Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologists in District Of Columbia

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Biography: Dr. Evelyn Horn is the Director of the Perkin Heart Failure Center of Weill Cornell, specializing in Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Mechanical Circulatory Support.Patients referred to the Center include those with diagnoses of systolic heart failure, valvular heart disease, preserved EF heart failure; pulmonary vascular disease - idiopathic, associated and secondary.Evelyn M. Horn, M.D. is a graduate of Brown University, Mount Sinai Medical School where she also was a medical intern and resident. She completed cardiology at the Cedars Sinai/UCLA program and thereafter spent 2 years as a research fellow at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons understanding the beta adrenergic G protein complex in heart failure, the denervated heart and models of arrhythmias. She remained at Columbia University Medical Center in the Divisions of Circulatory Physiology and Cardiology Center for Advanced Cardiac Care where she was at various times, Director of the Circulatory Physiology fellowship program, Director of Clinical Services for Heart Failure, Associate Director of the combined Pediatric & Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Center and Director of the Pulmonary Vascular program of the Center for Advanced Cardiac Care. She also was the director of the High Risk Cardiac Obstetrical program. She received numerous awards as clinician educator, continues to participate in clinical research in the areas of cardiac and vascular remodeling in heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.The Heart Failure program provides management of advanced heart failure (both systolic and diastolic), congenital heart disease, perioperative management of conventional cardiac surgical patients (high risk patients and high risk valve surgery), and ventricular assist devices. The center also offers rare expertise in the management of pulmonary hypertension, including idiopathic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary hypertension associated with diseases such as connective tissue disease, congenital heart disease as well as a huge number of patients who have it in association with left heart disease and others have it associated with lung disease, certain hematological diseases or liver disease. Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure complicates the management of about 1/3 of the patients with heart failure. In many, right heart failure follows left heart failure but management of difficult "cases" may require a special expertise and understanding of the interdependence of the right and the left ventricles. If cases become complicated by secondary pulmonary hypertension or right heart failure, most of Dr. Horn's colleagues seek out the "right heart doctor," as she has sometimes been called or the combined left and right heart doc.The phenotype of heart failure has multiple etiologies, and not all heart failure behaves the same way. Because of the nuances and subtleties involved in advanced heart failure, she stresses the importance of the multidisciplinary, collaborative center. Moreover, Dr. Horn points to the center's expertise in identifying the appropriateness and the optimal timing of therapeutic interventions. "We have fantastic technologies and therapies available, but these may not be in every patient's best interest," she explains. "It is essential to understand when therapies will or will not work, and when one has to move beyond them, perhaps to mechanical assist devices or heart transplantation for heart failure and lung transplantation for pulmonary hypertension. If we wait too long, we may have missed the opportunity to treat a patient, but no one wants to resort to devices or transplantation before a patient absolutely needs it."Dr. Horn's clinical research interests have been in ventricular and vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension and heart failure. Specific areas have included RV imaging, pulmonary hypertension outcome studies, use of vasopressin in pulmonary hypertension, endothelial dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension, RV dysfunction in the perioperative patient population, complications of pulmonary hypertension therapy, and assessment of the non PAH pulmonary hypertension patient population. She has been actively involved in the care of patients with valvular heart disease and in particular comorbidities of ventricular dysfunction and/or pulmonary vascular disease. She has been actively involved in the care of patients needing ventricular assist device therapies as a bridging or destination device. Along with colleagues, she has authored papers in the field of newer therapies for pulmonary hypertension, epidemiological assessments of patients with pulmonary hypertension, genetics of pulmonary hypertension, and markers of vascular dysfunction. She has been involved in industry sponsored heart failure and pulmonary hypertension studies, industry sponsored investigator initiated studies and collaborative NIH studies in Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension. She has also been the liaison to high risk cardiac OB programs for the care of the complicated cardiac OB patient.Research and invited lectures have been presented at major National and International meetings. She is a fellow of the International Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute, helping to establish ISLHT Pulmonary Hypertension Committee and has been the recipient of teaching awards at Columbia University. Dr. Horn has created a NY Pulmonary Hypertension consortium, a network of a dozen specialists from the tri-state area, to encourage ongoing collaborative studies in pulmonary hypertension.

