U of A Cardiology fellows win Jeopardy contest at American College of Cardiology – Arizona Chapter
Three fellows in the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship won top honors in the competition in Phoenix and will be recognized this weekend at the ACC AZ Chapter Annual Meeting and compete at nationals in Chicago in March.
The team and its supporters after the Jan. 11 contest: Dr. Pervez; Sharanyah Srinivasan, MBBS; Iniya Rajendran, MBBS, MPH; Dr. Olagunju; and Dr. Butt. Chief fellow Sanjay Polisetty, MBBS, shot the photo.
Kudos to the University of Arizona Division of Cardiology fellows who won the American College of Cardiology – Arizona Chapter 2025 Fellows Jeopardy competition and will be recognized at the ACC-AZ Chapter Annual Meeting & Valley of the Sun Heart Symposium hosted this Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Gila River Hotel Convention Center at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler, Arizona.
The competition was held in Phoenix on Jan. 11. The winning team – Khurram Butt, MBBS, Abdulbaril Olagunju, MD, and Muhammad “Ijaz” Pervez, MBBS – will compete in the Jeopardy nationals competition during the ACC.25 Annual Scientific Sessions in Chicago, March 29-31. Drs. Butt and Pervez are program year 6 (PGY6) fellows in their third and final year of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship. Dr. Olagaunju (PGY5) is in his second year of the fellowship.
“It was fun!” Dr. Butt said. “Basically, we had a mix of questions from cardiovascular imaging, electrophysiology and general cardiology. It came down to electrophysiology. We just took the lead and kept it after that.”
Dr. Butt, who also did his internal medicine residency here at the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson and served as a hospitalist here for three years, added that everyone is excited to go to Chicago for nationals, where Nathaniel “Nathan” Kim, MD, a PGY5 Cardiovascular Disease fellow, had a poster accepted for the ACC national conference competition as well.
Dr. Rajendran, an assistant professor in the division, Sarver Heart Center member as well as a fellow in the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship Program, and Dr. Srinivasan, another PGY-6 Cardiovascular Disease fellow, drove everyone to the competition and helped cheer them on.