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CURRICULUM VITAE

EMAD F. AZIZ DO, MB. CHB, FACC, FHRS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI

DIRECTOR ACAP CARDIAC & ELECTROPHY SIOLOGY RESEARCH CLINICAL CARDIAC ELECTROPHY SIOLOGY

AL-SABAH ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE MOUNT SINAI HEART

DATE OF PREPARATION : March 2nd

, 2016

PERSONAL DATA:

Name: Emad Farid Aziz

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt

Citizenship: US Citizen

Mailing Address: 12 Stegman Place,

Jersey City, NJ 07305-1414

Telephone & Facsimile: 201-434-3499

Mobile: 201-388-6666

E-mail: [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

ACADEMIC TRAINING :

August 2001 - New York Collage Of Osteopathic Medicine

May 2004 Old Westbury, NY. D.O.

August 1993 - ST. Joseph’s School of Cardiac Technology

September 1994 Paterson, NJ. RCIS, RCS

August 1982 - Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University

February 1989 Alexandria, Egypt. M.B. CH.B

L ICENSURE :

February 2011 New York State: 260476 (Active-2016)

mailto:[email protected]



E.F. Aziz, DO. MB. CHB. FACC. FHRS Curriculum Vitae 3/2/2016

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August 2011 New Jersey State: 25MB09057300 (Active-2016)

June 2011 California State: 20A12002 (Active-2016)

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING :

March 17-19th

, 2016 New Horizons in Heart Failure

Course Director: Angelo Auricchio,

LivaNova, Sorin Group USA, Inc

Nice, France

March 4-7th

, 2015 New Horizons in Heart Failure

Course Directors: David Hayes, MD; Angelo Auricchio,

Sorin cardiac Rhythm Management

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

June 9, 2014 Artic Front Master’s Program, CRYOABLATION

Course Directors: James Irwin, MD; John Harding, MD

Medtronic

Mounds View, MN.

December 16, 2013 S-ICD® System Training,

Course Directors: Bradley Knight, MD & Mark Kremers,

MD

BostonScientific

St. Paul, MN.

September 20-23, 2012 Heart Rhythm Society 19th

Board Review Course,

Course Director: N.A. Mark Estes III, MD, FHRS & David

E. Haines, MD, FHRS

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology CCEP Prep Course

Chicago, Illinois.

November 9-10, 2011 Advanced Interventional Left Heart Lead Implant Program,

Course Director: Seth J. Worley, MD

Lancaster General Health System

Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management

Lancaster, PA

October 18-19, 2011 Practical CARTO-3 System Workflow Mastery,

The Ethicon Endo Surgery Center

Biosense Webster

Cincinnati, Ohio

August 5-7, 2011 Heart Rhythm Society Scholarship,

Course Director: Joshua M. Cooper, MD

Emerging Electrophysiologists: Transition to Practice


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Washington, DC.

May 18-23, 2011 Biotronick International Fellows Scholarship Program,

Course Director: Josep Brugada, MD

Madrid, Spain

July 2009 – June 2011 Fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology,

Dual Accreditation Approved by AOA and ACGME

St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

New York, NY 10025

February 2009 – March 2009 Clinical Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure,

The Heart Failure Center for Advanced Cardiac Therapy

Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center

Bronx, NY 10467

July 2007 – June 2009 Clinical Fellowship in Cardiology,



New York, NY 10025

July 2005 – May 2007 Junior and Senior Resident, Internal Medicine,



New York, NY 10025

July 2004 – May 2005 Internship in Internal Medicine, Dual Accredited Internship

Approved by AOA and ACGME


New York, NY 10025

January 1996 – December 2000 Research Associate & Coordinator, Department of

Cardiology Participated in all Cath Lab trials including

SHOCK trial, EPILOG-STENT trial, TIMI11 study, OAT

trial and PARAGON. Principal Investigators: James N.

Slater, MD; Judith Hochman, MD.


New York, NY 10025

August 1993 – September 1994 Cardiovascular Technologist (RCVT)

St. Joseph’s Medical Center

Paterson, NJ 07503

March 1990 – July 1993 Resident in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Track

Gamal Abdel-Naser University Hospital Center

Alexandria, Egypt


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February 1989 – March 1990 Internship, House officer in Internal Medicine.

Alexandria University Hospitals

Alexandria, Egypt.

BOARD CERTIFICATION AND ELIGIBILITY :

July 2003 COMLEX I: Passed

January 2004 COMLEX II: Passed

February 2005 COMLEX III: Passed

July 2009 Board Certified American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine

August 2010 Board Certified American Osteopathic Board of Cardiology

August 2015 Board Certified American Osteopathic Board of Electrophysiology

June 2011 Certified Spectranetics Laser CVX-300 Lead Management

October 2016 Certificate: Basic Cardiovascular Life Support certified

October 2016 Certificate: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Certified

September 1994 Certificate: Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist RCIS

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIPS :

Heart Rhythm Society (Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society)

Cardiac Electrophysiology Society

Egyptian Society of Cardiology (ESc)

American Heart Association (AHA)

American College of Cardiology (Fellow of the American College of Cardiology)

American Osteopathic Association (AOA)

Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC)

European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI)


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American Academy of Osteopathic Medicine (AAO)

Egyptian American Medical Society (EAMS) (Elected President 2016-2018)

National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA)

New York State Osteopathic Medical Society (NYSOMS)

AOIA Osteopathic Political Action Committee Chairman’s Circle (AOIA-OPAC)

Council of Quality of Care and Outcomes Research American Heart Association (QCOR-AHA)

HOSPITAL & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS :

August 1993 – September 1994 Preceptor, Department of Cardiology

St. Joseph’s School of Cardiovascular Technology

Paterson, NJ 07503

November 1994 – December 2000 Chief Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS)


New York, NY 10025

January 1995 – December 1999 Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Research Coordinator

For Dr. James N. Slater, Dr. Judith Hochman (Shock Trial,

OAT Trial, EPILOG Trial, EPILOG-Stent Trial)


New York, NY 10025

January 2001 – June 2004 MI Team, Senior Member


New York, NY 10025

Participated in all Acute Myocardial Infarction & Primary

Angioplasty

May 2001 – May 2004 Preceptor, Department of internal medicine

Cardiology Course & EKG Classes for APEP “Accelerated

program for Émigré Physicians” Students, 2002, 2003,

2004 classes

New York Collage of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM)

Old Westbury, NY 11568

July 2004 – Present Clinical Instructor; Department of Medicine

St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital center


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New York, NY 10025

July 2004 – Present Creator and Coordinator: ACAP “Advanced Cardiac

Admission Program”, Department of Medicine, Division of

Cardiology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

New York, NY 10025

July 2005 – 2011 Fellow Hypertension Task Force


New York, NY 10025

July 2006 – Present Director ACAP Cardiac Research Program,

Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology

Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

New York, NY 10025

July 2006 – Present Director ACAP Volunteer & Émigré Physician Program,

Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology

Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

New York, NY 10025

February 2011 – Present Mentor AOA/AOF iLEARN Mentor Program

American Osteopathic Foundation

AOA/AOF Mentor Exchange

August 2011 – 2012 Clinical Instructor Department of Medicine

New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

Old Westbury, NY 11568

August 2011 – 2014 Assistant Professor of medicine

Department of Medicine,

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

New York, NY 10023

October 2011 – Present Director Electrophysiology Research

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology

Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital center

New York, NY 10025

October 2011 – Present Attending Physician, Cardiology & Electrophysiology

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology

Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital center

New York, NY 10025

October 2011 – Present Preceptor & Mentor Macaulay Honors College and

internships


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Macaulay Honors College

New York, NY 10023

September 2012 – Present Preceptor Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

Physical Diagnosis course

The City College of New York

New York, NY 10031

Sept 2014 – Present Member of the Interdisciplinary Zena and Michael A

Weiner Cardiovascular Institute

Mount Sinai Heart,

New York, NY 10023

September 2015 – Present Associate Professor of Medicine


Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY 10023

November 2015 – Present Visiting Attending


Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, NY 10023

TEACHING ACTIVITIES :

Didactic Lectures weekly on cardiac electrophysiology

topics to electrophysiology and Core fellows

Weekly didactic cardiac electrocardiography Rounds to

electrophysiology and Core fellows

Monthly Journal Club on cardiac electrophysiology topics

to electrophysiology and Core fellows

Supervisory role daily in electrophysiology laboratories,

during daily ward rounds and once a week in Outpatient

office

Cardiac care Unit rounds including didactic session on

cardiac electrocardiography

Cardiology Fellows Supervisory role during cardiology

weekly continuity Clinics

Internal medicine residents and cardiology fellows Mentor,

for numerous research projects, including abstracts and


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manuscript writing as well as presentation in national and

international meetings.

Bimonthly teaching rounds for the Electrophysiology

Laboratory technologist and nursing staff, geared toward

new innovations and Diagnosis and Therapy in preparation

for RCES and CEPS Examinations

HONORS , ACHIEVEMENTS & INTERVIEWS :

May 2016 Will be enlisted in the New York Times Magazine, Annual

New York SUPER DOCTORS for year 2016

March 2016 Elected presented to the American Egyptian Medical

Society (EAMS) for the term 2016-2018

May 2015 Enlisted in the New York Times Magazine, Annual New

York SUPER DOCTORS for year 2015

October 2014 Enlisted in the New York Times Magazine Annual New

York SUPER DOCTORS Rising Stars for year 2014

June 2014 Named to the Stereotaxis CENTURY club, which

recognizes the top robotic ablation experts in the nation

May 2014 Commencement as a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society;

F.H.R.S.

The HRS Scientific Session, San Francisco, CA, 2014

June 2013 Enlisted in the International Association of Cardiologists

(IAC)

May 2013 Selected to be enlisted in the New York Times Magazine

Annual New York SUPER DOCTORS Rising Stars for year

2013

May 2012 Chosen exclusively by Boston Scientific to implant the first

innovative INGENIO®

pacemaker, utilizing Minute

Ventilation Sensor for Chronotropic Incompetence in the

East Coast, second in the US, on May 8th

, 2012

March 2012 Commencement as a Fellow of the American College of

Cardiology, F.A.C.C

The ACC Scientific Session, Chicago, Illinois, 2012


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June 2009 Winner of the 10th

Annual Joan Barber Memorial Research

Award The New York Echo Society Meeting, June 2009.

May 2009 Winner of the Jay N. Cohn New Investigator Clinical and

Integrative Physiology Award.

The 13th

Annual Scientific Meeting of the HFSA, Boston

2009

May 2009 Winner of the Best Poster - Hypothesis Driven

Retrospective Research.

The 3rd

Annual SL/RHC Research Fair St. Luke’s-Roosevelt

Hospital Center, NY, April 2009

December 2004 Founder & Editor ACAP websites;

www.NYCardiologyPathways.Org &

www.NYArrhythmia.Org

St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY

May 2003 Top teaching Student Award, by APEP class 2004.

New York Collage of Osteopathic Medicine, NY

May, 2002 Excellence of Community Outreach Award

New York Collage of Osteopathic Medicine, NY

November 2000 Employee Recognition Award

St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY

September 1994 Academic Excellence Award

St. Joseph’s Hospital Center, Paterson NJ

June 1985 Honors in Anatomy, Physiology & Pathology Departments

Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt

May 1981 National Merit Scholarship for Graduate Education

Alexandria, Egypt

May 1981 State First rank in State Higher Secondary Examination

Alexandria, Egypt

EDITORIAL BOARD & ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR PEER-REVIEW JOURNALS :

Translational Medicine-Current Research – Editorial Board Member, 2011

World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases – Editorial Board Member, 2011

International Journal of Clinical Medicine – Editorial Board Member, 2011

http://www.nycardiologypathways.org/

http://www.nyarrhythmia.org/


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European Journal of Medical Research – Associate Editor, 2012

REVIEWER FOR PEER-REVIEW JOURNALS :

Archives Of Physiology And Biochemistry – Reviewer since 2014

Journal for Healthcare Quality – Reviewer since 2012

Journal of Cardiac Failure– Reviewer since 2012

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association – Reviewer since 2012

Chronicles of Young Scientists – Reviewer since 2011

Journal of American Osteopathic Association – Reviewer since 2011

International Journal of Cardiology – Reviewer since 2010

Journal of Clinical Pharmacology – Reviewer since 2010

Journal of Medical Case Reports – Reviewer since 2009

American Journal of Cardiology – Reviewer since 2009

American Heart Journal – Reviewer since 2008

Journal of Critical Pathways in Cardiology – Reviewer since 2007

Progress in Cardiovascular Disease – Reviewer since 2007

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS COMMITTEE , CHAIR , ASSOCIATE FACULTY & D IRECTORSHIP :

October 2007 Multi-Disciplinary Pathways For ACS Management in the Big

Apple 2007.

September 2009 ESCAPE 2009 Symposium: Novel Pathway for low Ejection

fraction and Sudden Cardiac death Awareness and Prevention

Eligibility.

March 2012 2nd

Annual Chilling in Manhattan, Voice of Survivors Program;

Focus on Women.

April 2012 2nd

Annual ESCAPE Sudden Cardiac Death Awareness

Symposium, The GAP in Identifying SCD Patients; the Role of the

ACAP Program.

September, 2012 Target Meeting’s, The 2nd

World Cardiovascular, Diabetes, and

Obesity Webinar Conference.

February, 2013 Chair and Associate Faculty, Cardio Egypt 2013, Cairo, Egypt

March, 2013 Associate Faculty, Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT)

2013, Washington DC.


