Thrilled to apply for #InternalMedicine in #Match2027! 🩺

Looking forward to connecting with fellow applicants, residents, and faculty!

Outside of medicine, I enjoy playing the piano 🎹, running, linguistics, and reading history.

Wishing everyone a great Match season! ✨

Fun times for @RazaniLab members with cameo appearance from Razani family to create 2 Marathon Relay Teams for the @PGHMarathon yesterday. Teams were appropriately called "#Lysosome Lightning" and "#FoamCell Fighters" 🤩. Guess which team won?

Excited to share my story in The Scientist’s Postdoc Portraits series—reflecting my journey from clinical medicine to translational cardiometabolism research.

🔗 the-scientist.com/postdoc-portra…

Honored to present at #AHA25 in New Orleans!
Grateful to share our work linking cholesterol, mTORC1, and immune dysfunction in residual CV risk.
Inspired by so many brilliant minds advancing cardiovascular science. Grateful to my mentor @RazaniLab for his guidance and support.

Honored to receive the Best Poster Award at Aging Institute Research Day 2025. Great to connect with so many inspiring scientists.
Thank you @RazaniLab @AgingPitt @PittDeptofMed — excited for what’s ahead!

Honored to present “Cholesterol-Driven Monocyte mTORC1 Activation and Autophagy Suppression in Hypercholesterolemic Patients” at #AHA25 in New Orleans, showing LDL-driven #mTORC1 activation & impaired autophagy may drive residual CV risk in #Atherosclerosis beyond LDL.

Check out our new commentary on #leucine and role in #CVD #atherosclerosis via #mtor #autophagy. Spearheaded by @XiangyuZ0321, @AliiAjam & @RazaniLab team we discuss next steps in limiting leucine's damage to the #macrophage & the atherosclerotic plaque.
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Among N=2530 w HeFH or ASCVD on max tolerated LLT with insufficiently low LDL-C (mean 98mg/dl), obicetrapib (CETPi) 10mg po daily v placebo led to 33% lower LDL-C at 3mo nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… @NEJM @NewAmsPharma #EAS2025

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Mitral annular disjunction is associated with a increased long-term risk of ventricular arrhythmias after mitral valve surgery
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#VHD #mitralvalve #cardiacsurgery #arrhythmias #cardiotwitter, @ESC_Journals, @escardio

Pregnancy in women with a prosthetic heart valve: is considered high risk, primarily due to the need for effective anticoagulation: results of a large prospective registry published.
doi.org/10.1093/eurhea…
#pregnancy #VHD #thrombosis #cardiotwitter, @ESC_Journals, @escardio

Honored to present our study at both #VascularDiscovery #AHA2025 and #DOMResearchDay2025

From bench to bedside—a cinical study linking LDL-C, mTORC1, and autophagy in atherosclerosis.

Grateful to my mentor @RazaniLab, our team, and @AnumSaeedMD for her vital clinical insight!

Great showing by @RazaniLab at #VascularDiscovery25 in Baltimore the past 3 days. Kudos to the efforts of @KathyMartinYale, the entire organizing committee, & @American_Heart for the excellent programming & opportunity to present our work. See you all next year in Bellevue, WA!

Wondered how #adipocyte #fat release #lipid via #lipolysis in #fasting, cold exposure? Multi-year @RazaniLab effort in @jclinicalinvest by postdoc maven @yushengyeh identifies #lysosome lipolysis (LAL) as major way on par with known cytosolic route (ATGL)
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Spilling the skinny on fat cells!

ASCI member Babak Razani @RazaniLab & team @pitt_medicine discover the process for adaptation to fasting and cold-induced lipolysis involves lysosomal lipolysis: buff.ly/ETdwLJt