Women’s Cardiovascular Fellowship Faculty Members

Odayme Quesada, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Medical Director, Women’s Heart Center, Heart & Vascular Institute
Ginger Warner Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati

Women’s Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Role: Director and Primary Mentor

Bio: Dr. Quesada is Medical Director of the Women’s Heart Center at The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute, Ginger Warner Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health, and Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati. Dr. Quesada is a board-certified cardiologist with advanced clinical and research experience in women’s cardiovascular (CV) disease. She received her Medical Degree and Master of Health Science from Yale University School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Quesada completed a clinical CV fellowship and a National Institute of Health (NIH) T32 Cardiovascular research fellowship in women’s CV disease at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute and the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Quesada was recruited in 2020 to establish and lead as Medical Director the Women’s Heart Center at The Christ Hospital, Heart and Vascular Institute. Dr. Quesada was awarded a 5-year NIH K23 Career Development Award for her work to better understand the increased CV risk associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Dr. Quesada also leads numerous multicenter clinical studies to advance care in women’s CV disease at The Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education. She is an appointed member of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association committees on cardiovascular disease in women.

Shree Lata Radhakrishnan, MD

Women’s Heart Center Physician and Prevention Specialist

Women’s Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Role: Associate Director & Faculty Mentor – General Cardiology and Prevention Specialist

Bio: Dr. Shree Lata Radhakrishnan (pronounced Rah-da-krish-nan) grew up in Indonesia and India. She graduated from Vinayaka Missions Medical College in Pondicherry, India and completed her internship at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. Following this, she moved to the United States and earned a master’s degree in clinical investigation from Northwestern University. She then did her Internal Medicine residency at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, where she served as chief resident in her final year. After residency, Dr. Radhakrishnan served as an internal medicine hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston and as a part-time Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After this, she completed her fellowship in cardiology at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, where she was presented the Raja Dhurandhar Cardiovascular Disease Outstanding Fellow award. Dr. Radhakrishnan was motivated to pursue cardiology from a young age when she learned cardiac disease raged across multiple generations in her family. She strongly believes in patient-centric treatment, and informed and shared decision-making.

Timothy D. Henry, MD, FACC, MSCAI

Medical Director, The Carl & Edyth Lindner Center for Research & Education
The Carl & Edyth Lindner Family Distinguished Chair in Clinical Research
Director of Programmatic and Network Development
President 2021-2022, Society of Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions

Women’s Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Role: Faculty Mentor – Interventional Cardiology

Bio: Dr. Timothy D. Henry is the Medical Director of The Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education at The Christ Hospital. Prior to The Lindner Research Center, he was the Chief of Cardiology at Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and a Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA from 2013 to 2018, and the Director of Research at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Minneapolis from 2001 to 2013. He has published over 600 manuscripts and book chapters, has served on steering committees and as principal investigator for many large, multicenter research trials in acute myocardial infarction, refractory angina, and regenerative medicine with gene and stem cell therapy. He is principal investigator for two large STEMI registries, The Midwest STEMI Consortium and the North American COVID STEMI registry. He was the President of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) (2021-2022).

Wojciech Mazur, MD

Medical Co-Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic
Director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging

Women’s Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Role: Faculty Mentor – Advanced Imaging

Bio: Wojciech Mazur, MD, is a cardiac imaging and clinical cardiology specialist with The Christ Hospital Physicians – Heart & Vascular. He also serves as Medical Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic as well as Director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging at The Christ Hospital Health Network. Dr. Mazur has more than 20 years of specialized experience in cardiac imaging, including echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac magnetic resonance, and cardiac computed tomography. Dr. Mazur earned his medical degree in Poland before he came to the United States where he completed a residency and fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He has published more than 200 research articles, books, abstracts, and book chapters in the field of cardiology.

Danielle (Dani) Tapp, PhD

Research Associate/Science Writer/Program Coordinator, Women’s Heart Center

Women’s Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Role: Research Mentor

Bio:Dani joined The Women’s Heart Center in 2024 from her previous role as a Research Scientist at the University of Cincinnati. She received her BS in psychology from Purdue and MS and PhD in behavioral neuroscience from Miami University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and discovered a passion for scientific and grant writing. This passion, along with her interest in women’s health, led Dani to her current position where she focuses on scientific writing, grant writing, and data visualization. She looks forward to supporting the WHC fellows with their writing endeavors and research interests.

Michelle Hamstra, MS

Program Manager, Women’s Heart Center

Women’s Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Role: Fellowship Program Coordinator

Bio: Michelle received her BA in psychology from Miami University and MS in kinesiology from Georgia Southern University before starting her career in clinical research and program management at Cincinnati Children’s in the Heart Institute. She joined The Christ Hospital Women’s Heart Center in 2021 as the Program Manager where she oversees the program team and provides operational leadership and strategic programming expertise across the five pillars of the WHC.