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April 2013 Committee Chair and Faculty, 3rd

International Conference on

Clinical & Experimental Cardiology, the OMICS Group, Chicago,

2013

September, 2013 Associate Faculty, Biotronik International Fellows Meeting,

Chicago, 2013

March, 2014 Associate Faculty, Sorin Advisory Board Meeting, New York,

2014

November, 2014 Associate Faculty, Miracle on the Hudson Meeting, New York,

2014

June, 2015 Course Director and Associate Faculty, EP Attending Boot Camp:

Managing Patients on Your Own, New York, 2015

September, 2015 Course Director and Associate Faculty, Intro to Electrophysiology:

ICD Therapy: Indications, Actual Cases and Programming, New

York, 2015

February, 2016 Associate Faculty, Biotronik International Fellows Meeting,

Lecture and Wet Lab, Philadelphia, 2016

March, 2016 Course Director and Associate Faculty, Intro to Electrophysiology:

New Horizon’s in Heart failure Therapy 2016, New York, 2016

B IBLIOGRAPHY :

Original, Peer Reviewed Articles:

1. Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz, Sherryl Croitor, Olivier Frankenberger, Rajan Gurunathan,

Jeannie Albu, Nicholas Mezitis. Pathway for the management of Hyperglycemia in

Critical Care Units. Crit Pathways in Cardiol. 5(2):114-120, June 2006.

2. Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Avi Fischer, Jonathan S. Steinberg.

Translation of the RACE pathway for management of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter

into admission notes. Crit Pathways in Cardiol. 5(1): 15-17, March 2006.

3. Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Alan Rozanski, Marrick Kukin. Translation

of Critical Pathways for Acute Coronary Syndrome and for Acute Heart Failure into

Admission Forms and Discharge Planning. Crit Pathways in Cardiol. 4(2):59-63, June

2005

4. Delia Cotiga, Aysha Arshad, Emad Aziz, Sandeep Joshi, Tina Sichrovsky, Jonathan S.

Steinberg. Acute Conversion of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation during Dofetilide Initiation.

Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology 2007; 30:1527–1530.

5. Eyal Herzog, Olivier Frankenberger, Emad Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Sandhya Balaram, E.

John Nasrallah, Stanley Cortell, and Franz H. Messerli, A Novel Pathway for the


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Management of Hypertension for Hospitalized Patients. Crit Pathways in Cardiol

6(4):150-160, December 2007.

6. Ganesh Kamath, Delia Cotiga, Jayanthi Koneru, Aysha Arshad, Walter Pierce, Emad F.

Aziz, Anisha Mandava, Suneet Mittal, Jonathan S. Steinberg. The utility of 12-lead

Holter monitoring in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation for the identification of

nonresponders after cardiac resynchronization therapy. J Am Coll Cardiol, 2009;

53:1050-1055

7. Eyal Herzog, Emad F. Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Jonathan S. Steinberg, Suneet Mittal. Novel

ESCAPE Pathway for Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention. Crit Pathways in Cardiol

2009;8: 1–6

8. Emad F. Aziz, Sandeep Pulimi, Clenton Coleman, Dan Musat, Eyal Herzog, David L.

Coven, Mun K. Hong. Increased Vascular Access Complications in Patients with Renal

Dysfunction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Procedures Using Arteriotomy Closure

Devices. J Invasive Cardiol 2010;22:8–13

9. Eyal Herzog, Janet Shapiro, Emad F Aziz, Ji Chong, Mun K Hong, Dan Weiner, Richard

Lee, Gregory Janis, Yevgeny Azrieli, Barbara Velasquez, Leonida Lacdao, Suneet Mittal.

Pathway for the Management of Survivors of Out of the Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Crit

Pathways in Cardiol 2010;June(2)9:49-54

10. Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Girish N Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan, Narender

Annapureddya, Alexandre Benjoa, Eyal Herzog. The Association of The Friesinger Score

and Pulse Pressure in an Urban South Asian Patient Population: Pulse Pressure an

Independent Predictor of Coronary Artery Disease. J Am Soc Hypertens. 2010 May -

June;4(3):142-147.

11. Emad F. Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Carlos L. Alviar, Amjad Nader, Dan Musat, Ajay Shah,

Farooq A. Chaudhry, Eyal Herzog. Right Ventricular Dysfunction is a Strong Predictor

of Developing Atrial Fibrillation in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure Patients,

ACAP-HF Data Analysis. J Cardiac Fail October 2010. Vol. 16, Issue 10, Pages 827-

834

12. Fahad Javed, Shahzeb A Khan, Emad F Aziz, Taimur Abbasi, Ramya Suryadevara and

Eyal Herzog. Unusual towering elevation of Troponin I after ST-Elevation Myocardial

Infarction and intensive monitoring with echocardiography post-percutaneous Coronary

Intervention. J Med Case Reports. 2010 May 18;4(1):137.

13. Dan Musat, Emad F. Aziz, Jayanthi Koneru, Ganesh Kamath, Aysha Arshad, Suneet

Mittal, Jonathan S. Steinberg. Computational Method to Predict Esophageal Temperature

Elevations during Pulmonary Vein Isolation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2010 Jun 10

14. Jessica Lai-Ling, Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Electrocardiogram for Hiccups? Am J

Med (e-Pub ahead of printing) 2010 Nov.06.025

15. Emad F. Aziz, Fahad Javed, Balaji Pratap, Eyal Herzog. Strategies for the Prevention

and Treatment of Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Review. Open Access Emergency Medicine

2010:2 99–114


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16. Fahad Javed, Emad F. Aziz, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Girish Nadkarni, Shahzeb A

Khan, Alexandre M Benjo, Eyal Herzog, Franz H. Messerli. Association of Body Mass

Index and Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in the Elderly African-American Females.

Obesity, 2010 Dec 23. [Epub ahead of print].

17. Emad F. Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Fahad Javed, Balaji Pratap, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal,

Deborah Tormey, Olivier Frankenberger, Eyal Herzog. Early Administration of

Nitroglycerin in Addition to Diuretic Improve Mortality in Patients with Chronic Kidney

Disease Presenting With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure, a Two Year Follow-Up.

Hospital Practice (Minneap). 2011 Feb;39(1):126-32

18. Fahad Javed, Girish N Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan, Manpreet S. Sabharwal, N

Annapureddy, Alexander Benjo, Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog. The associations of the

Friesinger score and estimated glomerular filtration rate in an urban South Asian patient

population. Clin Nephrol. 2011 Apr;75(4):356-61.

19. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Maria E. De Benedetti Zunino, Fahad Javed, Deborah

Tormey, Olivier Frankenberger, Mun K. Hong, Eyal Herzog. Success in Implementing a

Hospital Wide Evidence-Based Clinical Pathways System for the Management of

Cardiac Patients; the ACAP Program Experience. Crit Pathways in Cardiol 10(1):22-28,

March 2011.

20. Emad F. Aziz, Carlos L. Alviar, Eyal Herzog, Juan Pablo Cordova, Joseph H.

Bastawrose, Chaithanya k Pamidimukala, Andre Tojino, Terrence S. Park, Dan Musat,

Marrick Kukin. Continuous Infusion of Furosemide Combined with Low Dose Dopamine

Compared to Intermittent Boluses in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure is Less

Nephrotoxic and Carries a Lower Readmission at 30-days. Hellenic J Cardiol. 2011 May-

Jun;52(3):227-35.

21. Emad F Aziz, Fahad Javed, Balaji Pratap, Joseph H. Bastawrose, Andre Tojino,

Chaithanya k Pamidimukala, Terrence S. Park, Sandeep Pulimi, Eyal Herzog, and

Marrick L. Kukin. Malnutrition as Assessed by Nutritional Risk Index is Associated with

Worse Outcome in Patients Admitted with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. ACAP-

HF Data Analysis. Heart Int. 2011;6(1):e2. Epub 2011 Jun 15.

22. Fahad Javed, Alexandre M Benjo, Manpreet S Sabharwal, Kiran Reddy, Girish Nadkarni,

Emad Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Dexmedetomidine use in the setting of cocaine induced

hypertensive emergency and aortic dissection. A novel indication. (Published online

ahead of print) Case Reports in Medicine, June, 2011.

23. Emad F. Aziz, Sandeep Pulimi, Balaji Pratap, Fahad Javed, Maria E. De Benedetti

Zunino, Deborah Tormey, Mun K. Hong, Eyal Herzog. Implementing a Pathway for the

Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome leads to Improved Compliance with

Guidelines and a Decrease in Angina Symptoms. J Healthc Qual. 2011 Jun 2. doi:

10.1111/j.1945-1474.2011 [Epub ahead of print]

24. Edgar Argulian, Dan G. Halpern, Emad F. Aziz, Seth Uretsky, Farooq Chaudhry, Eyal

Herzog. Novel 'CHASER' Pathway for the Management of Pericardial Disease. Crit

Pathways in Cardiol, Volume 10 - Issue 2 - pp 57-63, June 2011


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25. Eyal Herzog, Emad F Aziz, Janet Shapiro. Integrating Voices of Survivors into the

System of Care Post-Cardiac Arrest. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2011 Jun;10(2):113-4.

26. Emad F. Aziz, Carlos L. Alviar, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog. Triple Vessel Coronary

Artery Disease Presenting as a Positive Electrocardiographic Stress Test and a Negative

SPECT Nuclear Scan: An Unusual Case of Balanced Ischemia. Heart Int. 2011 Sep

29;6(2):e22. Epub 2011 Nov 18.

27. Emad F Aziz, Aleksandr Korniyenko, Balaji Pratap, Juan Pablo Cordova, Carlos L.

Alviar, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog. Mild Hyperkalemia and low eGFR, a Tedious Recipe

for Cardiac Disaster in the Elderly; an Unusual Reversible Cause of Syncope and heart

Block. Heart Int. 2011;6(2):e12. Epub 2011 Oct 26.

28. Dan G Halpern, Edgar Argulian, Alexandros Briasoulis, Farooq Chaudhry, Emad F.

Aziz, Eyal Herzog. A Novel Pericardial Effusion Scoring Index to Guide Decision for

Drainage. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2011 Jun;10(2):57-63.

29. Fahad Javed, Shahzeb A Khan, Emad F Aziz, Muhammad Shoaib Akram, Girish N

Nadkarni, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Zurish Ahmad, Alexandre M. Benjo, Eyal Herzog,

Eric Ayers. Association of Hypertension and Bone Mineral Density in Elderly African

American Female Population. J Natl Med Assoc. 2012 Mar-Apr;104(3-4):172-8.

30. Emad F Aziz, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog. Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Prognosis

in Acute Heart Failure. Invited Article for the Decompensated Heart Failure section of

Volume 8, Issue 3, of Current Heart Failure Reports, 2011.

31. Eyal Herzog, Jacqueline Tamis, Emad F. Aziz, Janet Shapiro. A novel program focused

on women survivors who were enrolled in a cardiac arrest pathway. Crit Pathw Cardiol.

2013 Mar;12(1):28-30.

32. Edgar Argulian, Franz Messerli, Emad F. Aziz, Glenda Winson, Vikram Agarwal, Firas

Kaddaha, Bette Kim Mark Sherrid. Antihypertensive Therapy in Hypertrophic

Cardiomyopathy American Journal of Cardiology. Am J Cardiol. 2013 Jan 19. pii:

S0002-9149(12)02570-2. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.12.026. [Epub ahead of print]

33. Edgar Argulian, Eric Bader, Patricia Chavez, Emad F Aziz. Irregular Supraventricular

Tachycardia. JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Nov 25;173(21):2001-3

34. Benjo A, El-Hayek GE, Messerli F, Dinicolantonio JJ, Hong MK, Aziz EF, Herzog E,

Tamis-Holland JE. High dose statin loading prior to percutaneous coronary intervention

decreases cardiovascular events: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2013 Nov 23. doi: 10.1002/ccd.25302. [Epub ahead of print]

35. Garcia DC, Benjo A, Cardoso RN, Macedo FY, Chavez P, Aziz EF, Herzog E, Alam M,

de Marchena E. Device stratified comparison among transfemoral, transapical and

transubclavian access for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR): A meta-

analysis. Int J Cardiol. 2014 Mar 15;172(2):e318-21

36. Benjo AM, Garcia DC, Jenkins JS, Cardoso RM, Molina TP, El-Hayek GE, Nadkarni

GN, Aziz E F, Dinicolantonio JJ, Collins T. Cilostazol increases patency and reduces

adverse outcomes in percutaneous femoropopliteal revascularisation: a meta-analysis of

randomised controlled trials. Open Heart. 2014 Nov 4;1(1)


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37. Anna Koulova, Zack Hillel, Emad F. Aziz. Unusual Pulmonary Vein Isolation Ablation

Complication Due to Contrast-Induced Nephropathy Facilitated by a Three-Dimensional

Computed Tomogram. The Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm management.

February 2015 - Volume 6 Number 2.

38. Benjo A, Cardoso RN, Collins T, Garcia D, Macedo FY, El-Hayek G, Nadkarni G, Aziz

E F, Jenkins JS. Vascular brachytherapy versus drug-eluting stents in the treatment of in-

stent restenosis: A meta-analysis of long-term outcomes. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv.

2015 May 11

39. Patricia Chavez, Franz H Messerli, Abel Casso Dominguez, Emad F Aziz, Tina

Sichrovsky, Daniel Garcia, Connor D Barrett, Stephan Danik. Atrioesophageal fistula

following catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: Systemic Review of Case reports. Open

Heart. 2015 Sep 10;2(1):e000257.

Articles Submitted & Invited Publications for Review:

1. Emad F Aziz, Alexandre Benjo, Daniel Garcia, Shashi Kumar, Wallacy Garcia,

Francisco YB Macedo, Cezar Benjo, Eyal Herzog. Post-operative Biatrial Pacing

Consistently Decreases Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized-controlled

Trial Meta-analysis. Invited Publication in the Surgical Supplement to Circulation, 2014

2. Emad F. Aziz, Fahad Javed, Bani M Azari, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Balaji Pratap,

and Eyal Herzog. A Major Gap Still Exists in Applying Published Guidelines for primary

Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death and Underutilization of Device Implantation; An

ESCAPE Database Analysis. Submitted to the Journal of American College of

Cardiology.

