Alumni of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program at Morristown Medical Center include:
Raul Flores, MD
Graduation Year 2022
Advanced Heart Failure Fellowship
New York University
New York, NY
Firas Qaqa, MD
Graduation Year 2022
Private Practice Interventional Cardiologist
Riverside Medical Group, New Jersey
Ali Rahyab, MD
Graduation Year 2022
Private Practice Cardiologist
Hamilton Cardiology Associates
Director of Heart Failure at Hamilton Hospital, New Jersey
Shikha Sheth, MD
Graduation Year 2022
Private Practice Cardiologist
Affinity Heart Care and Attending Staff Morristown Medical Center, New Jersey
Mathew Schaikewitz, MD
Graduation Year 2021
Private Practice, New Jersey
Gerald Ngo, MD
Graduation Year 2021
Private Practice, New Jersey
Maan Harb, MD
Graduation Year 2021
Private Practice, Alabama
Isla Babs Animashaun, MBBS
Graduation Year: 2020
Imaging Fellowship Morristown Medical Center
Ijeoma Ezeife, MBBS
Graduation Year: 2020
Private Practice, Maryland
Natasha Mamdani, MD
Graduation Year: 2020
Private Practice, Georgia
Ali Elfandi, MD
Graduation Year: 2019
Fellowship: Interventional Cardiology, Baystate Medical Center, Massachusetts
Sankalp Pathak, MD
Graduation Year: 2019
Fellowship: Interventional Cardiology, Hackensack Medical Center, New Jersey
Srijan Shrestha, MD
Graduation Year: 2019
Fellowship: Cardiac Electrophysiology, Tufts Medical Center, Massachusetts
Jenny Lam, MD
Graduation year: 2018
Career: Private Practice, New York
Reehan Shahzad, MD
Graduation year: 2018
Career: Private Practice, Texas
Michael Desiderio, DO
Graduation year: 2017
Fellowship: Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, Atlantic Health System/Morristown Medical Center, 2017-2018
Career: Private Practice, Pennsylvania
Oxana Ovakimyan
Graduation year: 2017
Fellowship: Interventional Cardiology, Brown University, 2017-2018
Career: Interventional Cardiologist, Morristown Medical Center, New Jersey
Glenn Dym, MD
Graduation Year: 2016
Fellowship: Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Case Western Reserve University Hospital, 2016-2018
Firas Kaddaha, MD
Graduation year: 2016
Career: Private Practice, Virginia
Neel K. Shah, MD
Graduation Year: 2015
Career: Private Practice, Virginia
Gurpreet Sidhu, MD
Graduation Year: 2015
Fellowship: Interventional Cardiology, University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital, 2015-2016
Career: Interventional Cardiologist, Morristown Medical Center, New Jersey, 2016- Present
Mubashir Ahmed, MD
Graduation Year: 2014
Career: Private Practice, Illinois
Gian Carlo Giove, MD
Graduation Year: 2014
Fellowship: Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2014-2015
Career: Private Practice, Florida
Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Ali Mahmood, MD
Graduation Year 2021
Private Practice, New York

Omar Safdar, MD, PGY-4
Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Michelle Sayad, MD, PGY-4
Medical School: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Residency: University of Maryland Medical Center

Dean Marella, MD, PGY 4
Medical School: Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Residency: Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center

Interventional Fellow
Firas Qaqa, MD, PGY-7
Medical School: Seton Hall University
Residency: St. Michael Medical Center/New York Medical College
Cardiology Fellowship: St. Joseph’s University Medical