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New Staff
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Cleveland Clinic Florida Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute Welcomes the Following New Staff Members
Sophia Bampoh, MD
Sophia Bampoh, MD, recently joined the staff of the Vascular Medicine Department at Cleveland Clinic Florida Weston Hospital. Dr. Bampoh completed her residency in internal medicine in 2020 and fellowship training in vascular medicine in 2021, both at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She earned her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in New Hampshire in 2017. During her fellowship training, Dr. Bampoh gained expertise in performing and interpreting the full range of noninvasive vascular diagnostic tests including Doppler ultrasonography, Duplex ultrasonography, and ABI. She is skilled in interpretation of axial vascular imaging (MR and CT arteriography imaging). Dr. Bampoh has participated in many volunteer community service programs, including health literacy and screening outreach programs in rural Ghana. She has several years of research experience, including 18 months spent as a research assistant in the Cardiovascular Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
She is board-certified in internal medicine and board eligible in vascular medicine. Her clinical interests include fibromuscular dysplasia, aortic aneurysms, peripheral arterial disease, DVT, pulmonary embolism, venous insufficiency and lymphedema. To reach Dr. Bampoh, call 954.659.5230.
Kushal Handa, MD
Kushal Handa, MD, recently joined the Cardiovascular Medicine Department at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Florida, Dr. Handa practiced at the Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Atrium Health (formerly Carolinas HealthCare System), in Monroe, N.C. Dr. Handa received his medical degree from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School (now Imperial College of Medicine) in London in 1986. He completed fellowship training in cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York in 1994. He completed fellowship training in electrophysiology at the University of Wisconsin in 1997.
Dr. Handa has held numerous leadership positions, notably as Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Intensive Care Unit at the VA Medical Center in Fargo, N.D., and Chief of Cardiology, Southern Region, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, where he was also a clinical associate professor of medicine. He was director of echocardiography at Meritcare Healthcare System in Fargo. Dr. Handa was Chief of Cardiology at Union Hospital in Monroe, N.C., and Director of the Southeast Region for Sanger Heart and Vascular Services. Dr. Handa has held several teaching positions and is a prolific researcher. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine and nuclear cardiology. To reach Dr. Handa, call 954.659.5290.
Research Fellows
Rene Aleman, MD
Rene Aleman, MD, joined Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute as a clinical research fellow in June 2021. Prior to this appointment, he had worked as a clinical research fellow for the Cleveland Clinic Florida Bariatric and Metabolic Institute since 2017.
Dr. Aleman received his medical degree from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala in 2016. His current projects include: The robotic cardiothoracic surgical experience: A systematic review of current applications; A retrospective analysis of the National Inpatient Sample database: Incidence in concomitant heart failure and morbid obesity; Robotic fluorescent guided surgery for lung sentinel lymph node mapping; and Lymph node cryotherapy harvesting.
Sinal Patel
Sinal K. Patel, MD, began work as a clinical research fellow in the Cleveland Clinic Florida Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute in July 2021. Dr. Patel transitioned from clinical research fellow in the Department of General Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida leading research studies minimally invasive surgery. Her research is currently focused on cardio-oncology, ECMO support for patients with severe lung failure due to COVID-19, and rehabilitation of patients awaiting heart transplantation on mechanical circulatory support.
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