The team behind our research

Faculty Investigators

Sentara Cardiology

Matthew R. Summers, MD

Director, Structural Cardiology Research

Program Director, Structural Heart

Deepak Talreja, MD

Chief of Cardiology

Joshua Cohen, MD

Cardiologist at Sentara Cardiology Specialists

Parth Parikh, MD

Cardiologist at Sentara Cardiology Specialists

EVMS Cardiology

Raymond L. Benza, MD

Kaufman Academic Chair of Cardiology

Sentara Cardiac Surgery

Clinton D. Kemp, MD

Surgical Director, Sentara Structural Heart

Co-Director, Sentara Heart Valve Center

Trainees

Director, Trainee Structural Research

Nicholas Valle, DO

Director, Trainee Structural Research

Portrait — pending

Omar Saleh

Director, Trainee Structural Research

Research Coordinator

Team Members

Residents: Hira Sarfraz MD, Omar Jafar MD, Joshua Dolsen MD

Medical Students: Shinjer Li, Rishab Agarwal, Thomas Cook, Daiwik Munjiani, Connor McKechnie

Join the Team

We welcome fellows, residents, and medical students interested in research.