Cardiovascular Medicine

Adam Burdorf, DO

Career and Research Mentor
Medical School: Des Moines University | Residency: UNMC | Fellowship: UNMC
Career Interests: Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation; Clinically, mechanical circulatory support and invasive hemodynamics, Research (LVAD), Teaching (Associate Program Director, M1 Core lectures), Quality Outcomes
Personal: exercise and coaching (11U fast pitch), spending time with my wife and 5 children, traveling, our family is obsessed with Disney World, watching movies

Cason Christensen, MD

Career Mentor
Medical School: UNMC | Residency: UNMC | Fellowship: UNMC
Career Interests: General cardiology

Kali Gagnon, DO

Career and Research Mentor
Medical School: LECOM, Bradendon, FL | Residency: UNMC | Fellowship: UNMC
Career Interests: Interested in all things Cardiology (Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular disease, arrhythmias) and Women's health
Personal: Love to play volleyball and softball. I am a known "Disney Adult" and can probably answer Disney trivia questions without issues. I enjoy painting and crafting. My husband and I enjoy going on RV camping trips with our two young children and our 70-pound dog.

Faris Khan, MD

Career and Research Mentor
Medical School: Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan | Residency: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | Fellowship: Penn State Hershey Medical Center and University of California San Diego
Career Interests: Mentoring, outcomes based clinical research, teaching, telemedicine, mentoring physicians from developing countries towards residency/fellowship
Personal: Music, cooking, baking, learning new skills, traveling

Scott Lundgren, DO, MS

Career and Research Mentor
Medical School: Des Moines University | Residency: UNMC | Fellowship: UNMC
Career Interests: Cardiovascular Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Academic Medicine, Optimizing outcomes in heart failure populations
Personal: Spending time with family, travel, sports, funny things

Shahbaz Malik, MD, MBBS

Research Mentor
Medical School: Khyber Medical College Pakistan | Residency: The University of North Dakota | Fellowship: UNMC
Career Interests: Structural Heart Disease and Interventional Cardiology
Personal Interests: Football, video games and movies!

Edward O'Leary, MD

Career Mentor
Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Science Center | Residency: Tulane | Fellowship: University of Texas HSC at San Antonio
Career Interests: Interventional cardiology and structural heart disease
Personal: Martial arts, guitar and exercise

John W Schleifer, MD

Career Mentor
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia (now August University) | Residency: University of Alabama - Birmingham | Fellowship: Mayo Clinic
Career Interests: Cardiology/Cardiac Electrophysiology, ECG education, arrhythmia treatment, pacemakers and defibrillators
Personal: Classical piano, travel, reading; I am very interested in mentoring.

Douglas Stoller, MD, PhD

Career and Research Mentor
Medical School: University of Chicago | Residency: UT Southwestern | Fellowship: UT Southwestern
Career Interests: Cardiac genetics, CHF, heart transplant
Personal: Time with kids

Nidhish Tiwari, MBBS

Research Mentor
Medical School: Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India | Residency: Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY | Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Career Interests: Echocardiography, cardiac imaging, atrial fibrillation, CT, population-based research
Personal Interests: Coffee, movies, pickleball

Cardiovascular Medicine