A week full of honors! 🏆✨ So proud of my husband; he officially graduated as Chief Fellow in Cardiology from the University of Oklahoma, was awarded the Lloyd and Ruth Rader Resident Scholarship as the most outstanding graduate from OUHSC, and received the incredible Gold

We spent the last week welcoming OU Internal Medicine Residency interns, and we are so excited for the energy they are bringing to their patients, OU Health, OKC VA, and our program. Looking forward to a great year with all our residents!

Dr. Khawaja Hassan Akhtar & Dr. Elizabeth Joy Trimble are this year's Lloyd Rader Award recipients! These OU Health resident physicians were selected for their exceptional clinical care, leadership, and research achievements ✨ OU Surgery Khawaja Hassan Akhtar link.ou.edu/46k8nzr

🏙️🌇🌃 View of downtown OKC from OU Medical Center

So proud of our team’s recent publication where we investigated the patient experience of breast cancer patients at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center! Very thankful for the mentorship of Shearwood McClelland III, M.D. of The McClelland Lab for guidance in this work!! OU DOM Resident Research OU Internal Medicine Residency OU College of Medicine OU Health

🔥 First RCT-only meta-analysis of PFA vs thermal ablation for AF ⚡ PFA = shorter procedures, less LA dwell time, less GA use 📍 No difference in recurrence, repeat ablation, or SAEs at 12 mo Read EHJOpen Editor-in-Chief academic.oup.com/ehjopen/articl… Taha Zaka Siddharth Agarwal (he/him) Zain Asad, MD, MS, FACC FAHA

AHA/ACC have released the 2025 High Blood Pressure Guideline, emphasizing prevention and early treatment to reduce cardiovascular disease risk. Read the Guideline in Hypertension & Circulation and check out our hub with commentaries and more: ahajrnls.org/4mlSNs4...

Excited to announce that our abstract has been accepted for the 6 minute PowerPoint presentation at CRF TCT 2025. Thank you to everyone for making this possible. Hemanth Reddy Sanjamala, MD Yusra Minahil Nasir Mohit Pahuja #TCT2025 Cardiovascular Research Foundation TCT Conference.

Excited to present my poster at #SOHO2025 on renal complications after CAR-T therapy. Grateful for the guidance and support of my mentor Taha A, MD Society of Hematologic Oncology (SOHO) OU Internal Medicine Residency OU College of Medicine OU DOM Resident Research OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center

Congratulations to Mary Zoe Baker, M.D., an OU Health endocrinologist and interim chief of the Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Division at the College of Medicine. Last night, Dr. Baker was inducted into the College of Medicine Hall of Fame 👏

#ASE2025 ✅ What did I learn today at ASE2025? ✅ Priscilla Wessly and colleagues found very low risk of pelvic radiation to interventional echocardiographers with proper shielding Renu David McNamara David H. Wiener, MD Thelsa Weickert Ritu Thamman MD Nadeen N. Faza, M.D. Enrique Garcia-Sayan, MD, FACC, FASE

Had a blast representing OU Internal Medicine Residency at SOHO 2025.

🎧 In this episode, Drs. Laura Onderko, Zain Asad, MD, MS, FACC FAHA & Aditya Bharadwaj delve into how FITs & early-career cardiologists can strategically build their research careers & assess whether academic medicine is the right fit. 🔗 bit.ly/4mbuLPr #ACCEarlyCareer #ACCFIT

So extremely proud of my co-chief Luke Sorensen for leading this endeavor in understanding the role of AI in GI oncology! Very grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with this team! OU DOM Resident Research OU College of Medicine OU Internal Medicine Residency OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center Ryan Nipp, MD, MPH, MBA, FASCO Vanessa Moore

Extremely important work being done at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center to enhance patient navigation and care coordination for American Indian & Alaska Native patients with cancer. Congrats to this amazing team on this work!! Very excited for what’s to come! Ryan Nipp, MD, MPH, MBA, FASCO OU DOM Resident Research OU College of Medicine

Thrilled to share that 3 of our abstracts have been accepted for Oral Presentation at the American Heart Association #AHA25! 🙌✨ Grateful to my mentors and collaborators for their constant guidance and support!

Grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on this work alongside such a dedicated and talented team.

Our new publication in Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 🧵 >740k CIED implantations: 👉 Active cancer linked to higher in-hospital mortality, MACE, bleeding, sepsis, and 30- & 90-day readmissions. 👉 Historical cancer showed ↑ AF-related readmissions. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/5

My 3rd #ASCOQLTY in the books! Feeling so #grateful to be a #FeaturedVoice at this meeting with this wonderful crew and leaving Chicago feeling #inspired from the impactful #CancerResearch and amazing people doing this work!

Thrilled to join the Academy of Teaching Scholars at the OU College of Medicine! OU Academy of Teaching Scholars Grateful to my mentors, Dr.Zain Asad, MD, MS, FACC FAHA and Dr. Nadig, for their constant guidance and support throughout my journey as a clinician-educator. Excited for the opportunities