AmitVarmaMDPhD, FACC, FHFSA
Cardiology • Lancaster, PAHeart Failure & Transplantation, Cardiac Critical Care
The Heart Group of LGH at Penn Medicine
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Office
217 Harrisburg Ave
Lancaster, PA 17603Phone+1 717-544-8300Fax+1 717-299-4266
Summary
- Dr. Amit Varma is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist in Lancaster, PA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and has been in practice 11 years. He also speaks multiple languages, including Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu. He specializes in cardio-oncology, adult congenital heart disease, heart failure & transplantation, and cardiac critical care and is experienced in transplant cardiology, systolic heart failure, congestive heart failure, heart failure and transplantation, and vad management.
Education & Training
University of Massachusetts MBA, Healthcare Administration , 2020 - 2023
Virginia Commonwealth University Health SystemFellowship, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, 2014 - 2015- Virginia Commonwealth University Health SystemResidency, Internal Medicine, 2006 - 2013
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of MedicinePhD, Physiology and Biophysics , Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2008 - 2012
- Virginia Commonwealth University Health SystemFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2009 - 2011
Virginia Commonwealth University School of MedicineClass of 2006
Certifications & Licensure
PA State Medical License 2015 - 2024
VA State Medical License 2008 - 2018- American Board of Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
- Certification Board of Nuclear CardiologyNuclear Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Top 40 Physicians under 40 in PA PA Medical Society, 2018
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 308 citationsInterleukin-1 Blockade With Anakinra to Prevent Adverse Cardiac Remodeling After Acute Myocardial Infarction (Virginia Commonwealth University Anakinra Remodeling Tria...Antonio Abbate, Michael C. Kontos, John D. Grizzard, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Benjamin W. Van Tassell
The American Journal of Cardiology. 2010-05-15 - 281 citationsEffects of interleukin-1 blockade with anakinra on adverse cardiac remodeling and heart failure after acute myocardial infarction [from the Virginia Commonwealth Unive...Antonio Abbate, Benjamin W. Van Tassell, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Michael C. Kontos, John D. Grizzard
The American Journal of Cardiology. 2013-05-15 - 8 citationsSafety of drug-eluting stents in patients with left ventricular dysfunction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.Annunziata Nusca, Michael J. Lipinski, Amit Varma, Darryn L. Appleton, Evelyne Goudreau
The American Journal of Cardiology. 2008-09-15
Committees
- member, Hospital Organ Procurement and Transplant Committee 2013 - Present
- Member, Institutional Review Board 2010 - Present
Professional Memberships
- Fellow
- Member
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- Heart Failure Society of AmericaFellow
Other Languages
- Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
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