3. Emad F Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Chaithanya K Pamidimukala, Terence Park, Sadia Qadir,

Haitem Muafa, Pughal Gnanaprakasam, Rashmi Reddy, Urvi Pai, Eyal Herzog. Long

Term Outcomes of Atrial Fibrillation Therapies According to a Standardized

Management Pathway; an ACAP-RACE Registry Analysis. Submitted to Hospital

Medicine.

4. Alexandre M. Benjo, Shashi Kumar, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog, Orlando Santana, Emad

F. Aziz. Omega 3 supplementation decreases atrial fibrillation in cardiac surgery patients:

a randomized-controlled trial meta-analysis. Submitted to International Journal of

Cardiology for Review.

5. Emad F. Aziz, Carlos L. Alviar, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, Fahad Javed, Catalin Florita,

Sandeep Pulimi, Dan Musat, Juan Pablo Cordova, Hyun Kyung Rhee, David L. Coven,

Eyal Herzog, and Mun K. Hong. Arteriotomy Closure Complications in Diabetic Patients

Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization: Role of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Decreasing

Infection Risk. Submitted to American Journal of Cardiology for Review.

6. Emad F. Aziz, Luca Nai Fovino, Boyang Liu, Fahad Javed, Balaji Pratap, Eyal Herzog,

Marrick Kukin. Implementation of Novel Pathways for management of Acute

Decompensated Heart Failure Improves Guidelines Adherence Along With Decreases in

Mortality and Readmission: a Four Years ACAP-HF Analysis. Submitted to International

Journal of Cardiology for Review.


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7. Balaji Pratap, Eyal Herzog, Emad F. Aziz. Atrial Fibrillation in Peri-Myocardial

Infarction: What we need to know. Invitation paper from the JAFP Journal 2012.

8. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Terrence Park, Andre

Tojino, Joseph H. Bastawrose, Eyal Herzog. Octogenarians with Atrial Fibrillation Carry

a Higher Risk of Mortality and Stroke with Decreased Utilization of Anticoagulation, an

ACAP-RACE Analysis. Submitted to International Journal of Cardiology for Review.

9. Emad F. Aziz, Boyang Liu, Luca Nai Fovino, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Joseph H.

Bastawrose1, Terrence Park, Andre Tojino, Balaji Pratap, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog.

Women with Atrial Fibrillation Carries a Higher Risk of Stroke and all-Cause Mortality,

An ACAP-RACE Analysis. Submitted to International Journal of Cardiology for Review.

10. Emad F. Aziz, Fahad Javed, Juan Pablo Cordova, Balaji Pratap, Marrick Kukkin, David

Newmann, Eyal Herzog. Heart Failure Patients Admitted with Elevated Cardiac Troponin

Post Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Firing Carry the Highest Mortality Rates.

Submitted to Journal of Cardiac Failure for Review.

11. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratap, David Newman, Ashraf Fawzy, Eyal Herzog. Long Term

Prognosis for 2000 Patients Admitted with Syncope Using a Novel Pathway for

Management of Syncope in a Tertiary Care Center. Submitted to Journal of American

College of Cardiology for Review.

12. Emad F. Aziz, Jonathan Kahan, Balaji Pratap, Eyal Herzog, Donald K. Kotler.

Characteristics of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with HIV on HAART. Submitted

to International Journal of Cardiology for Review.

13. Daniel C. Garcia, Francisco Yuri B. Mercado, Alexandre M. Benjo, Emad F. Aziz,

Eduardo De Marchena. Catheter Based Renal Sympathetic Denervation for Resistant

Hypertension: A Randomized Controlled Trials Meta-Analysis. Submitted to

International Journal of Cardiology for Review.

14. Nadine Montemarano, Emad F. Aziz. Hybrid Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation. Cardiology

Research and Practice Journal 2013

15. Emad F Aziz, Balaji Pratap. Perimyocardial infarction atrial Fibrillation. Journal of

Atrial Fibrillation 2013

Presented & Published Abstracts:

1. Saihari Sadanandan, Jacqueline Tamis, Jackerpan Chaipromprasit, Emad Aziz, James

Slater. Clinical and angiographic predictors of CPK-MB release following coronary Stent

implantation. JACC 35:4A, 2000.

2. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Shadi Abdelnour, Bobocea Manuela Andreea Elena, Devi

Gopinath, Dan Musat, Ajay Shah, Danny Pudpud, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A Chaudhry.

Comparison of 85% Of Age-predicted Maximum Heart Rate, Heart Rate Reserve and

Rate Pressure Product for Risk Stratification and Prognosis in Diabetics: A Dobutamine

Stress Echocardiography Study. Circulation 2005;112(17):3354

3. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Ajay Shah, Shruthi Shah, Donna MacMillan, Siu-Sun

Yao, James Wilentz, Farooq A Chaudhry. Wall Motion Score by Stress


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Echocardiography is Superior to Angiographic Jeopardy Score for Risk Stratification and

Prognosis. J. Am Coll Cardiol 2006; 47(4):94A, 124A

4. Sripal Bangalore, Dan Musat, Emad Aziz, Bilal Ayub, Sabrina Sawhney, Danny Pudpud,

Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A Chaudhry. Prognostic Implications of Right Ventricular Ischemia

in Patients Referred For Stress Echocardiography. Circulation 2005;112(17):3353

5. Emad Aziz, Dan Musat, Sripal Bangalore, Ashraf Fawzy, Deborah Tormey, Olivier

Frankenberger, Eyal Herzog. Risk Assessment and Stratification for future cardiac events

in patients admitted with Acute Coronary Syndrome using a novel critical pathway and

its validation by Framingham Risk Score. J. Am Coll Cardiol 2006; 47(4):94A, 167A

6. Emad F. Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Dan Musat, Raffy Kahn, Ashraf Fawzy, Deborah

Tormey, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, James N. Slater. 10-year follow-up outcome of an

interventional revascularization strategy in patients with stable angina, using

conventional Bare-Metal Stent Angioplasty and/or Rotational Atherectomy. Presented at

CRT 2006 as a poster presentation.

7. Emad F. Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Dan Musat, Joseph Mathew, Stacy Vargel, Clenton

Coleman, Lance Weathers, Olivier Frankenberger, Eyal Herzog,. Impact of a Novel

Critical Pathway for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome leads to markedly

improved Compliance with Guidelines and decreased Angina Symptoms at 12-month

follow-up. J. Am Coll Cardiol 2006;47(4):268A-268A

8. Emad F. Aziz, Dan Musat, Sripal Bangalore, Clenton Coleman, Deborah Tormey, Eyal

Herzog. The Impact of the Implementation of a Novel Critical Pathway for Management

of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome on House staff Education to improve

Compliance with National Guidelines. Presented at the AHA 7th Scientific Forum on

Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, March

2006.

9. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Xiaoqian Zhang, Naoi Imai, Sanobar Parkar, Ajay Shah,

Danny Pudpud, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A Chaudhry. Role of Diastolic Dysfunction as

Measured by Left Atrial Size in Patients Undergoing Stress Echocardiography. Accepted

at ASE 2006.

10. Sripal Bangalore, Gayathri Kamalakkannan, Emad Aziz, Raffay Khan, Devi Gopinath,

Catherine Weinberg, Omar Weaver Pinzon, Sabrina Sawhney, Nilo Ayuyao, Ajay Shah,

Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A Chaudhry. Prognostic Impact of Renal Function in Patients

Undergoing Stress Echocardiography. Accepted at ASE 2006

11. Emad F. Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Dan Musat, Gamal Hassanien, Afag Seidova, Franz

Messerli. Evaluation of the role of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in

complementing the standard treatment of prehypertension. Presented at ASH 21st 2006,

as a poster presentation.

12. Nicholas Mezitis, Emad Aziz, Sherryl Croitor, Dan Musat, Olivier Frankenberger, Eyal

Herzog. Assessment and Validation of a Novel Critical Pathway for the Management of

Hyperglycemia in Cardiac Patients admitted to Coronary Care Units. Presented at the

42nd

EASD Annual meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006.


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13. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Rabia Arshad, Ajay Shah, Ramya Smitha Suryadevara,

Naohiko Imai, Sanobar Parkar, Deborah Cantales, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A Chaudhry.

Stress Echocardiography can Risk Stratify and Prognosticate Patients With Left

Ventricular Hypertrophy. Circulation 2006;II-368:1859.

14. Delia Cotiga, Aysha Arshad, Emad Aziz, Walter Pierce, Jonathan S Steinberg. Don’t Be

Fooled by CRT Device Counters in Patients with AF: Common Presence of Ineffective

Biventricular Capture as Determined by Sophisticated Holter Monitoring. Circulation

2006;II-473:2314

15. Aysha Arshad, Dan Musat, Delia Cotiga, Emad Aziz, Omar Wever- Pinzon, Farooq

Chaudhry, Jonathan S Steinberg. Comparison of Intracardiac Ultrasound of Pulmonary

Vein Flow with Transthoracic Echocardiogram for Diastolic Dysfunction Diagnosis.

Accepted as poster in AHA 2006.

16. Delia Cotiga, Raffay Khan, Emad Aziz, Arti Shah, Tina Sichrovsky, Walter Pierce,

Aysha Arshad, Suneet Mittal, Jonathan S. Steinberg. Correlation of Clinical Response to

Innefective Biventricular Capture as Determined by 12-lead Holter in Patients with Heart

Failure and Atrial Fibrillation. Submitted to ACC 2007

17. Emad F. Aziz, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, Sripal Bangalore, Dan Musat, Zlata Platzman,

Deborah Tormey, Ashraf Fawzy, Galen Leung, Eyal Herzog, David L. Coven, Mun K.

Hong. Role of Renal Function in Vascular Access Complication Rates in Patients

Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Procedures using Arteriotomy Closure Devices. . J.

Am Coll Cardiol 2007; 49(9):1B, 9.3-212-6B

18. Emad F. Aziz, Dan Musat, Delia Cotiga, Sripal Bangalore, Joseph Mathew, David

Djebali, Jorge Silva, Ashraf Fawzy, Eyal Herzog, Aysha Arshad, Jonathan Steinberg.

Complication Rate Following Device Implantation in Patients with Impaired Renal

Function. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007 49: 1A-41A

19. Emad F. Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Zlata Platzman, Dan Musat, Deborah Tormey, Galen

Leung, Ashraf Fawzy, Sari Weissbard, Eyal Herzog, David L. Coven, Jacqueline Tamis-

Holland, Mun K. Hong. Admission Glucose Levels is the Culprit in Vascular Access

Complications in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Transfemoral Coronary Procedures.

Presented at SCAI Meeting 2007.

20. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Ajay Shah, Seth Uretsky, Jorge Silva, Sanobar Parkar,

Sabrina Sawhney, Donna MacMillan Marotti, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A. Chaudhry.

Obesity Paradox in Risk Stratification and Prognosis of Patients Undergoing Stress

Echocardiography. J. Am Coll cardiol 2007;49(9):163A-164A,.

21. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Jorge Silva, Sabrina Sawhney, Ajay Shah, Ramya Smitha

Suryadevara, Shruthi Pranesh, Danny Pudpud, Naohiko Imai, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A.

Chaudhry. Prognostic Gender Differences during Stress Echocardiography. J. Am Coll

cardiol 2007;49(9):149A-149A.

22. Dan Musat, Aysha Arshad, Delia Cotiga, Emad Aziz, Sripal Bangalore, Tina Sichrovsky

Jonathan Steinberg. Monitoring of Esophageal Temperature during Pulmonary Vein

Isolation: New Computational Method for Assessment of Proximity of Ablation Site to

Esophagus. J. Am Coll cardiol 2007;49(9):17A-17A.


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23. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Jorge Silva, Sabrina Sawhney, Ajay Shah, R Suryadevara,

Danny Pudpud, Nylo Imai, Siu-Sun Yao, Farouk A. Chaudhry, Preload lnclependence of

diastolic torsional dynamics evaluated by two-dimensional ultrasound speckle tracking

imaging. J. Am Coll cardiol 2007;49(9):149A-149A

24. Sripal Bangalore, Sandeep Joshi, Farbod Raiszadeh, Shruthi Pranesh, Chris Cianci,

Emad Aziz, Sanobar Parkar, Danny Pudpud, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A Chaudhry.

Prognostic Implications of Concentric versus Eccentric Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in

Patients Undergoing Stress Echocardiography. Accepted as a Poster presentation at ASE

2007.

25. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Seth Uretsky, Sanobar Parkar, Chris Cianci, Sabrina

Sawhney, Donna MacMillan Marotti, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A Chaudhry. Risk

Stratification and Prognosis of High Risk Females Undergoing Stress Echocardiography.

Accepted as a Poster presentation at ASE 2007.

26. Joseph Mathew, Ravi Singh, Emad Aziz. Unusual Presentation of Acute Coronary

Syndrome in an HIV patient. Case Report submitted to the ACP 2007

27. Maria C Mirant-Borde, Lance Weathers, Jayanthi Koneru, Luis Chug, Pedro Rivera,

Emad Aziz, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland. Heart Disease Awareness in Women from an

Urban Community is lower than you think. Submitted to AHA 2007

28. Eyal Herzog, Sripal Bangalore, Donna MacMillan Marotti, Emad Aziz, Wallacy Garcia,

Ajay Shah, Sandeep Joshi, Wanda Castillo, Debbie Kim, Farooq Chaudhry. Feasibility

Trial of an Ultra-Portable Handheld Ultrasound: Are we ready for an “Echo

Stethoscope”? Submitted to AHA 2007

29. Dan Musat, Jorge Silva, Emad Aziz, Donna MacMillian, Danny Pudpud, Aysha Arshad,

Suneet Mittal, Farooq A. Chaudhry, Jonathan S. Steinberg. Atrial Strain Imaging of

Pulmonary Veins in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation, Oct 2007; 116: II_570

30. Emad Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Sripal Bangalore, Dan Musat, David Djebali, Wallcey

Garcia, Jaime Upequi, Deborah Tormey, Steve Lee, Geena Varghese, Olivier

Frankenberger, Eyal Herzog. Early Administration of Nitroglycerin in addition to

Diuretics Improve Mortality at 12 Month in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Treated for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. Accepted as a Poster Abstract in

Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) Congress Meeting, April 2008.