Biography: Mathew S. Maurer, MD - Dr. Maurer is a general internist and geriatric cardiologist with advanced training in heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He is the Arnold and Arlene Goldstein Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, where directs the Clinical Cardiovascular Research Laboratory for the Elderly (CCRLE). Dr. Maurer is a member of the Advanced Cardiac Care Center at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital Columbia Campus. He is the Director of the Cardiac Amyloidosis Program.He has published over 300 articles including peer reviewed manuscripts, reviews and book chapters. He was Chair of the American College of Cardiology's Geriatric Cardiology Member Section, which is the largest organization dedicated to advancing the care of older adults with cardiovascular disease. He was co-chair of the Steering Committee of the ATTR-ACT trial showing tafamidis was a safe and effective therapy for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. Throughout his career, he has promulgated an approach to older adults with cardiovascular disease that offers the best of both geriatric and cardiovascular medicine in which a comprehensive holistic approach to enhance functional capacity and quality of life is at the forefront of emerging techniques to address cardiovascular physiologic derangement that disproportionately afflict older adults.

Biography: Dr. Donna Mancini, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 71 years old. Dr. Donna Mancini, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Kelly Axsom, MD is a cardiologist, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with advanced heart failure including those requiring left ventricular assist device or cardiac transplantation. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, General Cardiology, Echocardiography, and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation. Dr. Axsom received her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center where she was also the Chief Medical Resident. She completed her Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at NYU Medical Center where she served as Chief Fellow. She completed her advanced training in advanced heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac assist devices and transplantation at Weill Cornell and Columbia University Medical Centers. Dr. Axsom is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care of the Columbia University Medical Center. Her clinical and research interests include the acute care and chronic management of patients with heart failure, comprising a combined goal of reducing hospitalizations and improving the transition of care from the in-patient to the out-patient setting. Dr. Axsom is leading the clinical initiative for the continuous hemodynamic monitoring of these patients at Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Noah Moss, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 42 years old and has been practicing for 16 years. Dr. Noah Moss, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside.

Biography: Dr. Maya Barghash, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 43 years old and has been practicing for 16 years. Dr. Maya Barghash, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Sumeet Mitter, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 42 years old and has been practicing for 15 years. Dr. Sumeet Mitter, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Arieh Fox, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 43 years old and has been practicing for 16 years. Dr. Arieh Fox, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Yevgeniy Brailovsky, DO is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 39 years old and has been practicing for 13 years. Dr. Yevgeniy Brailovsky, DO is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian.

Biography: Dr. Anuradha Lala-Trindade, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 45 years old. Dr. Anuradha Lala-Trindade, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Shudhanshu Alishetti is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and is affiliated with NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Chicago Medical School. He went on to complete a residency at University of Southern California, Cardiology Fellowship at California Pacific Medical Center, and Advanced Heart Failure at Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Gabriel Sayer is the Associate Director of Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory support at NewYork-Presbyterian. In this role, Dr. Sayer provides leadership and oversight for the comprehensive heart failure services provided across NewYork-Presbyterian, including the campuses in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Westchester. Dr. Sayer attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by Internal Medicine residency at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He completed Cardiology fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center and his Advanced Heart Failure fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to joining NewYork-Presbyterian in 2019, Dr. Sayer worked at the University of Chicago for six years, where he was the Associate Director of the Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation programs. In addition to his extensive clinical experience in all aspects of heart failure, Dr. Sayer has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles in the field of advanced heart failure. His research interests include the impact of of heart failure treatments on cardiac physiology, with a particular interest in the interaction between patients and mechanical circulatory support devices. https://youtu.be/vT5s8orP6V8

Biography: Dr. Kevin Clerkin is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and cardiologist, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with advanced heart failure. His practice includes those requiring left ventricular assist device or heart transplantation. He also attends as a cardiac intensivist. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology.Dr. Clerkin received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He completed additional training in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He also received a Master of Science degree in Patient Oriented Research/Biostatistics from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.Dr. Clerkin is an NIH funded clinical investigator and his research focuses on improving the quality of life and survival in heart transplant recipients. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, reviews, abstracts, and book chapters. His work has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals including Circulation, Journal of American College of Cardiology, Journal of American College of Cardiology Heart Failure, Circulation - Heart Failure, JAMA Cardiology, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Biography: Dr. David Bae, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in White Plains, NY. Dr. David Bae, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Lawrence.

