Nirupama Ramkumar

Lisa Pabst, MD, joined the University of Utah School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Neurology. She completed her medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston prior to completing a combined Pediatric Neurology residency followed by a Pediatric Stroke fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University. Dr. Pabst specializes in the care of children with stroke and other cerebrovascular disorders as well as neurocritical care. Her research efforts focus on effective implementation of hyperacute systems of care for infants and children presenting with acute stroke to improve long-term outcomes. She has additional interest in utilizing acute telehealth networks to increase rapid recognition and assessment of infants and children presenting in rural locations with neurologic emergencies.

Ravi Ranjan, M.D., Ph.D., is chief of cardiac electrophysiology. His clinical interests include ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardias and supra-ventricular tachycardias. He also has keen interest in cardiac device based therapy like cardiac resynchronization therapy, ICDs and pacemakers. He has been a faculty member at the University of Utah since 2010 and is a tenured Professor of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, a cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Ranjan has built a large clinical cardiology and electrophysiology practice in Utah.

Dr. Mark Sarfati is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology. He graduated from Bucknell University with a BA in Biology. He received his M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Sarfati then moved west and completed a residency in General Surgery at the University of Arizona. During residency, he spent two years investigating endothelial cell biology in the lab of Dr. Stuart Williams. While at the University of Arizona, he was inspired to pursue a career in Vascular Surgery while working with Drs. Joseph Mills, Victor Bernhard, Glenn Hunter and Kenneth McIntyre. He moved to Salt Lake City and completed a fellowship in Vascular Surgery at the University of Utah under the mentorship of Dr. Peter Lawrence. Dr. Sarfati joined the faculty of the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1998. His clinical interests include the full spectrum of open and endovascular surgery. Dr. Sarfati particularly enjoys complex aortic, limb salvage and hemodialysis access surgery. In addition, he enjoys managing complicated conditions including aortic graft infection and tertiary vascular complications. He is a member of the University's multidisciplinary aortic treatment team.