31. Emad Aziz, Raffy Khan, Sripal Bangalore, Afag Seidova, Dan Musat, Deborah Tormey,

Olivier Frankenberger, Nicholas Mezitis, Eyal Herzog. A Novel Pathway for the

Management of Hyperglycemia Facilitates a Rapid Intensive Glycemic Control in

Critical Care Patients Without Causing any Hypoglycemic Episodes. Circulation, Oct

2007; 116: II_850.

32. Dan Musat, Emad Aziz, Rimvida Obeleniene, Sripal Bangalore, Glenda, Winson, Vilma

Castandena, Claudia Musat, Farooq Chaudhry, Mark Sherrid. Impact of Acute Response

of Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy to Oral Disopyramide and Correlate of

Response. J Am Coll Cardiol 51 (10): A35. 1016-40

33. Emad F. Aziz, Catalin Florita, Sandeep Pulimi, Sripal Bangalore, Dan Musat, Hyun

Kyung Rhee, Maged A. Hana, Deborah Tormey, Steven Lee, Eyal Herzog, David Coven,


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Tariqshah Syed, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, Mun K. Hong. Antibiotic Prophylaxis in

Diabetic Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization and Treated with Closure Devices

Dramatically Decreases Infection Risk. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., March 11, 2008; 51: B23 -

B98.

34. Emad F. Aziz, Olivier Frankenberger, Natalie Slowik, Sunil Kumar, Dan Musat,

Deborah Tormey, Steven Lee, Costantine Albany, Isabele Krupska, Alexander Ritter,

Evan Schneidmesser, Saurabh Verma, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, Eyal Herzog. Hispanic

patients with an Intermediate TIMI Risk Score Carry the Worst Outcome When

Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome; a Local Experience from a Novel Pathway!

Accepted as a Poster Abstract in Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) Congress

Meeting, April 2008.

35. Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog, David Djebali, Olga Kuteyeva, Dan Musat, Deborah

Tormey, Steven Lee, Alexander Ritter, Evan Scheidmessar, Olivier Frankenberger,

Marrick Kukin. Early Diuretic Administration Combined With Admission B-Natriuretic

Peptide Level are the Strongest Predictors of Readmission at 30 Days in Patients Treated

for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Using a Novel Pathway. J Am Coll Cardiol 51

(10): A35 1016-8

36. Emad F. Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Sripal Bangalore, Jules Aljammal, Bhatia Vivek, Jaime

Upegui, Dan Musat, Steven Lee, Aaron Zigelbaum, Amanda Schneider, Anish Shah,

Olivier Frankenberger, Eyal Herzog. Early Administration of Nitroglycerin in Addition to

Diuretic Improve Mortality in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Presenting With

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure, a Two Year Follow-Up. J Am Coll Cardiol 51 (10):

A35 1016-1

37. Sripal Bangalore, Jorge Silva, Olga Kristof-Kuteyeva, Ganesh Kamath, Emad Aziz,

Sandeep Joshi, Shruthi Pranesh, Rajeev Joshi, Chris Cianci, Danny Pudpud, Siu-Sun

Yao, Farooq A. Chaudhry. Risk Stratification and Prognosis of Hispanic Patients with

Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease Referred for Stress Echocardiography. J.

Am. Coll. Cardiol., March 11, 2008; 51: A98 - A177.

38. Sripal Bangalore, Emad Aziz, Natalie Slowik, Shruthi Pranesh, Gangadhara Kabli, Sunil

Kumar, Olga Kristof-Kuteyeva, Sandeep Joshi, Siu-Sun Yao, Farooq A. Chaudhry. Risk

Stratification and Prognosis of Obese Patients Unable to Exercise Referred for Stress

Testing: Incremental Value of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography. J. Am. Coll.

Cardiol., March 11, 2008; 51: A98 - A178.

39. Ganesh S. Kamath, Delia Cotiga, Aysha Arshad, Emad F. Aziz, Anisha Mandava,

Suneet Mittal, and Jonathan S. Steinberg. 12-Lead Holter Monitoring Identifies Non-

Responders Following Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Atrial

Fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 53(12):1050-5, 2009 Mar 24.

40. Ganesh S. Kamath, Delia Cotiga, Dan Musat, Gangadhara Kabbli, Jorge Silva Enciso,

Emad F. Aziz, Aslam Khan, Daniel Marrero, Suneet Mittal and Jonathan S. Steinberg. Is

There Any Value in Initiating Dofetilide After Sotalol Has Failed to Control Atrial

Fibrillation? Heart Rhythm Vol 6, No.5 May Supplement 2009 S140.


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41. Ganesh S. Kamath, Gangadhara Kabbli, Jorge Silva Enciso, Emad F. Aziz, Delia Cotiga,

Dan Musat, Mark V. Sherrid, and Jonathan S. Steinberg. Safety and Efficacy of

Dofitalide for Atrial Tachyarrhythmias in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.

Heart Rhythm. May 2008, Vol. 5, n.5, pp. S154

42. Ajay Shah, Rawa Sarji, Rajeev Joshi, Emad F. Aziz, Sunil Joshi, Danny Pudpud,

Sandhya Balaram, Jonathan S Steinberg, Farooq Chaudhry. Long Term Comparison of

Robotic Epicardial versus Endovascular Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Heart

failure Hospitalization and Death. Circulation. 2008;118:S-1031-S1032

43. Emad F. Aziz, Dan Musat, Sandeep Pulimi, Amjad Nader, Lauren Rosenberg, Deborah

Tormey, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Raja Singh, Anshu Alok, Olivier Frankenberger,

Eyal Herzog. Implementation of a Novel pathway for Management of Acute Coronary

Syndrome Improves Guidelines Adherence and Remarkably Decrease Mortality and

Readmission Rates at Four Years Follow up. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., March 10, 2009; 53:

A367 - A402

44. Emad F. Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Ajay Shah, Amjad Nader, Sahil Jaiswal, Hari Om

Sharma, Balaji Pratrap, Sandeep Pulimi, Anshu Alok, Deborah Tormey, Steven Lee,

Ritter Alexander, Suzanne Karl, Eyal Herzog. 25% Decrease in Admission B-type

Natriuretic Peptide within 24 hours, Predicts The Most Favorable Outcome in Acutely

Decompensated Heart Failure patients. Accepted as a Poster Abstract in Society of Chest

Pain Centers (SCPC) Congress Meeting, May 2009.

45. Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog, Amjad Nader, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Dan Musat, Ajay

Shah, Rishi Malhan, Divyajot Sandhu, Raja Singh, Sahil Jaiswal, Deborah Tormey,

Suzanne Karl, Amanda Schneider, Marrick Kukin. Continuous Infusion of Furosemide

combined with Low Dose Dopamine Compared to Intermittent Boluses in acutely

Decompensated Heart Failure Patients is Less Nephrotoxic and Carries a Lower

Readmission at 30-days. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., March 10, 2009; 53: A144 - A197

46. Emad Aziz, Eyal Herzog, Amjad Nader, Hari Om Sharma, Sandeep Pulimi, Manpreet

Singh, Suchita Mishra, Deborah Tormey, Mina Botross, Marrick Kukin. Malnutrition as

Assessed by Nutritional Risk Index is Associated with Worse Outcome in Patients

Admitted with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. J Card Fail. August 2009;15(6),

Supplement A: S4). Presented as an Oral Presentation to HFSA 2009 in Boston,

Nominated for the Jay N. Cohn New Investigator Clinical/Integrative Physiology Award.

47. Emad F. Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Amjad Nader, Ajay Shah, Anshu Alok, Omar Wever-

Pinzon, Maria Elena De Benedetti, Carlos Leon Alviar, Rishi Malhan, Rajan Garg,

Deborah Tormey, Raja Singh, Farooq A. Chaudhry, Eyal Herzog. Right Ventricular

Dysfunction is a Strong Predictor of developing Atrial Fibrillation in Acutely

Decompensated Systolic Heart Failure Patients. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., March 10, 2009;

53: A100 - A143

48. Emad F. Aziz, Suneet Mittal, Dan Musat, Juan Pablo Cordora, Balaji Pratarp, Nicolay

Hernandez, Sriram Chaowdary, Vipin Lohiya, Birju Shah, Kiran Kunar Kalal, Jonathan

S. Steinberg, Eyal Herzog. The Effect of Left Ventricular Dysfunction on Long-Term

Outcome in Patients Presenting with Unexplained Syncope. Submitted to AHA 2009.


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49. Emad F. Aziz, Marrick Kukin, Fahad Javed, Sandeep Pulimi, Balaji Pratarp, Amjad

Nader, Eyal Herzog. Implementation of a Novel pathway for Management of Acute

Decompensated Heart Failure Improves Guidelines Adherence and Remarkably Decrease

Mortality and Readmission Rates; a Four Years ACAP-HF Analysis. Circulation, Nov

2009; 120: S882.

50. Jorge Silva Enciso, Harikrishna Makani, Jorge Romero, Emad Aziz, Marrick Kukin,

Franz H Messerli. Do Statins have a role in the prevention of Heart Failure? J. Am. Coll.

Cardiol., 2010, 55; A56:1131-109

51. Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Alexandre Benjo, Ramya Suryadevara, Iffat Shaheen, Carlos

Alviar, Jorge Romero, Eyal Herzog, Franz H Messerli. Lack of Effect of Thiazide

Diuretics on Bone Mineral Density in Hypertensive Elderly African American Women. J.

Am. Coll. Cardiol., 2010, 55; A56:1130-106

52. Omar Wever-Pinzon, Jorge Silva Enciso, Srinivas Bommireddipalli, Emad Aziz, Ameeta

Ahuja, Farooq A Chaudhry. Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Predicts Improvement

Of Left Ventricular Function In Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Induced

Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2009;120:S330).

53. Ajay Shah, Rajeev Joshi, Omar Wever-Pinzon, Ameeta Ahuja, Emad Aziz, Sandhya

Balaram, Jonathan S Steinberg, Farooq A Chaudhry. Response to Cardiac

Resynchronization Therapy improves Left Ventricular Filling Pressure. Circulation, Nov

2009; 120: S816.

54. Ajay Shah, Rajeev Joshi, Emad Aziz, Ameeta Ahuja, Omar Wever-Pinzon, Sandhya

Balaram, Jonathan S Steinberg, Farooq A Chaudhry. Pulmonary Vascular Resistance

predicts Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. Circulation, Nov 2009; 120:

S815.

55. Ajay Shah, Rawa Sarji, Rajeev Joshi, Emad Aziz, Sunil Joshi, Danny Pudpud, Sandhya

Balaram, Jonathan S Steinberg, and Farooq A Chaudhry. Long Term Outcomes after

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Comparison of Robotic Epicardial versus

Endovascular Procedures. Circulation, Oct 2008; 118: S_1031 - S_1032

56. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Carlos L. Alviar, Sriram Chowdhry, Nischala Dhanekula,

Yoon K. Yang, Arvinder Cheema, Taruna Sharma, Vipin Lohiya, Jennifer L. Hou,

Jeannette Huaman, Asher Stein, Eyal Herzog. CHADS2 Score Greater Than Two Predicts

Higher Mortality At 4-years Follow-up in Patients Admitted with Atrial Fibrillation; An

ACAP-RACE Registry Analysis. Presented as a Poster at the QCOR, Washington 2010

57. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratarp, Carlos L. Alviar, Sandeep Pulimi, Nischala Dhanekula,

Yoon K. Yang, Venkat Rao, Ankit Garg, Arvinder Cheema, Taruna Sharma, Jennifer L.

Hou, Asher Stein, Eyal Herzog. Low Risk ACS Patients Admitted to Telemetry Floors

Carries Better Outcome than Those Admitted to Non-Telemetry Floors, an ACAP-ACS

Analysis. Presented as a Poster at the QCOR, Washington 2010

58. Emad F Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Dan Musat, Kiran K Kalal, Juan Pablo Cordova, Carlos L

Alviar, Nischala Dhanekula, Venkat Rao, Andre Tojino, Teresita O Aziz, Robin Knox,

Eyal Herzog. African-American Patients Presenting with Unexplained Syncope Have


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Significantly Worse 1-year Outcome When compared to Non-African Americans. Circ

Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 4:AP122,

59. Emad F Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Omar Wever-pinzon, Fahad Javed, Yoon K Yang, Kiran K

Kalal, Venkat Rao, Resmi Premji, Putun patel, Andre Tojino, Jeannette Huaman, Yosef

Chodakiewitz, Eyal Herzog. Comparison of the Utilization of Evidence-Based Therapies

and Clinical Outcomes between Teaching and Non-teaching Medical Services after the

Implementation of Novel Clinical Pathways for the Management of Cardiac Patients.

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 4:AP121,

60. Omar Wever-Pinzon, Jorge Silva Enciso, Jorge Romero, Emad Aziz, Farooq A

Chaudhry. Inotropic Contactile Reserve can Risk Stratify and Prognosticate Patients with

HIV Cardiomyopathy: a Dobutamine Stress Echo Study. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., 2010, 55;

A96:1261-249.

