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Yale cardiology fellow Ramya Sampath joins HeartWise Lab
She was a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow in 2017-18, studying palliative care delivery in India, and she has continued this work as a board member at Pallium India USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to and advocacy for palliative care in India.
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Staff Reporter - Sat, 22, Aug 2026
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Indian-origin physician Ramya Sampath is joining HeartWise Lab, a prominent collaborative research team from Yale School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic.
Ramya is joining the team as a postdoctoral fellow in Yale’s National Clinician Scholars Program.
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Ramya is a cardiology fellow at Yale, where she also completed an internal medicine residency. Her research interests lie at the intersection of cardiology, geriatrics and palliative care, with a focus on goal-concordant care, shared decision-making and improving cardiovascular care for older adults.
HeartWise said it is thrilled to have Ramya on the team and looks forward to her contributions and the exciting work and collaborations ahead.
Ramya’s interests include geriatric cardiology, ethics in advanced heart failure therapeutics and addressing global health disparities in cardiac care. At Yale, she was awarded the Dr. Peggy Bia Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching and the Samuel D. Kushlan, M.D. Award.
She completed a B.A. in anthropology at the University of Chicago and earned her M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
We’re excited to welcome @Laurmoreines, PhD, and @RamyaSampathMD, to the @heartwiselab!
— HeartWise Lab (@heartwiselab) August 20, 2026
Laura and Ramya are joining our team as postdoctoral fellows in Yale’s National Clinician Scholars Program. Both have collaborated with the HeartWise team on various projects in the past, and… pic.twitter.com/128rbUVinC
She was a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow in 2017-18, studying palliative care delivery in India, and she has continued this work as a board member at Pallium India USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to and advocacy for palliative care in India.
She has published extensively in medical and humanities forums, advocating for equitable access to palliative care worldwide. Her narrative work has also focused on improving the experiences of patients and family caregivers in the process of making medical decisions at the end of life.
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