Lab Members
Meet the Shah Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator

Sanjiv Shah, MD
Stone Endowed Professor of Medicine
Director of Research, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Director, Northwestern HFpEF Program
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine - Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Read Shah's Bio
Senior Lab Members


Hamorabi Mkrdichian, CCRC, CPhT
Clinical Operations Manager
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Read Mkrdichian's Bio

Lauren Nelson, MS, RDCS, FASE
Technical Director, Northwestern University Echocardiography Core Laboratory
Technical Director, T1 Center for Cardiovascular Developmental Therapeutics
Department of Medicine-Cardiology
Read Nelson's Bio

Postdoctoral Fellow



Medical and PhD Students


Exercise Physiologist

Nurse/Nurse Coordinator and PA

Research Sonographers




Technical Staff


Study Coordinators



Daniel Roshevsky, MS, CCRC
Clinical Research Project Manager-Heart Failure
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Clinical Trials Unit
Read Roshevsky's Bio
Program Assistants
Brenda Guevara
Program Assistant


Northwestern Faculty Collaborators


Matthew Feinstein
Assistant Professor of Medicine Cardiology and Preventive Medicine - Epidemiology




Ravi B. Patel, MD
Clinical Cardiology and T32 Research Fellow
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Arjun Sinha, MD
Advanced Cardiovascular Research Fellowship

Jane Wilcox, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine-Cardiology
Director Myocardial Recovery Program
Lab Alumni

Katie (Small) Wochos, MA
Clinical Research Manager
2008 - 2011

Frank Aguilar

Megan Bach
Research Study Assistant

Mallory Beckemeyer, MHA
Program Coordinator
2017 - 2018

Jacob Burns
Medical Resident

Jeanette Cheng
Research Study Assistant
2015 - 2017


Jessica Corona-Cox
Clinical Research Coordinator
2014 - 2017

Debra Dixon, MD, MS
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellow
2014 - 2015

Stephen Dvorak
Research Study Assistant


Pedro Giro, MD
Health System Clinician of Medicine (Hospital Medicine)

Sheano Gold, CCRC
Clinical Research Coordinator

Daniel H. Katz, MD
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
2012 - 2014

Joseph Kern
Research Fellow

David Klein

Lara Marteau
Visiting Scholar
2018 - 2018

Eva E. Martinez
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
2011 - 2014

Leslie Martinez
Research Study Coordinator
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institut

Frank Medina
Research Study Coordinator

Ariana Memishi
Program Assistant

Suzanne Oskouie, MD
Medical Student Researcher
2014 - 2018


Harnish Patel, MD
Research Fellow

Jay Patel, MD
NRSA T32 Post-Doctoral Fellow

Neal Pohlman
Clinical Research Coordinator

Vinny Polsinelli
Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellow

Shrungavi Ramanathan
Research Study Assistant

Haydee Ramirez
Research Study Coordinator
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute


Larissa Reinkensmeyer
Research Study Coordinator
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
2017 - 2019

Leah Rethy
Visiting Scholar
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellow

Michaela Ritz
Clinical Research Coordinator
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute

Cynthia Sanchez
Clinical Research Coordinator
Department of Medicine-Cardiology

Sandra Sanders-van Wijk, MD, PhD
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
November 2018 - May 2019

Andrew Sauer

Senthil Selvaraj, MD, MA
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
2011 - 2012

Dan Silverman, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Erik J. Simon, MD
Medical Student
April 2015 - May 2018


Ramsey Wehbe, MD

Sarah Wieser
Research Study Coordinator
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute