
Soumya Patnaik, MD
Dr. Soumya Patnaik completed her medical school and obtained her MBBS degree from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, India. She finished her internal medicine residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia followed by fellowship in cardiovascular disease at UTHealth,…

Khashayar Hematpour, MD
Dr. Khashayar Hematpour graduated with a Doctor of Medicine from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran. He completed his residency at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, New York. Then Dr. Hematpour…

Matthew Van Norman, DO

Linda Pang, MD

Elena T. Cherian, MD
Dr. Cherian joined UTHealth Houston as an Assistant Professor in July 2021 and is actively involved in clinical patient care and resident/medical student teaching. She received her medical degree from Coimbatore Medical College Dr. MGR Medical University, India, in 2013….

Carissa C. Huq, MD
Dr. Carissa Huq is an internist at UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School where she practices as an attending and clinician educator on the internal medicine wards at Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital. She serves as Associate Program Director for the…

Sadia Ashraf, PhD
Dr. Sadia Ashraf obtained her Masters degree from University of Leeds UK and her Doctorate degree from University of Padua Italy. Her research is focused on investigating role of a transcriptional factor in regulating cardiac transcriptional networks. More specifically Dr…

Ariana Klein, MD
Dr. Ariana Klein is what we fondly refer to here as a “UTHealth Houston Lifer” after having completed all of her medical training at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. She started her academic career as a med-peds Chief Resident…

Callie S. Kwartler, PhD
