Pegah Touradji, PhD

Dr. Frank is a critical care and advanced echocardiography trained cardiologist. She completed her medical school training at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine followed by residency and fellowship training (cardiology, critical care and advanced echocardiography) at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Her clinical time is split between the cardiac intensive care unit and the echocardiography lab. Dr. Frank has interests in medical education, particularly how critical care cardiology and echocardiography are taught to learners at different levels of training.

Dr. Wei Dong Gao is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include anesthesiology.Dr. Gao earned his M.D. from Harbin Medical University in China and his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. He completed post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins. He performed his residencies at University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Gao joined the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 2002.Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Gao was a research assistant in the Department of Medicine and Medical Physiology at the University of Calgary. He was a research associate in the molecular and cellular cardiology section in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins from 1995 to 1997.His research interests include myofilament desensitization in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, oxidative stress in heart failure, excitation-contraction coupling in ischemia/reperfusion and heart failure, anethesthetics and cardiac contraction, and cardiac muscle physiology.Dr. Gao’s work was recognized by Johns Hopkins with a Clinician Scientist Award from 2002 to 2004. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Association of University Anesthesiologists, American Heart Association, American Physiological Society, Society of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists, and the American Society of Anesthesiology. He serves on the Research Committee of Society of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists and is an Associate Editor of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Dr. Homeira Zahiri is a Clinical Associate in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology and Radiological Science. She received her medical degree from Islamic Azad University - Tehran Branch. She performed residencies at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in pathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center in nuclear medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in radiology. Dr. Zahiri completed a body imaging fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medicine.