61. Fahad Javed, Emad F. Aziz, Alexandre M. Benjo, Ramya Suryadevara, Carlos Alviar,

Jorge Romero, Iffat Shaheen, Eyal Herzog, Franz Messerli. Lack of effect of thiazide

diuretics on bone mineral density in hypertensive elderly african american women. J. Am.

Coll. Cardiol., March 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 10, Supplement, Page A56.E530

62. Omar Wever-Pinzon, Jorge Silva Enciso, Emad Aziz, Jorge Romero, Deborah Cantales,

Farooq A Chaudhry. Role of Stress Echocardiography in Risk Stratification and

Prognosis of Patients with HIV. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., 2010, 55; A95:1260-242.

63. Daniel L. Musat, Naga V. Garikipati, Alexandre Benjo, Akshay Avula, Emad F. Aziz,

Sonali Mantoo, Jonathan S. Steinberg, Suneet Mittal. The Effect of Atrial Rhythm on the

QTc Interval: Implications for Dofetilide Dose Titration. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.,

2010,55A2:1023-121

64. Shahzeb A Khan, Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Girish Nadkarni, Adnan Raufi, MD, Eyal

Herzog. Acquired Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation/Noncompaction In Neuro-

sarcoidosis – A Rare but Complicated Association. Poster finalist at internal medicine

2010 in Toronto, Canada.

65. Fahad Javed, Girish N Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan, Narender Annapureddya, Alexandre

Benjoa, Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog. The Association of the Friesinger Score and

Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in an Urban South Asian Patient Population. Am J

Kidney Dis. 2010 Jun;55(4): Page B83 (April 2010)

66. Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Girish N Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan, Rishi Malhan,

Alexandre Benjo, Eyal Herzog. The association of the Friesinger score and Pulse

Pressure in an urban South Asian Patient population: Pulse Pressure an independent

predictor of coronary artery disease. Journal of Clinical Hypertension Volume 12 Issue

s1, Pages A18 - A147

67. Fahad Javed, Girish N Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan, Narender Annapureddya, Alexandre

Benjoa, Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog. The Association of the Friesinger Score and

Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in an Urban South Asian Patient Population.

Accepted as a poster for presentation at 2010 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM10) April

13th - 17th, 2010 Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Orlando, FL


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68. Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Manpreet S Sabharwal, Girish Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan,

Alexandre M Benjo, Franz H Messerli, Eyal Herzog. Association of Body Mass Index

and Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in the Elderly African-American Females.

Circulation. 2010;122:A21452

69. Emad F. Aziz, Juan Pablo Cordova, Balaji Pratap, Manpreet S Sabharwal, Fahad Javed,

Carlos L Alviar, Dan Musat, Eyal Herzog. Heart Failure Patients Admitted with Elevated

Cardiac Troponin post implantable cardioverter-defibrillator Firing Carry the Highest

Mortality Rates. J Cardiac Fail August 2010 (Vol. 16, Issue 8, Supplement, Page S60).

70. Fahad Javed, Girish N Nadkarni, Emad F. Aziz, Alexandros Briasoulis, Narender

Annapureddy, Shahzeb A. Khan, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Nay Hyte, Eyal Herzog.

Low post-procedural estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) predicts higher rates

of restenosis in patients undergoing primary angioplasty for Peripheral Artery Disease

(PAD). Circulation. 2010;122:A21405

71. Aleksandr Korniyenko, Juan P. Cordova, Ronaldo Sevilla, Girish Nadkarni, Carlos L.

Alviar, Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Utility of ST-Segment Changes in Lead aVR To

Identify the Culprit Lesion in Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Updated Meta-analysis

On Sensitivity and Specificity. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2010;56;B105

72. Omar Wever-Pinzon, Jorge Romero, Jorge Silva Enciso, Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog.

Leukocyte Count Predicts Cardiovascular Events in Patients With HIV. Circulation, 23

November 2010; 122: A16323

73. Dan Musat, Suneet Mittal, Sean Morgan, Patricia Chavarria, Glenda Winson, Emad F

Aziz, Bette Kim, Jonathan S Steinberg, Mark V Sherrid. ICD in Hypertrophic

Cardiomyopathy: Outcome and Complications. Circulation, 23 November 2010; 122:

A19528

74. Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Manpreet S Sabharwal, Girish Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan,

Alexandre M Benjo, Eyal Herzog, Franz H Messerli. Association between Body Mass

Index and Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in the Elderly African-American female

population. Circulation, 23 November 2010; 122: A21452

75. Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Girish Nadkarni, Shahzeb A Khan, Alexandros Briasoulis,

Manpreet S Sabharwal, Carlos L Alviar, Nay Hyte, Eyal Herzog. Low post-procedural

estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate predicts higher rates of restenosis in patients

undergoing primary angioplasty for Peripheral Artery Disease. Circulation, 23 November

2010; 122: A21405

76. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Omar Wever-Pinzon, Fahed Javed, Carlos L. Alviar,

Kaylan K. Bandavaram, Sejal Mehta, Venkat R. Kakollu, R. Premji, Danielle Binler,

Donald Kotler, Eyal Herzog. Ziagen® (Abacavir) is Associated with Increase Event

Rates and Mortality in Patients with Suspected Cardiovascular Disease and HIV

Infection. Circulation, 23 November 2010; 122: A21178

77. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Terrence Park, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Praveen

Devineni, Andre Tojino, Sejal Mehta, Joseph Hanna Bastawrose, Shubha D. Bhat,

Yagnang K. Vyas, Eyal Herzog. Octogenarians with Atrial Fibrillation, Carry a Higher


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Risk of Death and Stroke with less use of Anticoagulation. An ACAP-RACE Analysis. J.

Am. Coll. Cardiol., April 5, 2011; 57: E1251.

78. Eyal Herzog, Janet Shapiro, Emad F. Aziz, Mun K. Hong, Dan Wiener, Suneet Mittal. A

Novel Pathway to Provide Therapeutic Hypothermia to Survivors of Out-of-Hospital

Cardiac Arrest Leads to a Remarkable 43% Survival with an Excellent Neurologic

Outcome in VT/VF but Failed to Improve Outcome for in Hospital Cardiac Arrest or

Patients with an Asystole or PEA. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., April 5, 2011; 57: E1001.

79. Emad F. Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Terrence Park, Balaji Pratap, Kalyan K.

Bandavaram, Andre Tojino, Joseph Hanna Bastawrose, Fahad Javed, Praveen Devineni,

Eyal Herzog. Women with Atrial Fibrillation are at a Higher Risk to Develop Stroke, an

ACAP-RACE Analysis. Presented as a Poster at the QCOR, Washington 2011.

80. Emad F. Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Joseph Hanna Bastawrose,

Terrence Park, Joseph Kim, Claire Murphy, Joanna Verzosa, Nick David, and Eyal

Herzog. Do Emergency Room Physicians Correctly Identify Patients Presenting with

Unexplained Syncope who Warrant Hospitalization? Accepted as an Oral Presentation at

the International Academy of Cardiology 16th

World Congress on Heart Disease Annual

Scientific Session, Vancouver, B.C. Canada July 23-26, 2011.

81. Emad F. Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Balaji Pratap, Joseph Hanna Bastawrose,

Terrence Park, Steven Lee, Fahad Javed, and Eyal Herzog. A Simple Novel SELF-

Pathway Appropriately Identify High Risk Patients When Admitted with Unexplained

Syncope. Circulation. 2011; 124: A18006

82. Emad F. Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Balaji Pratap, Joseph Hanna Bastawrose,

Terrence Park, Steven Lee, Fahad Javed, and Eyal Herzog. A Novel SELF-Pathway for

Management of Patients Presenting with Unexplained-Syncope Appropriately Identify

High Risk Patients as Validated by the OESIL Risk Score. Circ Cardiovasc Qual

Outcomes. 5:A225, 2012

83. Emad F. Aziz, Terrence Park, Balaji Pratap, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Joseph H.

Bastawrose, Michael Hanna, Kultida Tangwongchai, Darcie Alwood, Chelsea

Rittenhouse, Fahad Javed, and Eyal Herzog. Implementation of a Novel RACE pathway

for Management of Atrial Fibrillation Improves Guidelines Adherence and Remarkably

Decrease Mortality and Readmission Rates; an ACAP-RACE Analysis. Presented as a

Poster at the QCOR, Atlanta 2012

84. Emad F. Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Balaji Pratap, Steve Lee, Joseph H.

Bastawrose, Terrence Park, Michael Hanna, Kultida Tangwongchai, Darcie Alwood,

Chelsea Rittenhouse, Fahad Javed, and Eyal Herzog. Short and Long Term Outcomes of

Patients Admitted with Unexplained Syncope Using a Simple Novel SELF-Pathway.

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 5:A52, 2012

85. Emad F. Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Balaji Pratap, Joseph H. Bastawrose,

Terrence Park, Michael Hanna, Kultida Tangwongchai, Urvi Pai, Darcie Alwood,

Chelsea Rittenhouse, Akitto Ledda, Fahad Javed, and Eyal Herzog. A Major Gap Still

Exists in Applying Published Guidelines for primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac


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Death and Underutilization of Device Implantation; An ESCAPE Database Analysis. J.

Am. Coll. Cardiol., March 27, 2012; 59: E701

86. Devindra Dabiesingh, Emad F Aziz. Digoxin in Atrial Fibrillation With Rapid

Ventricular Rate: Slow and Steady May Win the RACE. Accepted as a Poster

Presentation at the International Academy of Cardiology 16th World Congress on Heart

Disease Annual Scientific Session, Toronto, B.C. Canada July 27-30, 2012.

87. Emad F Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Chaithanya K Pamidimukala, Terence Park, Sadia Qadir,

Bani M Azari, Joseph Bastawrose, Haitem Muafa, Pughal Gnanaprakasam, Rashmi

Reddy, Urvi Pai, Vikram Sangani, Chelsea Rittenhouse, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog. Long

Term Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation Therapies; an ACAP-RACE Registry Analysis.

Accepted as an Oral Presentation at the International Academy of Cardiology 16th

World Congress on Heart Disease Annual Scientific Session, Toronto, B.C. Canada July

27-30, 2012.

88. Alexandre M. Benjo, Shashi Kumar, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog, Orlando Santana, Emad

F. Aziz. Omega-3 Supplementation Decreases Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery

Patients: a Randomized-Controlled Trial Meta-Analysis. Submitted to American heart

Association, Los Angeles 2012.

89. Alexandre M. Benjo, Emad F. Aziz, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog, Nay, Todd Heimowitz,

Nirat Beohar, Tyrone Collins, Christopher White. Drug Eluting Stents are Superior to

Bare Metal Stents in Improving Patency and Rutherford classification and Decreasing In-

stent Restenosis and Target Lesion Revascularization in Patients with Severe Coronary

Artery Disease: a Randomized-Controlled Trial Meta-Analysis. Submitted to American

heart Association, Los Angeles 2012.

90. Alexandre M. Benjo, Francisco Y. Macedo, Francisco O. Nacimento, Emad F. Aziz,

Eyal Herzog, Fahad Javed, Todd Heimowitz, Nirat Beohar. Short Term Oral Sirolimus

Decreases In-stent Restenosis, Target Lesion and Vessel Revascularization and Late

Lumen Loss without Increasing the Incidence of Cancer: a Randomized-Controlled Trial

Meta-Analysis. Submitted to American heart Association, Los Angeles 2012.

91. Alexandre M. Benjo, Shashi Kumar, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog, Wallacy Garcia, Emad

F. Aziz. Vitamin C Decreases Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery Patients While

Vitamin E may Decrease Response: a Randomized-Controlled Trial Meta-Analysis.

Accepted for Presentation at the QCOR 2013 Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Circ Cardiovasc

Qual Outcomes. 2013;6:A288

92. Emad F Aziz, Chaithanya k Pamidimukala, Joseph H. Bastawrose, Balaji Pratap, Urvi

Pai, Jonathan Kahn, Pallav P Kataria, Eun Sik Cho, Ian Lizardo, Anthony Awad,

Alexandre M. Benjo, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog. ACS Patients with Government

Healthcare Insurance Coverage Have Increased Long Term Morbidity and Mortality; an

ACAP-PAIN Registry Analysis. Accepted for Presentation at the QCOR 2013 Meeting,

Baltimore, MD


Pai, Jonathan Kahn, Pallav P Kataria, Eun Sik Cho, Ramya Bharathi, Anthony Awad,

Alexandre M. Benjo, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog. Effect of Race on Long Term Outcomes


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in Patients Admitted with Acute Coronary Syndrome; an ACAP-PAIN Registry Analysis.

Submitted to American heart Association, Los Angeles 2012. J Am Coll Cardiol.

2013;61(10_S)


Pai, Jonathan Kahn, Pallav P Kataria, Eun Sik Cho, Anthony Awad, Alexandre M. Benjo,

Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog. Major Gap Exists between Races in Applying Published

Guidelines for Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death; An ESCAPE Database

Analysis. Accepted as a Panel Discussion Oral presentation to American heart

Association, Los Angeles 2012. Circulation. 2012; 126: A19166

95. Alexandre Benjo, Klio Chantziara, Christos Maniotis, Shashi Kumar, Erdal Gursoy, Todd

Kobrinski, Walter Pierce, Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz. Intensive glucose increases

hypoglycemic events without decreasing death or improving neurological outcome: a

meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Accepted as a Poster presentation to

American heart Association Resuscitation Science Symposium, Los Angeles 2012.

96. Alexandre M Benjo, Shashi Kumar, Christos Maniotis, Walter Pierce, Emad Aziz, Eyal

Herzog. Friend or Foe? Epinephrine Does Not Impact Survival and May Worsen

Neurological Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: a multi-step meta-analysis of

randomized control trials. Accepted as an Oral presentation to American heart

Association Resuscitation Science Symposium, Los Angeles 2012.

