Former Personnel

TraineeTrainee YearsShaw Lab PositionCurrent Position
Tina Fong         2007 – 2013Lab Manager Cardiac Sonographer, Kaiser Permanent, South San Francisco
TingTing Hong, MD, PhD2007 – 2013Postdoctoral FellowAssociate Professor, University of Utah
James Smyth, PhD2007 – 2014Postdoctoral FellowAssociate Professor, Virginia Tech
Danchen Gao, MD2008 – 2009Visiting ScholarProfessor, Zheijian University
José Sanchez, MD2009 – 2010Sarnoff Fellow                Clinical Instructor (Cardiology), UCSF
Kevin Chu, MD2009 – 2011Lab TechnicianUrology Resident, University of Miami
Jacob Vogan, PhD2009 – 2011Lab TechnicianChief Scientific Officer, CB Therapeutics
Pranali Bush, MS2010 – 2011Masters StudentGraduate Student, Northeastern University
Guson Kang, MD2010 – 2011Sarnoff Fellow                Cardiology Fellow, Stanford 
Rebecca Cogswell, MD2011 – 2012Postdoctoral FellowAssistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Mitchell Psotka, MD, PhD2011 – 2012Medical ResidentCardiologist, Virginia
Travis DeSa, MD2011 – 2013Undergraduate StudentRadiology Resident, Northwestern University
Van Selby, MD2011 – 2013Heart Failure FellowAssistant Professor, UCSF
Rob Wirka, MD2011 – 2013Medical ResidentInstructor (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University
Shan-Shan Zhang, PhD2011 – 2016Postdoctoral FellowScientist, 23andMe
Priscilla Chan, PhD2012 – 2013Postdoctoral FellowScientist, Relypsa, Inc.
Mariya Kalashnikova, MD2013 – 2014USC Medical StudentInstructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Caresse Vuong, BS2014 – 2015Lab TechnicianMedical Student, UCSD
Irina Epifantseva, PhD2014 – 2018Graduate StudentPostdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
Wassim Basheer, PhD2014 – 2019Postdoctoral FellowScientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
Andriana Nikolova, MD, PhD2014 – 2019Postdoctoral FellowAssistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA
Yu Xie, MD2015 – 2018Postdoctoral FellowAdvanced Heart Failure Specialist, Sutter Health/CPMC
Joseph Palatinus, MD, PhD2015 – 2020Postdoctoral FellowAssistant Professor, University of Utah
Ronit Zadikany, MD2016 – 2019Medical ResidentCardiology Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Chengang Wang, MD, PhD2017 – 2018Postdoctoral FellowAssociate Chief Physician, Beijing AnZhenn Hospital, China
Diana Hernandez, BS2017 – 2019Lab TechnicianLab Technician, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Steven Valdez2021 – 2022Lab TechnicianGraduate Student, Palatinus Lab, University of Utah
Rachel Baum2015 – 2021Graduate StudentPostdoctorial Fellow, Stanford
Miriam Waghalter2018 – 2020Undergraduate StudentGraduate Student, Weizman Institute