Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology & Prevention Fellows

Current T32 Fellows

Zeynab Aghabazaz, PhD

2026-Present

Zeynab Aghabazaz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Statistics from Shiraz University and was a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University before joining Feinberg as a postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on developing advanced statistical methods to better understand how cardiovascular disease risk evolves over time, particularly how patterns of medication use relate to long-term cardiovascular outcomes. She develops Bayesian modeling frameworks that jointly analyze longitudinal and time-to-event data while addressing challenges such as informative missingness and complex dependence structures. Her broader goal is to develop flexible and generalizable statistical methods that can improve risk prediction and outcome assessment across a range of cardiovascular and chronic disease studies.

Jaclyn Borrowman, PhD

2024-Present

Jaclyn Borrowman completed her PhD in Health and Human Physiology at the University of Iowa in 2024. She is passionate about improving the health of pregnant and postpartum populations in the US. Through leveraging epidemiological methodologies, she aims to further scientific understanding of the impact 24-hour movement behaviors, psychosocial stressors, and systems of oppression have on cardiovascular health in these populations. Further, she aims to develop effective interventions to improve cardiovascular health of birthing populations and translate these findings to inform clinical practice or health policies that promote female cardiovascular health equitably across the life course.

Former T32 Fellows

Name	Years Completed
Faraz Ahmad, MD	2015-2017
Tiwaloluwa Ajibewa, PhD	2021-2023
Alexander Zheutlin, MS, MD	2025-2026
Norrina Allen, PhD, MPH	2009-2011
Michael Bancks, PhD	2016-2018
Jarett D. Berry, MD, MSCI	2005-2008
Robert Booker, PhD, MS	2021-2023
Joshua Bundy, PhD, MPH	2017-2019
Juan Bustos, MD	2011-2013
Chintan Desai, MD	2011-2013
Steven Driver, MD, MPH	2014-2015
Arlene Hankinson, MD	2006-2007
Rosalba Hernandez, PhD	2012-2014
Mark Huffman, MD, MPH	2010-2011
Kunal Karmali, MD, MSCI	2014-2016
Kiarri N. Kershaw, PhD	2010-2012
Andrea T. Kozak, PhD	2005-2007
Elizabeth B. Lynch, PhD	2004-2007
Stephanie Mayne, PhD	2017-2018
Rosenda Murillo, PhD	2012-2014
Sarah Nadimpalli, RN, PhD	2014-2015
Olusola Orimoloye, MD, MPH	2024-2026
Lauren Pageau, PhD	2023-2025
Jay Nitin Patel, MD	2018-2019
Amanda Marma Perak, MD	2016-2018
Aryn Phillips, PhD, MPH	2020-2022
Tamar Polonsky, MD, MSCI	2009-2011
Konrad T. Sawicki, MD, PhD	2022-2024
Christina Shay, PhD, MA	2009-2011
Sabira Taher, PhD, MPH	2020-2022
Yacob Tedla, PhD, MSc	2015-2017
Neela Thangada, MD	2022- 2024
John Wilkins, MD, MS	2011-2012
Veronica Womack, PhD	2012-2014
Yuichiro Yano, MD, PhD	2013-2016