97. Alexandre Benjo, Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog, Francisco YB Macedo, Fahad Javed,

Tyrone Collins, Christopher J White. Below-Knee Drug Eluting Stents Have Improved

Patency, and Symptoms Compared to Bare Metal Stents: a Meta-Analysis. J Am Coll

Cardiol. 2012; 60(17_S)

98. Jasmine Beria, Jonathan Giordano, Min-Kyung Jung, Emad F Aziz, Deborah Lardner,

Zehra Ahmed, Michael Passafaro. A Prospective Study using Electrocardiograms as a

Potential Screening Tool for the Detection of Chronic Chaga’s Disease in an Endemic

Population: El Salvador. Presented as a poster at American Society of Tropical Medicine

and Hygiene (ASTMH) in Atlanta, 2012

99. Alexandre M Benjo, Shashi Kumar, Firas Kaddaha, Georges El-Hayek, Chaithanya K

Pamidimukala, Cezar Benjo, Marcos Molina, Eyal Herzog, Emad F. Aziz. Class III

Anti-Arrhythmic Drugs are Safe to Decrease Defibrillator Shocks: A Meta-Analysis of

Randomized Controlled Trials. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013; 61(10_S).

100.Alexandre M Benjo, Girish Nadkarni, Chaithanya K Pamidimukala, Manpreet S

Sabharwal, Vijay Lapsia, Mayra Rodriguez, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog, Emad F Aziz.

Hispanics with Renal Failure and Atrial Fibrillation Have Higher Rate and Earlier

Incidence of Readmissions as Compared to Black or White Patients: An ACAP-RACE

Registry Analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013;61(10_S)

101.Alexandre M Benjo, Girish Nadkarni, Chaithanya K Pamidimukala, Manpreet S

Sabharwal, Vijay Lapsia, Shiv Kumar Agarwal, Fahad Javed, Eyal Herzog, Emad F

Aziz. Caucasians with Renal Failure and Atrial Fibrillation Have Higher Mortality as

Compared to Black or Hispanics Patients: An ACAP-RACE Registry Analysis. J Am

Coll Cardiol. Volume 61, Issue 10, Supplement , Page E329, 12 March 2013


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102.Emad F. Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Balaji Pratap, Joseph Bastawrose,

Tashkeer Abbas, Urvi Pai, Shauib Mohamed, Ramya Bharathi, Joshua Aziz, Ammy

Aalburo, Fahad Javed, Alexandre Benjo, Eyal Herzog. The Calm Before the Storm; 5-

year follow up of ACS Patients Demonstrate a Late Steep Increase in Cardiovascular

Events, an ACAP-ACS Database Analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013;61(10_S)

103.Emad F Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Balaji Pratap, Joseph Bastawrose, Urvi Pai,

Ramya Bharathi, Leeda Ahmadi, Taskheer Abbas, Rashmi Reddy, Rishad Usmani,

Alyosha Smolarski, Alexandre Benjo, Eyal Herzog. Risk Stratification and Assessment

for future cardiac Events in patients admitted with ACS using a Novel Critical pathway

and its Validation by Framingham Risk Score; an ACAP-ACS Database Analysis. Circ

Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2013; 6: A145

104.Emad F. Aziz, Chaithanya K. Pamidimuakala, Urvi Pai, Alexandre M. Benjo, Balaji

Pratap, Joseph Bastawrose, Rishad Usmani, Matthew Pierce, Ramya Bharathi, Ian M.

Lizardo, Ammy Malinay, Joshua Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Digoxin Remains a Valid Rate

Control of Choice in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation; Its Deleterious Effect are

Balanced by the Addition of Beta-Blockers and Calcium Channel Blockers. An ACAP-

RACE Registry Analysis. Accepted for Presentation at the heart Rhythm Society meeting,

Denver, CO, 2013

105.Alexandre M. Benjo, Christos Maniotis, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Shashi Kumar,

Joshua Aziz, Cezar Benjo, Matthew Pierce, Erdal Gursoy, Eyal Herzog, Walter Pierce,

MD and Emad F. Aziz. Segmental versus Circumferential Ablation for Symptomatic

Atrial Fibrillation, the Jury is Still Out: A Meta-Analysis. Submitted to HRS 2013

106.Chaithanya K Pamidimukala, Emad F Aziz, Joseph H Bastawrose, Shuaib Mohamed,

Urvi Pai, Rishad Usmani, Shashi Kumar, Balaji Pratap, Alexandre M Benjo, Eyal

Herzog. Risk Stratification and Assessment for future Cardiac Events in Patients admitted

with ACS Using a Novel Critical Pathway and its Validation by Framingham Risk Score,

an ACAP-PAIN Database Analysis. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2013;6:A145

107.Shashi Kumar, Alexandre M. Benjo, Chaithanya K Pamidimukala, Fahad Javed, Wallacy

Garcia, Francisco YB Macedo, Daniel C Garcia, Orlando Santana, Francisco O

Nascimeto, Matthew Pierce, Eyal Herzog, Emad F Aziz. Vitamin C Decreases Atrial

Fibrillation In Cardiac Surgery Patients But Vitamin E May Decrease Response: A

Randomized-controlled Trial Meta-analysis. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2013; 6:

A288

108.Chaithanya K Pamidimukala, Emad F Aziz, Balaji Pratap, Joseph H Bastawrose, Shuaib

Mohamed, Urvi V Pai, Eun Sik J Cho, Ramya Bharathi, Ian M Lizardo, Alexandre M

Benjo, Eyal Herzog. The Correlation Between Insurance Coverage and Long-term

Outcomes in Patients Presenting With ACS. An ACAP-PAIN Registry Analysis. Circ

Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2013;6:A179

109.Georges EL-Hayek, Alexandre M. Benjo, Joao L. Cavalcante, Shashi Kumar, Orlando

Santana, Daniel C Garcia, Eyal Herzog, Walter Pierce, Emad F Aziz, Seth Uretsky, and

Francisco O Nascimento. The Use of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in

Chest Pain Patients in the Emergency Departments Reduces Future Hospital Admissions


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and Does Not Impact the Need for Cardiac Catheterizations: A busting meta-analysis.

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2013;6:A268

110.Patricia Chavez; Franz H Messerli; Emad F Aziz; Tina Sichrovsky; Stephan Danik;

Conor Barrett. Atrioesophageal Fistula Following Ablation Procedures for Atrial

Fibrillation: A Case Series. Circulation. 2013; 128: A16235

111.Daniel Garcia; Francisco YB Macedo; Alexandre Benjo; Emad Aziz; Eyal Herzog;

Eduardo De Marchena. Catheter-based renal sympatetic denervation for resistant

hypertension: a meta-analysis of clinical trials. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013;61(10_S)

112.Eric Bader; Alexandre Benjo; Martin Tabaksblat; Amy Chorzempa; Chaithanya K.

Pamidimukala; Emad Aziz; Erdal Gurzoy; Walter Pierce; Taimur Mirza; Jacqueline

Tamis-Holland. Decreased in-hospital mortality in hypertensive patients undergoing

stemi: is hypertension to be encouraged? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013; 61(10_S)

113.Emad F. Aziz, C. Maniotis, C. Pamidimukala, A. Benjo, B. Pratap, J. Bastawrose, U.

Pai, M. Pierce, R. Bharathi, E. Herzog. Heart Failure is the Strongest Predictor of

Mortality in Patients Presenting with Unexplained Syncope. An ACAP-SELF Registry

Analysis. Oral Presentation at Europace 2013, Athens, Greece. Europace (2013) 15

(suppl 2): ii114-ii115.

114.Emad F. Aziz, C. Maniotis, C. Pamidimukala, A. Benjo, J. Bastawrose, B. Pratap, E.

Cho, S. Mohamed, R. Usmani, E. Herzog. Short and Long Term Outcomes of Patients

Admitted with Unexplained Syncope Using a Simple Novel SELF-Pathway. . An ACAP-

RACE Registry Analysis. Oral Presentation at Europace 2013, Athens, Greece.

Europace (2013) 15 (suppl 2): ii114-ii115.

115.Matthew Pierce, Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Joseph Bastawrose, Bani M. Azari, MD,

Rishad Usmani, Alexandre Benjo, Walter Pierce, Eyal Herzog, and Emad F. Aziz. The

effects of Gender, Calcium Channel Blockers and Digoxin on Dofetilide therapeutic

efficacy and Outcomes: An ACAP-Tikosyn Registry Analysis. Presented at The

International Academy of Cardiology Meeting, Canada, 2013

116.Daniel Garcia, Alexandre Benjo, Guilherme Nasi, Patricia Chavez, Paulo V. Jardim,

Emad F Aziz. Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump versus Peripheral Left Ventricular Assist

Device in Cardiogenic Shock: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials - Same

Effect, Less Complication. Circulation. 2013; 128: A12588

117.Alexandre Benjo, Daniel Garcia, Shashi Kumar, Wallacy Garcia, Francisco YB Macedo,

Cezar Benjo, Eyal Herzog, Emad F Aziz. Post-operative Biatrial Pacing Consistently

Decreases Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized-controlled Trial Meta-

analysis. Circulation. 2013; 128: A17324

118.Daniel Garcia; Alexandre M. Benjo; Guilherme Nasi; Francisco Y. Macedo; Emad

Aziz. Subclavian Access Safety for TAVR: A Two Steps Meta-Analysis. J Am Coll

Cardiol. 2013; 62(18_S1)

119.Alexandre M. Benjo; Daniel Garcia; James Jenkins; Rhanderson Cardoso; Taina Molina;

Emad Aziz; Tyrone Collins. Cilostazol increases patency and reduces adverse outcomes

in percutaneous femoropopliteal revascularisation: a meta-analysis of randomised

controlled trials. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014; 63(12_S)


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120.Rhanderson N. Cardoso; Alexandre M. Benjo; Tyrone Collins; Daniel Garcia; Francisco

Y. Macedo; Georges EL-Hayek; Carlos Zamora; Emad Aziz; James S. Jenkins. Vascular

Brachytherapy versus Drug-Eluting Stents in the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis: a

Meta-Analysis of Long Term Outcomes. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014; 64(11_S)

121.Alexandre Benjo; Daniel Garcia; Rajan Patel; Rhanderson Cardoso; Francisco Macedo;

Georges El-Hayek; Emad Aziz; Christopher White. Proximal embolic protection

decreases cerebral microembolization compared to distal protection for carotid stenting: a

meta-analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014; 63(12_S)

122.Matthew Pierce; Balaji Pratap; Chaithanya K Pamidimukala; Joseph H Bastawrose;

Archana Lingannan; Narmadha Panneerselvam; Adilaxmi Gurram; Dipen Patel; Prachi

Kalamkar; Rishad Usmani; Tad Umali; Eyal Herzog and Emad F Aziz. Female Gender,

Laser Sheath Use and Operator Skill Drive the Success and Complication Rates of

Cardiac Device Lead Extraction: An ACAP Registry Analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol.

2014;63(12_S).

123.Alexandre Benjo, Daniel Garcia, Christopher White, Rhanderson Cardoso, Francisco

Macedo, Alan Schob, Georges El-Hayek, Girish Nadkarni, Emad F Aziz, Rajan Patel. A

Meta-Analysis of Multi-Vessel versus Culprit Artery Only Percutaneous Coronary

Intervention in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. JACC March 17, 2015.

Volume 65, Issue 10S

124.Chaithanya K. Pamidimukala, Adilaxmi Gurram, Joseph Bastwrose, Tad Umali, Balaji

Pratap, Eyal Herzog, Emad F. Aziz. Octogenarians with Atrial Fibrillation have the

highest all-cause mortality and stroke re-admission combined with fewer Use of

Anticoagulation. An ACAP-RACE Longitudinal database Analysis. Accepted to the

Heart Rhythm Meeting, Boston, 2015

125.Olga Reynbakh, Philippe Akhrass, Nektarios Souvaliotis, Chaithanya Pamidimukala,

Hasnun Nahar, Joseph Bastawrose, Joshua Aziz, Davendra Mehta, Emad F Aziz.

Perioperative Use of Surgical Hemostatic Powder for EP Device Implantation Reduces

Postoperative Rates Of Pocket Hematoma and Infection. Heart Rhythm Meeting, 2016.

126.Hafeez Ul Hassan, Philippe Akhrass, Nektarios Souvaliotis, Bemen Habashi, Hasnun

Nahar, Joseph Bastawrose, Joshua Aziz, Davendra Mehta, Emad F Aziz. Short and Long

Term Clinical Predictors of Pharmacological Cardioversion in Patients with Persistent

Atrial Fibrillation Using Dofetilide. Heart Rhythm Meeting, 2016.

127.Hafeez Ul Hassan, Philippe Akhrass, Nektarios Souvaliotis, Bemen Habashi, Hasnun

Nahar, Joseph Bastawrose, Joshua Aziz, Davendra Mehta, Emad F Aziz. Sex

Differences in the Response Rate to Chemical Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation Using

Dofetilide. Heart Rhythm Meeting, 2016.

Book Chapters:

1. Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz, Mun K. Hong. The PAIN Pathway for the Management of

Acute Coronary Syndrome. Acute Coronary Syndrome in Clinical Practice. Springer

Publishing, 2007


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2. Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz, Mun K. Hong. Translation of Critical Pathways for Acute

Coronary Syndrome into Admission Notes and Discharge Planning. Acute Coronary

Syndrome in Clinical Practice. Springer Publishing, 2007

3. David Wild, Emad Aziz, Eyal Herzog, Marrick Kukin. Diagnosis and Treatment of

Congestive Heart Failure. Acute Coronary Syndrome in Clinical Practice. Springer

Publishing, 2007

4. Hossein Eftekhari, Inna Bukharovich, Emad Aziz, Mun K. Hong. Epidemiology and

Pathophysiology of Acute Coronary Syndrome. Acute Coronary Syndrome in Clinical

Practice. Springer Publishing, 2007

5. Mathew Daka, Emad Aziz, Robert Leber, Mun Hong. Diagnosis and Treatment of ST-

Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Acute Coronary Syndrome in Clinical

Practice. Springer Publishing, 2007

6. Emad Aziz, Eyal Herzog, Nicholas Mezitis. Hyperglycemia Complicating the Acute

Coronary Syndrome: Algorithm for Hyperglycemia Management during ACS. Acute

Coronary Syndrome in Clinical Practice. Springer Publishing, 2007

7. Emad Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Echocardiography during Angina Pectoris and Acute

Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Room. Echocardiography in Acute Coronary

Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention. Springer Publishing, 2009.

8. Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz, Mun K. Hong. A Novel Pathway for the Management of Acute

Coronary Syndrome. Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Diagnosis,

Treatment and Prevention. Springer Publishing, 2009.

9. David Wild, Eyal Herzog, Emad Aziz, Marrick Kukin. Pathway for the Management of

Heart Failure Complicating Acute Coronary Syndrome. Echocardiography in Acute

Coronary Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention. Springer Publishing, 2009.

10. Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death after Acute

Myocardial Infarction. The CCU Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, January

2012.

11. Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Sudden

Cardiac Arrest. The CCU Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, January 2012.

12. Eyal Herzog, Fahad Javed, Emad F Aziz, Mun K Hong. Pathway for the Management of

Acute Coronary Syndrome. The CCU Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,

January 2012.

13. Eyal Herzog, Edgar Argulian, Emad F Aziz, Marrick Kukin. Pathway for the

Management of Acute Heart Failure. The CCU Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams &

Wilkins, January 2012.

14. Eyal Herzog, Eitan Klein, Emad F Aziz, Janet Shapiro, Mun K Hong, Suneet Mittal.

Pathway for the Management of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. The CCU Survival

Guide. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, January 2012.


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15. Edgar Argulian, Dan Halpern, Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Supraventricular Arrhythmias

and Atrial Fibrillation. The CCU Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, January

2012.

16. Emad F Aziz, Eyal Herzog. The Approach to the Patient with Syncope. The CCU

Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, January 2012.

17. Eric M Bader, Edgar Argulian, Eyal Herzog, and Emad F Aziz. Procedures to Treat

Arrhythmias in the Cardiac Care Unit. The CCU Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams &

Wilkins, January 2012.

18. Dan Halpern, Harikrishna Makani, Edgar Argulian, Balaji Pratap, Emad F Aziz, and

Eyal Herzog. Commonly Used Medications for the Treatment of Arrhythmias. The CCU

Survival Guide. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, January 2012.

19. Electrocardiogram in Pericardial Disease. Eric Bader, Eyal Herzog, Henry Greenberg,

Emad F Aziz. Pericardiology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, August 2014.

20. Pericarditis in Acute Coronary Syndrome. Hari Krishna, Eyal Herzog, Emad F Aziz,

Moun K Hong. Pericardiology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, August 2014.

21. 'CHASER' Pathway for the Management of Pericardial Disease. Edgar Argurlin, Dan

Halpern, Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, August 2014.

22. Cardiopulmonary and Cardiocerebral Resuscitation. Eyal Herzog, Lee Herzog, Emad F.

Aziz. Hurst's the Heart, McGraw-Hill Education, 2016 edition.

LECTURES /GRAND ROUNDS IN CARDIOLOGY ( INCLUDING CME APPROVED):

1. New Horizon’s in Heart Failure Medical & Device Therapies, 2016 Updates. Cardiology

Fellows Program, Sponsored by Biotronik, September 2015

2. Atrial Fibrillation NOAC Management, 2015 Updates. Grand Rounds at St. Barnabas

Medical Center, Bronx, NY December 2015

3. ESCAPE Pathway, ICD Indications and Updates in 2015. Grand Rounds at Mount Sinai

St. Luke’s NY, NY November 2015

4. Pathways in Management of Syncope, 2015 Updates. Grand Rounds at Mount Sinai St.

Luke’s NY, NY November 2015

5. ICD Therapy: Indications, Actual Cases and Programming. Fellows Program, Sponsored

by SJM, September 2015

6. How to Choose a Device that is specific to every patient, Real Case-Based Covering. EP

Attending Boot Camp, June 2015

7. Remote Magnetic Navigation Ablation Mini Course, EP Attending Boot Camp, June

2015

8. New Horizon’s in Heart Failure Medical & Device Therapies, 2015 Updates. Cardiology

Grand Round Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, May, 2015


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9. Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia without Structural Heart Disease. Medicine

Grand Round Broward Hospital, Florida. 11, 2014

10. Syncope, Working Diagnosis, Updates 2014. Medicine Grand Round Harlem Hospital.

11. Working up Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation. Atrial Fibrillation Management and

Treatment Update. Al Sabah Arrhythmia Institute Sponsored CME Course, Samuel B. &

David Rose Building, Lincoln Center, 10/2013

12. Critical Care Pathway Management for Unexplained Syncope, 2013 Updates. Cardiology

Grand Rounds, 9/2013

13. The effects of Gender, Calcium Channel Blockers and Digoxin on Dofetilide therapeutic

efficacy and Outcomes: An ACAP-Tikosyn Registry Analysis. Presented at The

International Academy of Cardiology Meeting, Canada, 2013

14. Heart Failure is the Strongest Predictor of Mortality in Patients Presenting with

Unexplained Syncope. An ACAP-SELF Registry Analysis. Europace 2013, Athens,

Greece.

15. Short and Long Term Outcomes of Patients Admitted with Unexplained Syncope Using a

Simple Novel SELF-Pathway. An ACAP-RACE Registry Analysis. Europace 2013,

Athens, Greece.

16. Improving Health Care Quality in an Insolvent System: Who will lead? OMICS Group

3rd

International Conference on Clinical & Experimental Cardiology, Chicago, 4/2013

17. Catheter Ablation of VT without Structural Heart Disease. CardioEgypt 2013, 40th

Congress Cairo, Egypt, 3/2013

18. Robotic & Magnetic Navigation for Atrial Fibrillation. CardioEgypt 2013, 40th

Congress

Cairo, Egypt, 3/2013

19. Unknowns, in Electrocardiograms and Electrophysiological Electrograms. CardioEgypt

2013, 40th

Congress Cairo, Egypt, 3/2013

20. Major Gap Exists between Races in Applying Published Guidelines for Primary

Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death; An ESCAPE Database Analysis. Panel Discussion

presentation to American heart Association, Los Angeles 11, 2012.

21. Exploring Management Options in Cryptogenic Stroke; The Role of Reveal XT

Insertable Cardiac Monitor. Neurology Grand Round, 9/2012

22. State of the ART Management of Atrial Fibrillation, 2012 Update. Cardiology Grand

Rounds, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, 9/2012

23. Rate and Rhythm Control for Atrial Fibrillation, New Anticoagulants and RACE

Pathway Update for 2012. Medicine Noon Conference, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital,

8/2012

24. Long Term Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation Therapies; an ACAP-RACE Registry

Analysis. International Academy of Cardiology 16th World Congress on Heart Disease

Annual Scientific Session, Toronto, B.C. Canada July 27-30, 2012.


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25. Atrial Fibrillation Management for The Primary Care Physicians; what’s there to Know?

Medicine Noon Conference, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, 6/2012

26. Syncope: a Diagnostic & Treatment Strategy, SELF Pathway. Medicine Conference, St.

Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, 5/2012

27. The GAP in Identifying SCD Patients; the Role of the ACAP Program. 2nd

Annual

ESCAPE Sudden Cardiac Death Awareness Symposium, 2012. St. Luke’s-Roosevelt

Hospital, 4/2012

28. Advanced in Atrial Fibrillation Management; 2012 Updates? Medicine Conference, St.


29. 2nd Annual Chilling in Manhattan, Voice of Survivors Program; Focus on Women. St.


30. Catheter Ablation of VT Without Structural Heart Disease. Cardiology Grand Rounds,

St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, 12/2011

31. Improving Health Care Quality in an Insolvent System: Who will lead? Medicine Grand

Rounds, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, 9/2011

32. Do Emergency Room Physicians Correctly Identify Patients Presenting with Unexplained

Syncope who Warrant Hospitalization? The International Academy of Cardiology 16th

World Congress on Heart Disease Annual Scientific Session, Vancouver, B.C. Canada

July 23-26, 2011.

33. Arrhythmias in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Clinical Conference, St.


34. Key Features in Implementing the ACAP Program; NINE Novel Pathways and Counting.

Medicine Grand Rounds, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, 5/2011.

35. The ACAP Program Success. Cardiology Grand Rounds, Wilkes-Barre General

Hospital, PA 11/2010.

36. Implementing a Hospital Wide Evidence-Based Clinical Pathways System for the

Management of Cardiac Patients; the ACAP Program Experience. ACS New York 2010

Symposium, 10/2010.

37. Success in Implementing a Hospital Wide Evidence-Based Clinical Pathways System for

the Management of Cardiac Patients; the ACAP Program Experience. Medicine Grand

Rounds 8/2010.

38. Malnutrition as Assessed by Nutritional Risk Index is Associated with Worse Outcome in

Patients Admitted with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. Jay N. Cohn New

Investigator (JNCNI) Clinical/Integrative physiology Award, the 13th

Annual Scientific

Meeting of the HFSA 2009.

39. Right Ventricular Dysfunction is a Strong Predictor of Developing Atrial Fibrillation in

Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure Patients, ACAP-HF Data Analysis. Winner

abstract for the tenth annual Joan Barber Memorial Research Award. The New York

Echo Society Meeting, June 2009.


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40. SCD Myth Busters, Insight from the ESCAPE Pathway. Medicine Grand Rounds 4/2009

41. The ACAP Program; Guidelines Implementation Tools. Cardiology Department

Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center. 3/2009

42. Implementation of a Novel pathway for Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome

Improves Guidelines Adherence and Remarkably Decrease Mortality and Readmission

Rates at Four Years Follow up. Cardiology Grand Rounds 3/2009.

43. Continuous Infusion of Furosemide combined with Low Dose Dopamine Compared to

Intermittent Boluses in acutely Decompensated Heart Failure Patients is Less

Nephrotoxic and Carries a Lower Readmission at 30-days. Cardiology Grand Rounds

3/2009.

44. Right Ventricular Dysfunction is a Strong Predictor for developing Atrial Fibrillation in

Acutely Decompensated Systolic Heart Failure Patients. Cardiology Grand Rounds

3/2009.

45. Sudden Cardiac Death Awareness Workshop Launch Date for the ESCAPE Pathway.

Workshop Training Program 1/2009

46. The Failing Heart! Psychotropic Therapy Induced LBBB precipitating Severe LV

Systolic Cardiomyopathy. The Ninth Annual New Frontiers in Heart Failure Therapy,

Integrated Devices and Pharmacotherapy Conference. January, 2009

47. The Art and Science of Acute Coronary Syndrome Management. Medicine Grand

Rounds 8/2008

48. The Art and Science of Heart Failure Management. Medicine Grand Rounds 7/2008

49. A Novel Pathway for the Management of Hyperglycemia Facilitates a Rapid Intensive

Glycemic Control in Critical Care Patients Without Causing any Hypoglycemic

Episodes. AHA 2007 Orlando, Florida, Oral Presentation.

50. Acute Management of In-Hospital Hypertension. Multi-Disciplinary Pathways for ACS

Management in the Big Apple 2007. Conference October 13, 2007.

51. Management of In-Hospital Hypertension; a JNC Prospective. Medicine Grand Rounds,

July 2007

52. Management of Syncope; Through a Novel pathway. Medicine Grand Rounds, July 2007

53. Impact of a Novel Critical Pathway for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome

leads to markedly improved Compliance with Guidelines and decreased Angina

Symptoms at 12-month follow-up. Cardiology Grand Rounds, March 2006.

54. Osteopathic Medicine & Cardiology; emphasis on Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment

in Hypertension Management & in Critical Ill Patients in the Coronary Care Units.

Medicine Grand Rounds, 2005

55. Is BNP Testing of any Value or, is it a Sham?, Senior Resident Lecture, Medicine Grand

Rounds, March 2007

56. Cath Lab past, present & future. SICP 1996

57. Cardiology in critical care; a view in post Cath care. SICP 1997


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58. Outcome of Stent deployment and proper vessel sizing, Cardiovascular Symposium of

Allied Health, 1996.

