
Amit Desai MD
Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Failure & Transplantation
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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75 Francis StreetBrigham And Women's Hospital Cardiovascular DivisionBoston, MA 02115
Phone+1 857-307-4000
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Education & Training
- Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's HospitalFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2001 - 2004
- Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1998
Certifications & Licensure
- MA State Medical License 2000 - 2025
- ME State Medical License 2011 - 2019
- American Board of Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2012
- Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
Clinical Trials
- Ventricular-Vascular Coupling in Heart Failure Start of enrollment: 2004 Jan 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Ventricular-arterial coupling is associated with clinical outcomes in patients with systemic right ventricle.Giulia Pasqualin, Amrit Misra, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Stephen P Sanders, Akshay S Desai
American Heart Journal. 2025-07-01 - Prognostic Significance of Nutritional Scores in Patients With Heart Failure: Insights From the PARAGON-HF Trial.Henri Lu, Brian L Claggett, Masatoshi Minamisawa, John W Ostrominski, Alberto Foà
Journal of the American Heart Association. 2025-04-23 - Comprehensive Analysis of the Effects of Sacubitril/Valsartan According to Sex Among Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction in PARADIGM-HF.Misato Chimura, Jawad H Butt, Shingo Matsumoto, Eoghan G M McMurray, Alasdair D Henderson
Journal of the American Heart Association. 2025-04-23
Journal Articles
- Remote Optimization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection FractionAkshay S Desai, Thomas Gaziano, Benjamin Scirica, Calum A Macrae, JAMA Cardiology
- Effect of Dapagliflozin on Worsening Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Death in Patients with Heart Failure with and Without DiabetesAkshay S Desai, Mikhail N Kosiborod, Marc S Sabatine, JAMA
- Navigator-Driven Remote Optimization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Program Design and Initial Fe...Thomas A Gaziano, Calum A Macrae, Benjamin M Scirica, Akshay S Desai, Journal of Cardiac Failure
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Lectures
- Setting up an Ambulatory Hemodynamic Clinic:The Essentials2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/18/2019
- Test Your Knowledge: Heart Failure and Arrhythmias2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/17/2019
- Best of ACC.13: Take Home Messages for the Clinician (Boston)American College of Cardiology Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts - 4/26/2013
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Authored Content
- Prognostic Models Derived in PARADIGM-HF and Validated in ATMOSPHERE and the Swedish Heart Failure Registry to Predict Mortality and Morbidity in Chronic Heart FailureApril 2020
- Navigator-Driven Remote Optimization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Program Design and Initial FeasibilityAugust 2018
- 2017 Cardiovascular and Stroke Endpoint Definitions for Clinical TrialsMarch 2017
Press Mentions
- AIM-POWER: Remote, App-Based Intervention Boosts GDMT Use in HFrEFFebruary 13th, 2025
- Systolic Blood Pressure and Pulse Pressure in Heart Failure: Pooled Participant-Level Analysis of Four TrialsNovember 21st, 2024
- GDMT Uptake Remains Dismal in HFrEF: What’s the Right Fix?November 13th, 2024
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