Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship faculty & staff

Many of our full-time faculty – past and present – are graduates of our Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship program, and are known nationally and internationally. Our faculty's collective years of experience and expertise have positively impacted our graduating fellows, many of whom now have active practices in the Milwaukee area.

Our physicians have served in a teaching capacity as full-time clinical faculty for years, and are strongly committed to teaching and training fellows.

Program directors

Asad Ghafoor, MD, FACC
Program Director, Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship

Dr. Asad Ghafoor is a board-certified cardiologist and has special interest in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation and treating patients with biventricular failure.

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Nasir Sulemanjee, MD, FACC
Assistant Director, Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship

Nasir Sulemanjee, MD is a board-certified cardiologist who has a special interest in treating patients with heart failure. He has extensive training in diseases of the heart and blood vessels, with particular expertise in echocardiography and advanced heart failure, mechanical assist devices and cardiac transplantation.

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Fellowship faculty

John D. Crouch, MD

Cardiovascular & thoracic surgery

William Fischer, MD

Cardiovascular & thoracic surgery

Jacob D. Luthman, MD

Cardiology advanced heart failure

Eric Roberts, MD

Cardiology pulmonary hypertension

Adam Schuldt, MD

Cardiology advanced heart failure

Manmeet Singh, MD

Cardiology advanced heart failure

Eric Weiss, MD, MPH

Cardiovascular & thoracic surgery

Staff

VAD engineers

Ben Chapman
David Glowacki
Tracy Miller
Kathleen Princer
Kathleen Schultz

Psychologist

Jeffrey Lauzon, MD

Transplant & heart failure NPs

Jodi Burany
Lauren Groh
Christina Rivera-Sauld
Jessica Takach
Katie Teichmiller
Jessica Tommerup

Pharmacist

Jon Godden

Transplant & heart failure RNs

Margaret Brooks
Jason Burback
Kristen Dwyer
Tammy Freichels
Chad Hockers
Carol Mayer
Linda Menzia
Cassandra Nitecki
Nancy Niebauer
Carrie Peets
Hillary Peterson
Ann Zeidler

Staff chaplain

Peg McGonigal

Social worker

Jennifer R. Ruszkiewicz

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