Cardiovascular Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine Faculty Mentors
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
![Dr. Adam Burdorf](https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_images/education/residency/mentoring/burdorf.jpeg)
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
![Dr. Faris Khan](https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_images/education/residency/mentoring/khan.jpeg)
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!
![Dr. Shahbaz Malik](https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_images/cardiology/faculty/malik.jpg)
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
![Dr. Edward O'Leary](https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_images/education/residency/mentoring/oleary.jpeg)
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.
![Dr. John Schleifer](https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_images/education/residency/mentoring/schleifer.jpeg)
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
![Dr. Douglas Stoller](https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_images/education/residency/mentoring/stoller.jpeg)
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
![Dr. Nidhish Tiwari](https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_images/cardiology/faculty/nidhish-tiwari.jpeg)