Justin H. Johannesen
Robert J. Morgan
Mohammed M. Algodi
Xiaodong Zhang
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 19.5pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Xiaodong Zhang, MD, PhD, FHRS received his medical degree at Qingdao University, China. Dr. Zhang completed his fellowship in cardiovascular diseases and cardiac electrophysiology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He earned his PhD degree in cardiac electrophysiology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He then come to US to finish his second cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #222222;">Dr Zhang is now Attending Physician at Montefiore Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He specializes in the treatment of complex arrhythmias, particularly in catheter ablation of atrial arrhythmias and ventricular tachycardia using cutting-edge technology. He is one of the few electrophysiologists in the country who performs these procedures without fluoroscopy, which avoids radiation exposure to both patients and staff. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Zhang has an exceptional ablation experience, he completed more than 2000 ablation procedures totally.</span></p>
Andrea Mignatti
Asma Khaliq
Carlos A. Gongora
<p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Carlos A Gongora MD is a Cardiologist, Cardio-Oncologist, Cardiac Imager, and Researcher at Montefiore Medical Center. He is a physician educated in Mexico and a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP). After studying at the BUAP he worked for 1 year as a primary care physician at a rural clinic in a small community in Puebla, Mexico. After that, he moved to the USA and worked as a program coordinator in a public health project in Boston, MA, promoting cardiovascular health and healthy eating. Then, he completed two years of cardiovascular research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, where he published and presented his research in various international conferences and received an award of excellence for his research. He finished his Cardiology fellowship in June of 2020 at Mount Sinai West and Morningside Hospitals. During his residency and fellowship, he continued with his cardiovascular research and has worked in a public health program in the Bronx. Also, during his cardiology fellowship he developed, presented and published different cardiovascular research projects. Due to his hard work, he was chosen as Chief Cardiology Fellow. During the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Dr. Gongora took care of critically ill COVID-19 patients with cardiac comorbidities in the Cardiac Care Unit. He participated in international conferences to discuss the latest observations, advances and therapies in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. He lastly finished an Advanced Cardiac Imaging and Cardio-Oncology Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Also he completed courses in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. While in Boston, Dr. Gongora has been involved in projects focusing on cardiotoxicity associated with immune therapies and anthracyclines among patients with cancer. Additionally, he has worked on projects focusing on medical therapy for patients with COVID-19 and their cardiac involvement.</span></p>
Jay J. Chudow
<p>Jay Chudow, MD is an attending cardiologist at the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart & Vascular care. He is interested in clinical cardiology, effects of time changes on cardiovascular health and applications of innovative technology within cardiology, such as artificial intelligence interpretation of the electrocardiogram.</p>
<p>Dr. Chudow grew up in the Hudson Valley. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Civil Engineering in 2009. He coordinated oncology clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before earning his medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine in 2016. He then came to Montefiore-Einstein for internal medicine residency training followed by cardiovascular fellowship training, where he served as a chief fellow, graduating in 2022. He participated in the inaugural class of the Montefiore-Einstein Innovation & Biodesign program in the 2020-2021 academic year. He was awarded the James Scheuer, MD Memorial Teaching Award in 2022.</p>
<p>His work on daylight saving time transitions and atrial fibrillation has been featured on national news, including National Public Radio (NPR).</p>
Effects of time changes on cardiovascular health
Applications of innovative technology within cardiology
Clinical Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology, Echocardiography, Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging
Effects of time changes on cardiovascular health, applications of innovative technology within cardiology. His work on daylight saving time transitions and atrial fibrillation has been featured on national news, including National Public Radio (NPR).
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong>Chudow JJ</strong>, Dreyfus I, Zaremski L, Mazori AY, Fisher JD, Di Biase L, Romero J, Ferrick KJ, Krumerman A. <em>Changes in Atrial Fibrillation Admissions Following Daylight Saving Time Transitions.</em> Sleep Medicine 2020 May; 69:155-158 PMID: 32088351</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 5.5in;"><strong>Chudow JJ</strong>, Jones D, Weinreich M, Zaremski L, Lee S, Weinreich B, Krumerman A, Fisher J, Ferrick KJ. <em>A Head-to Head Comparison of Deep Learning Algorithms for Identification of Implanted Cardiac Devices.</em> Am J Cardiol. 2021 Apr 1;144:77-82. PMID: 33383004.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 5.5in;">Friedman A, <strong>Chudow JJ</strong>, Merritt Z, Shulman E, Fisher JD, Ferrick KJ, Krumerman A. <em>Electrocardiogram Abnormalities in an Older Individuals by Race and Ethnicity.</em> J Electrocardiol. 2020 Nov-Dec;63:91-93. Epub 2020 Oct 4. PMID: 33152549</p>