifications: Internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, vascular medicine

Michael Zawaneh, MD
Michael Zawaneh, MD
Associate Program Director

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine
Residency: Case Western University/University Hospitals
Fellowships: Cardiology, Case Western University/University Hospitals, and Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cleveland Clinic
Board Certifications: American Board of Internal Medicine, cardiovascular Medicine and cardiac electrophysiology

Ambar Andrade, MD
Ambar Andrade, MD

Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Residency: Washington University, St. Louis
Fellowships: General Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute, Advanced Heart Failure
Board Certifications: Internal Medicine 2012, Cardiology 2015, Advanced Heart Failure 2016 

Francisco Arabia, Sr., MD, MBA
Francisco Arabia, Sr., MD, MBA

Physician Executive Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Banner Health

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residency: Tulane University School of Medicine
Fellowships: UA College of Medicine – Tucson and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Board Certifications: Surgery, thoracic and cardiac surgery

Hassan Beydoun, MD
Hassan Beydoun, MD

Medical School: American University of Beirut
Residency: ICAHN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Fellowship: University of Arizona COM-Phoenix
Boards: Internal Medicine, Echocardiography

I – Hui “Ann” Chiang, MD
I – Hui “Ann” Chiang, MD

Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas Medical School
Residency: University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas
Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine
Board Certifications: Internal medicine, cardiology, echocardiology, interventional cardiology

Marvin H. Eng, MD
Marvin H. Eng, MD

Medical School: Wayne State University
Residency: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Interventional Cardiology and Structural Heart, Scripps Clinic – Torrey Pines
Board Certifications: Internal medicine, cardiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral endovascular interventional and adult congenital heart disease.

Philip A. Gideon, MD
Philip A. Gideon, MD

Medical School: Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara; Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico
Internship: Mercy Hospital
Residency: West Suburban Hospital
Fellowships: Postdoctoral Research and Cardiology, University of Tennessee, as well as Cardiology, Columbia University St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Program
Board Certifications: Internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, nuclear, adult comprehensive echocardiology

Radha Gopalan, MD
Radha Gopalan, MD
 

Section Director, Advanced Heart Failure

Medical School: St. George's University School of Medicine
Residency: Internal Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Fellowship: Drexel University College of Medicine, Hahnemann University Hospital
Board Certifications: Cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology

Anantharam Kalya, MD
Anantharam Kalya, MBBS, MS
 

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Medical School: Bangalore Medical College
Residency: University of Louisville School of Medicine
Fellowship: Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Board Certifications: Advanced heart failure, cardiovascular disease

Ali Mehr, MD
Ali Mehr, MD

VA Core Faculty
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, UA College of Medicine – Phoenix
Director of Heart Failure Program, Phoenix VAHCS

Medical School: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Residency: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Fellowships: Cardiology, University of Texas Health Science Center (SA) and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, University of California San Francisco
Board Certifications: Cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology

Michael Morris, MD
Michael Morris, MD

Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Radiology

Medical School: Dartmouth Medical School
Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
Fellowship: Mayo Clinic

Farouk Mookadam, MD
Farouk Mookadam, MD

Medical School: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Residency: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Fellowship: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Board Certifications: Internal medicine, cardiology

Marc Silver, MD
Marc Silver, MD
 

Medical School: Rush Medical School, Chicago, IL
Residency: Rush University, Chicago, IL
Fellowships: Cardiac Pathology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH), Bethesda, MD Cardiology, Rush University, Chicago, IL
Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation

Wilber Su, MD
Wilber Su, MD
 

Section Director, Heart Rhythm Disorders

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: Mayo Clinic
Fellowship: Mayo Clinic
Board Certifications: Cardiovascular disease, electrophysiology 

Balaji Tamarappoo, MD
Balaji Tamarappoo, MD

Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Residency: Internal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Fellowships: Cardiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Cardiovascular Imaging, Cedars Sinai Medical Center 
Board Certifications: Cardiology

Roderick Tung, MD
Roderick Tung, MD

Chief, Division of Cardiology

Medical School: Northwestern University Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Electrophysiology, Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Board Certifications: Internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology

Ryan Ung, DO
Ryan Ung, DO

Medical School: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Bradenton, FL 
Residency: Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Internal Medicine Residency
Fellowships: Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Board Certifications: American Board of Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, Cardiovascular Diseases, Internal Medicine, National Board of Echocardiography, Diplomate-Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography

Samel Unzek, MD, FACC
Samuel Unzek, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Director, Cardiac Clinical Operations and Quality

Medical School: Universidad Anahuac, Mexico
Residency: Internal Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland Medical Center
Fellowships: Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging, Cleveland Clinic
Board Certifications: Internal medicine cardiovascular disease, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology

Peter Weiss, MD
Peter Weiss, MD
 

Associate Director of Cardiology, Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix

Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington
Fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease and Electrophysiology, Stanford University Medical Center