Faculty

Brief Bio

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

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

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

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

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

Radha Gopalan, MD
Radha Gopalan, MD
 

Program Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

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