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Biography: Dr. Nir Uriel, an internationally recognized leader in heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation, has been named Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian. Dr. Uriel will oversee heart failure programs at NewYork-Presbyterian's campuses in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Westchester, with a goal to increase accessibility of care for those with advanced heart failure throughout the New York area. Dr. Uriel was born and raised in Israel, where he attended medical school. After serving for four years as a physician in the Israeli Defense Forces, he then completed his cardiology residency and fellowship. In 2008, he moved to New York to pursue fellowships at NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia in cardiology, heart failure, transplant, and mechanical circulatory support and remained here as a faculty member until 2014. He then served as the Louis Block Professor of Medicine and Director of Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at the University of Chicago Medicine, where, in 2018, he and his Chicago team made history performing two tripleorgan transplants within 27 hours. A dedicated researcher with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Uriel has improved treatment protocols for patients with end-stage heart failure and has extended criteria for the use of ventricular assist devices and eligibility for transplant for high-risk patients, including those who are HIV positive. His research continues with a focus on interactions of medical devices, such as VADS, with the human body.

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Biography: Dr. McDonald graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in biology. He received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. McDonald remained at NYU after graduating from medical school to complete his internal medicine residency training there. He then completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Biography: Paolo C. Colombo is a cardiologist who specialized in treating patients with heart failure, cardiac assist device and heart transplant. Dr. Colombo is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. Dr. Colombo received his medical degree, magna cum laude from the University of Milan in Italy. He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He then specialized in heart failure and transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Dr. Colombo has been on ColumbiaDoctors faculty since 2002. He is the Sudhir Choudhrie Professor of Cardiology and serves as the Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support program. An internationally renowned investigator, Dr. Colombo has been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association as well as other research foundations. Dr. Colombo has published more than 260 manuscripts and presented his research all over the world. Dr. Colombo sees patients at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights.

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Biography: Dr. Goyal is a graduate of Phillips Academy-Andover, completed his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University, and received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. Dr. Goyal joined the Weill Cornell Medicine community in 2010 where he completed his residency in Internal Medicine and completed fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease as well as in Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology. During this time, Dr. Goyal also completed a Master's of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.Dr. Goyal is now a full-time faculty member at Weill Cornell Medicine, with joint appointments in the Division of Cardiology (as a member of the Perkin Heart Failure Center) and the Division of General Internal Medicine (as a member of the core health services research faculty). Dr. Goyal has a specific interest in caring for older adults with heart failure, especially heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (a subtype of heart failure that disproportionately affects older adults). In 2018, Dr. Goyal founded (and currently serves as Director for) the Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) Program at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which represents one of just a few programs across the country dedicated to HFpEF. Dr. Goyal is also the Director of the Cardiac Amyloidosis Program at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.Dr. Goyal has also been very active in research. He has led studies published in high-impact journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology; and has received significant extramural funding including research grants from the National Institute on Aging, the American Heart Association, and the New York Community Trust. In August 2020, Dr. Goyal received the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76) to develop and test a patient-centered strategy for deprescribing in heart failure.Dr. Goyal is also an active member of the American College of Cardiology, where he currently serves as the Chair of the Geriatric Cardiology Early Career Professionals Working Group; he Co-Chairs the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Heart Failure Working Group; and sits on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure.Dr. Goyal has a growing research program which is funded by the National Institute on Aging, the American Heart Association, and the New York Community Trust. Details of the Goyal Heart Failure Clinical Research Program can be found here: https://goyallab.weill.cornell.edu/research.

Biography: Dr. Kyung (David) Oh is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia Irving University Medical Center and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine and Echocardiography. Dr. Oh received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and completed medical school at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He completed his medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then completed his Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiology Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is a member of the America College of Cardiology and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant. Dr. Oh has received several awards such as the Leo M. Davidoff Society Teaching Award and the Martin Cohen Excellence in Training Award. He also has numerous publications in the American Journal of Transplantation and the American Journal of Cardiology. Dr. Oh is interested in all aspects of heart failure management, with a special interest in hemodynamics and device therapies. He is fluent in both English and Korean.

Biography: Dr. Kumudha Ramasubbu is a heart failurecardiologist and the Director of Heart Failure at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She received her medical degree from Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany. She went on to complete internal medicineresidency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundationand cardiologyfellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Her clinical interests include advanced heart failure, transplant cardiology, cardiogenic shock, and ventricular assisting devices.