Faculty Accolades

The following is a list of our local, state, national and international accomplishments, awards, recognitions, committee positions and other accolades.

 

Masters Designation        Authors of National Guideline Documents 
Miguel A. Quinones, MD, MACC
William A. Zoghbi, MD, MACC
Neil S. Kleiman, MD, MSCAI
       Miguel A. Quinones, MD, MACC
       William A. Zoghbi, MD, MACC
       Stephen H. Little, MD
       Dipan Shah, MD
       Sherif Nagueh, MD

Mouaz Al-Mallah, MD
• Treasurer, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ladder to president)
• Beverly B. and Daniel C. Arnold Distinguished Endowered Chair in Cardiology


Arvind Bhimaraj, MD
• Chairman/Committee, Early Career, Heart Failure Society of America
• Co-Chair/High-Risk/Surgery Committee, Heart Failure and Transplant Section, American College of Cardiology

 

Su Min Chang. MD
Customer Service Award, William S. Middleton Memorial VAMC Department of Veteran Affairs Chapter
• Member, American Society of Echocardiography Information Technology Committee
• External Reviewer, Cardiac Computed Tomography Appropriateness Use Criteria, American College of Cardiology

 

Bindu Chebrolu, MD
Women in Cardiology Committee (Co-Chair), Texas Chapter, American College of Cardiology
• Credentialing and Member Services Subcommittee, American College of Cardiology
• CME Committee, American Society of Echocardiography
• Cardiology FIT (Fellows in training) Jeopardy Committee, Texas Chapter, American College of Cardiology
• Committee Member, American Association of Physicians of Indian origin (AAPI)

Nadeen Faza, MD
• CME Editor and social media consultant, Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC Case Reports)
• Chair, Social Media, Texas Chapter, American College of Cardiology
• Member, Public Relations Committee & Twitter Journal Club Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography
• Member, Curriculum Design Committee, American College of Cardiology

 

Nadia Fida, MD
Member, Early Career Council, American College of Cardiology
• Chair, Webinars Working Group, ECC, ACC

 

Sachin Goel, MD
SCAI Emerging Leader Mentorship (ELM) Program Circle Member
• CRT 2019 Young Leadership Recognition Program

 

Mahwash Kassi, MD
Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group Grant
• Texas A&M Presidential Research Partnership Grant

 

Neal Kleiman, MD
• Master Interventionalist, Society of Cardiovascular Interventions and Angiography, 2018
• Journal of American College of Cardiology - Elite Reviewer, 2007-2008
• Established Investigator Award: The Platelet Colloquium, 2009
• Simon Dack Award for Scholarship: Journal of American College of Cardiology, 2009
• Co-Chair, ACC Annual Scientific Session, 2000 & 2013

 

Stephen Little, MD
• Vice President, American Society of Echocardiography (ladder position to President)
• Endowed Chair: John S. Dunn Chair in Cardiovascular Education and Research

 

Maan Malahfji, MD
• Associate Editor of the Methodist Debakey Cardiovascular Journal
• Rising Star Committee Member, CME committee, American Society of Echocardiography

 

Faisal Nabi, MD
• Chair, TX chapter ACC Imaging Section

Khurram Nasir, MD
• Member, Applied Health Innovation Consortium Workgroup (American College of Cardiology)
• Society of Cardiac CT, Arthur S. Agaston Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Award, 2020
• Board of Directors, American Society of Preventive Cardiology (ASPC)
• Board of Directors, Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography (SCCT), 2014-2017

 

Miguel Quinones, MD
• Editor-in-Chief, Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
• Master of the American College of Cardiology (MACC), 2012
• Board of Trustees, American College of Cardiology, 2004-2009
• American Society of Echocardiography Recipient Physician Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, 2012

Dipan Shah, MD
Beverly B. and Daniel C. Arnold Distinguished Centennial Chair in the Department of Cardiology
• Texas Chapter, American College of Cardiology, Co-Chair, Annual CME Meeting
• Publication Committee, Vice-Chair, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)

Barry Trachtenberg, MD
Chair, Heart Failure Section of Texas Chapter, American College of Cardiology
• Co-Chair, Educational Planning Committee, Texas Chapter, American College of Cardiology

William Zoghbi, MD
• Master of the American College of Cardiology (MACC)
• President, American Society of Echocardiography, 2008-2009
• President, American College of Cardiology, 2012-2013
• Board of Trustees, American College of Cardiology, 2001-2015

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