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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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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Learn how to apply to the Aurora Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship program. Get information about candidate requirements and the application process.

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