LECTURES/GRAND ROUNDS IN CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY:

1. Challenging Cases & Unknowns. International Biotronik Fellows Meeting, Chicago 2013

2. Robotic & Magnetic Navigation for Atrial Fibrillation. St. Luke's-Roosevelt

Electrophysiology Conference, 4/2013

3. Mapping Left-Sided Atrial Flutter, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Electrophysiology Conference,

3/2012

4. Syncope Management in 2012, A Case Based Review, Medicine Grand Rounds,

Roosevelt Hospital 2/2012

5. The HRS/ASA Consensus on the Perioperative Management of Patients with Implantable

Devices, What Should we know? May 2011

6. HRS 2011 Late-Breaking Trial Updates (Discern-AF, CONFIRM), May 2011

7. Collection of Repetitive Monomorphic Ventricular Ectopic Originating from Aortic

Cusps, March 2011

8. A week of atypical tachycardia, (The beauty of all Pacing Maneuvers), February 2011

9. M & M Conference (A tangled catheter, Chest Pain after Flutter Ablation, High DFTs in

renal patients) March 2011

10. What is the Reason beyond all this VT and ICD Shocks? Pro-arrhythmic ICD Leads &

therapeutic VT ablation & discussion, January 2011

11. Focal Automatic VT arising at the border of a fibrotic post MI area, January 2011

12. CFAE & Updated 2011 Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines, December 2010

13. M & M Conference (Delayed extraction, Tamponade) December 2010

14. 5-Hour Case of Pacing Maneuvers in a Previously Failed ablation Case, Dual

Arrhythmias, December 2010

15. AHA Presentations 2010, (ROCKET-AF, SMART-AV, Omega-3), November 2010

16. Left-Sided Atrial Tachycardia, November 2010

17. A baffling ECG (Atrial Tachycardia with 2:1 Atrioventricular Block), October 2010

18. M & M Conference (Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis, Tamponade during PVI,

Arrest post DFT testing), October 2010

19. Lead Extractions: HCM Case with Abandoned Left-sided Leads and High DFTs (To

Extract or Not), September 2010

20. Up-to-date Catheter Management of Atrial Fibrillation & its Modalities, August 2010

21. Ventricular Arrhythmias in the Normal Hearts; Right-ventricular Outflow Tract RVOT &

its Likeness, August 2010


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22. A Case of Persistent Left-Sided Post-Op Atrial Flutter & Determined Physicians, August

2010

23. Atrioventricular Reciprocating Tachycardia, characteristics of AVRT & Concealed

Bypass Tract ablation, July 2010

24. Common Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter, June 2010

25. Very Complex Case of Focal reentrant Left-atrial tachycardia and Peri-mitral atrial flutter

that required ablation via endocardial and epicardial access, November, 2009

26. Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia, Case Presentation, Management and Literature Review,

September, 2009

CLINICAL TRIALS PARTICIPATION : (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR*)

1. FINESSE Trial: A multicenter randomized double blind, placebo-controlled trial

comparing the efficacy and safety of Reteplase and Abciximab combination therapy with

Abciximab alone administered early or just prior to primary percutaneous coronary

interventions for acute myocardial infarction. Facilitated Intervention with Enhanced

Reperfusion Speed to Stop Events Sponsor: Centocor Inc.

2. TRA-CER: A multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to

Evaluate the safety and efficacy of SCH 530348 in Addition to standard of care in

subjects with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Thrombin Receptor Antagonist for Clinical

Event Reduction in Acute Coronary Syndrome. Sponsor: Schering-Plough.

3. INTENSIVE: A multi-center, phase 3b, stratified, randomized open-label clinical trial to

evaluate the efficacy of Intensive Apidra® /Lantus® therapy versus Sliding Scale Insulin

on infarct size in hyperglycemic subjects with Anterior STEMI (ST elevation myocardial

infarction) undergoing PCI (Percutaneous coronary intervention). Sponsor: Sanofi-

Aventis.

4. FIX-HF-5: A randomized, placebo, controlled, unblinded trial to evaluate a new

investigational system called OPTIMIZER for treating patients with heart failure.

Sponsor: Impulse Dynamics.

5. IMPROVE-IT: is an international, multi-center, randomized, double-blind active

comparator trial that will enroll approximately 10,000 high risk patients with ACS,

including unstable angina (UA), non-ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction

(NSTEMI) and ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI). Patients will

be randomized to either VYTORIN 10/40 mg or Simvastatin 40 mg per day. Patients will

be followed for over two years. Sponsor: Merck/Schering-Plough.

6. CURRENT/OASIS7: Randomized, Double-Blind,Dose Comparison, Factorial

Assignment, Efficacy Study Clopidogrel Optimal Loading Dose Usage to Reduce

Recurrent EveNTs/ Optimal Antiplatelet Strategy for InterventionS. Sponsor: Sanofi-

Aventis.

7. PACE-MI: Pacemakers and beta-blocker Therapy after Myocardial Infarction.

Interventional, Treatment, Randomized, NIH funded, Open Label, Placebo Control,

Parallel Assignment, and Efficacy Study. Sponsor: NIHLB.


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8. COGENT-1: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy, Parallel Group, Phase 3

Efficacy and Safety Study of CGT-2168 Compared With Clopidogrel to Reduce Upper

Gastrointestinal Events Including Bleeding and Symptomatic Ulcer Disease. Sponsor:

Cogentus Pharmaceuticals

9. OBSERV-ECG: Non-randomized, prospective, observational multi-center study.

Observational Study of the Sleuth Implantable ECG Monitoring System. Sponsor:

Transoma Medical

10. BOAT: Randomized, open label, dose comparison, parallel assignment, safety/efficacy

study. Beta-Blocker Uptitration with OptiVol after CRT. Sponsor: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt

Hospital.

11. RED-HF: Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study to access the efficacy and

safety of Darbepoetin Alfa treatment on mortality and morbidity in Heart Failure subjects

with symptomatic Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction and Anemia. Reduction of

Events with Darbepoetin Alfa in Heart Failure. Sponsor: Amgen

12. TOPCAT: Multi-center, international, randomized, double blind placebo-controlled trail

of aldosterone antagonist spironolactone, in 4500 adults with heart failure and left

ventricular ejection fraction of at least 45%. Treatment of Preserved Cardiac function

heart failure with an Aldosterone antagonist. Sponsor: NIHLB.

13. REVERT: Randomized controlled trial of cardiac resynchronization therapy comparing

conventional placement of Left ventricular lead vs. robotic placement. Sponsor:

Medtronic.

14. Ventricular arrhythmias in the North American Multidisciplinary Study of ARVD.

Sponsor: NIH Grant.

15. WBC Trial: Who Benefits from Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy? Sponsor: St. Jude

Medical

16. HeartLight Study: Prospective Multicenter Randomized, Visually-Guided Laser Balloon

(VGLB) Pulmonary Vein Isolation for the Treatment of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

(PAF). Sponsor: CardioFocus

17. SMART-AV: Randomized, multicenter, double-blinded, non-significant risk, three-armed

trail. Comparison of AV optimization Methods Used in Cardiac Resynchronization

Therapy. Sponsor: Boston Scientific

18. AF-CRT: The effect of Biventricular Pacing on the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation. A

Multi-center, prospective trial. Sponsor: Boston Scientific

19. ASPEN: Test the efficacy of AF suppression algorithm in patents with implantable

cardioverter defibrillators. Sponsor: St. Jude Medical

20. DETERMINE: Defibrillators to reduce risk by magnetic resonance imaging evaluation

in patients with coronary artery disease to help find other methods for identifying those

who may be at risk for developing abnormal heart rhythms that might result in sudden

cardiac death. Sponsor: St. Jude Medical.


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21. RO4607381/JTT-705 (Dalcetrapib): A phase III, double-blind, randomized placebo-

controlled study, to evaluate the effects of dalcetrapib on cardiovascular risk in stable

CHD patients, with a documented recent Acute Coronary Syndrome. Sponsor: Roche.

22. Pulmonary Vein Isolation Outcomes with Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Sponsor: Glaxo Smith Klein.

23. CABANA Trial: Catheter Ablation versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial

Fibrillation Trial. Sponsor: NIHLB

24. REPLACE Registry: multicenter trial to examine a broad range of complications related

to replacement of all companies’ cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIED)

which includes both pacemakers and ICDs. Sponsor: BIOTRONIK

25. BLOCK-HF: Biventricular versus Right Ventricular Pacing in Heart Failure Patients

with Atrioventricular Block. A prospective, multi-center, randomized, double-blind,

controlled trial. Sponsor: Medtronic.

26. PALLAS: A randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, parallel group trial assessing

the clinical benefit Dronedarone 400 mg BID on top of standard therapy in patients with

permanent atrial fibrillation (PAF) and additional risk factors. Sponsor: Sanofi-Avantis.

27. DETECT-AF: A Placebo-Controlled, Double-blind, Randamized, Multi-Center Study to

Assess the Effects of Dronedarone 400 mg for 12 Weeks on Atrial Fibrillation Burden in

Subjects with Permanent Pacemakers. Sponsor: Sanofi-Avantis.

28. DRONE_L_04316: The effect of Dronedarone on AF burden based on electrogram

(EGM) data in subjects with a permanent pacemaker. Sponsor: Sanofi-Avantis.

29. Pulmonary Vein isolation for Rhythm Control in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Left

Ventricular Dysfunction: A pilot Study. Sponsor: Biosense Webster. Inc.

30. ODYSSEY Outcomes Trial: Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial with Antibody to PCSK9 for

Hypercholesterolemia. Sponsor: Sanofi-Avantis.

31. Echo-CRT*: A prospective, international, multicenter, double-blinded, randomized,

parallel-group, controlled trial, to evaluate the effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy

on mortality and morbidity of subjects with heart failure and narrow QRS width (<130

ms) and echocardiographic evidence of ventricular dyssynchrony. Sponsor:

BIOTRONIK.

32. MADIT-RIT*: Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial: Reduce

Inappropriate Therapy. Sponsor: Boston Scientific.

33. AIGIS*: Anti-Bacterial Envelope for Prevention of Infection Following Cardiac Rhythm

Management Device Replacement With a Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Device;

CRT-Centurion, A Multicenter, Prospective Registry. Sponsor: TYRX, Inc.

34. NAVISTAR THERMoCOOL*: Catheter for the Radiofrequency Ablation of

Symptomatic Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation, post Approval Registry PMA

#P030031/S014. Sponsor: Biosense Webster. Inc.

35. RAID*: Ranolazine ICD Trial. Late Sodium Current Blockade in High-Risk ICD Patients

University of Rochester. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH).


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36. MADIT-PARS*: Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac

Resynchronization Therapy – Post Approval Registry Study. Sponsor: University of

Rochester.

37. VEST Trial*: Vest Prevention of Early Sudden Death Trial. University of California, San

Francisco. Sponsor: Zoll Medical Corporation

38. VEST Registry*: Vest Prevention of Early Sudden Death Registry. University of

California, San Francisco. Sponsor: Zoll Medical Corporation

39. CHRC QT Registry*: The Canadian Heart Research Centre QT Registry. Sponsor:

CardioComm Solutions, Inc

40. RESPOND-CRT*: Clinical Trial of the SonRtip Lead and Automatic AV-VV

Optimization Algorithm in the PARADYM RF SonR CRT-D. Sponsor: Sorin Group.

41. GLORIA-AF* Global Registry on Long-term Oral Anti-thrombotic Treatment In Patients

with Atrial Fibrillation. Sponsor: Boehringer Inglheim Pharmaceuticals.

42. SDD for ICD* Safety and Cost Effectiveness of Same Day Discharge after Implantable

Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implant vs. Next Day Discharge. Sponsor: SJM.

43. T89-07-CAESA a Phase III Trial to Confirm the Anti-anginal Effect of T89 in Patients

with Stable Angina. Sponsor: Tasly Pharmaceutical.

44. CAS RESPOND CRT* Continued Access Clinical Trial of the SonRtip Lead and

Automatic AV-VV Optimization Algorithm in the PARADYM RF SonR CRT-D.

Sponsor: Sorin Group.

45. TEMPO*, Evaluating Ventricular Arrhythmia in Subjects with Implantable Cardioverter

Defibrillator or Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Defibrillator in patients with VT/VF.

GS-6615 is a late sodium current inhibitor being evaluated as an adjunct therapy to

reduce ventricular arrhythmia in patients with ICD. Sponsor: Gilead Sciences.

46. WRAP-IT*, World-wide Randomized Antibiotic EnveloPe Infection PrevenTion Trial.

Sponsor: TYRX, Inc, Medtronic.

47. QP ExCELs Study*, Sentus QP Extended CRT Evaluation with Quadripolar Left

Ventricular Leads. Sponsor: Biotronik.

INVESTIGATOR INITIATED TRIALS : (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR*)

1. RAPID Trial*: A double blind, placebo-controlled trial comparing the efficacy of

Ranolazine (RANEXA®) in preventing early post-operative occurrence of Atrial

Fibrillation in PVI Patients. Sponsor: GILEAD.

2. Dr-COPD Trial*: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to Evaluate the

efficacy of Dronedarone (MULTAQ®) in Addition to standard of care in subjects with

Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and Atrial Arrhythmias. Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis U.S.

3. LVP-HOCM Trial: Temporary Left Ventricular Pacing in Obstructive Hypertrophic

Cardiomyopathy. An acute pacing study performed on patients with HCM referred to the

Arrrhythmia Service for device therapy. This may be either for pacing for gradient


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reduction or for an implanted defibrillator for sudden death prevention. Sponsor: Boston

Scientific Corporation

4. SAF-ILR Trial*: SAFety and Cost Effectiveness of Same Day Discharge after Injectable

Loop Recorder Implantation vs. Telemetry Observation in the Hospital, for patients

presenting with Syncope. Sponsor: Medtronic

RESEARCH GRANTS & APPLICATIONS :

1. ATACS-HTN: Assessing Prevalence, Treatment modalities, clinical Outcome and

Quality of life in Hypertensive patients presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome Using

Novel Pathway for the Management of In-Hospital HyperTensioN. Sponsor: Forest

Research Institute, Inc. Grant Amount: $15,000

2. ESCAPE 2009 Symposium: Novel Pathway for low Ejection fraction and Sudden

Cardiac death Awareness and Prevention Eligibility. Sponsor: St. Jude Medical &

Medtronic. Grant Amount: $ 14,000

3. E-STOP: A Registry for the Evaluation of Syncope, its Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcome

and Prognosis Using our SELF-Pathway. Sponsor: TRANSOMA Medical. Grant

Amount: $ 100,000

4. MOHCA: Pathway for the Management of Survivors of Out of the Hospital Cardiac

Arrest. Sponsor: ZOLL Systems. Grant Amount: $ 10,000

5. CORE-AFIB: Pathway for management of atrial fibrillation/flutter. Sponsor: Sanofi-

Avantis Grant Amount: $ 100,000

6. ESCAPE 2012 Symposium: Novel Pathway for low Ejection fraction and Sudden

Cardiac death Awareness and Prevention Eligibility. Sponsor: Medtronic. Grant

Amount: $ 8,000

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