Bahaa Abdelghaffar, MD 

Bahaa Abdelghaffar, MD
Program Director

  • Graduated from Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University, Egypt
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation – Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

Currently serves as:

  • Hospitalist in the Department of Hospital Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Hasan Abuamsha, MD 

Hasan Abuamsha, MD
 Associate Program Director

  • Graduated from October 6 University Giza Governorates, Egypt
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at St. Vincent Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Completed Academic Medicine Fellowship – Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOMED), Ohio

Currently serves as:

  • Staff Hospitalist in the Department of Hospital Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Saaima Arshad, MD | Cleveland Clinic

Saaima Arshad, MD, FACP
Associate Program Director,

  • Graduated from Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

Currently serves as:

  • Medical Director, Westown Health Center, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, CWRU
  • Member of multiple committees, including the Medicine Performance
    Improvement Committee

Sudhir Dudekonda, MD 

Sudhir Dudekonda, MD
 Associate Program Director

  • Graduated from J.J.M. Medical College, Davangere, India
  • Completed Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New Jersey

Currently serves as:

  • Currently working as a Staff Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Staff for the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic
  • Medical Director for Respiratory Therapy Department - Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital
  • Physician Lead, Stepdown Unit - Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital
  • Medical Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program Richard E Jacobs Family Health Center, Avon, Ohio

Katherine Eilenfeld, DO

Katherine Eilenfeld, DO
 Core Faculty

  • Graduated from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Lewisburg, WV
    Undergraduate - Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Saint John Medical Center Westlake, OH
  • Completed Palliative Medicine Fellowship - MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland, OH

Currently serves as:

  • Associate staff Palliative and Supportive Care
K.V. Gopalakrishna, MD, FIDSA, FACP

K.V. Gopalakrishna, MD, FIDSA, FACP
Core Faculty

  • Graduated from Mysore University, Mysore, India, and The University of St. George's School of Medicine, Grenada
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune, New Jersey, and Cuyahoga County Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Completed Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Cleveland Veterans Administration, Cleveland, Ohio

Currently serves as:

  • Chief, Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Professor Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, CWRU

Rhyan Maditz, DO 

Rhyan Maditz, DO, MHSA
 Core Faculty

  • Graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Beaumont Health – Royal Oak, Michigan
  • Completed Nephrology and Hypertension Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Currently serves as:

  • Staff Nephrologist – Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Muhammad Ahmed Malik, MD

Muhammad Ahmed Malik, MD
 Core Faculty

  • Graduated from King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Rochester Regional Health/Unity Hospital, Rochester, New York

Currently serves as:

  • Hospitalist in the Department of Hospital Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Regina Pestak, DO

Regina Pestak, DO
Core Faculty

  • Graduated from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, OH
  • Completed Family Medicine Residency at Cleveland Clinic – Fairview Hospital
  • Achieved the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine designation by the ABIM and ABFM

Currently serves as:

  • Staff Hospitalist with the Department of Hospital Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • Site Director – Department of Hospital Medicine – Cleveland Clinic – Fairview Hospital

Divyajot Sadana, MD 

Divyajot Sadana, MD
 Core Faculty

  • Graduated from Dayanand Medical College and Hospital Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio
  • Completed Critical Care Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Completed Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Fellowship CQuIPS University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Completed Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Toronto - Sunnybrook Health Science Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Currently serves as:

  • Associate staff – Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Chair – Sepsis Committee – Fairview Hospital
  • Co-chair – Critical Response and Resuscitation Committee – Fairview Hospital

Gautam Shah, MD

Gautam Shah, MD
Core Faculty

  • Graduate from Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, India
  • Completed Internal Medicine Residency at Cleveland Clinic- Cleveland, Ohio
  • Completed Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship Training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – New York, New York

Currently serves as:

  • Medical Director of Education, Regional Cardiology
  • Medical Director of Echocardiography, Regional Cardiology
  • Cardiologist with the Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute