Profiles of Current and Former Research Track Fellows

Timothy Cashman, MD, PhD, is a first-year clinical fellow at UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center. At UMass Chan, Dr. Cashman has followed the 2+3+2 ABIM research pathway: two years of medicine residency, three years of bench research (with a half day per week of clinic), and two years of clinical cardiology fellowship. 

Dr. Cashman received his bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and art history from Bowdoin College. After his undergraduate education, he worked as a research technician with Drs. Caroline and Geoff Burns at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he investigated cardiac regeneration research in zebrafish. He subsequently completed his MD and PhD degrees at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he developed preclinical models of cardiovascular disease using engineered human cardiac tissues with Kevin Costa, PhD. 

When seeking residency and fellowship, Dr. Cashman was drawn to UMass Chan for its supportive and approachable environment as well as its clinical and academic rigor. He finished his two-year residency in 2019, then joined the lab of Chinmay Trivedi, MD, PhD, in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. With the support of Dr. Trivedi, he investigated the basic science of cardiac development and adult cardiac disease through the lens of epigenetics. He is drawn to epigenetics as it combines genetic and environmental risk factors in the development of cardiac disease, which he finds particularly relevant to the adult cardiology patient population. During his research years, he was funded in large part by the UMass Chan T32 Training Grant. After three and a half years on the bench, he is excited to be back to full-time clinical medicine during the final stage of his training.