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Office
200 Lothrop St
Ste N-715
Pittsburgh, PA 15213Phone+1 412-692-4700
Education & Training
- UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Advanced Cardiac Imaging, 2022 - 2023
- UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2019 - 2022
- UPMC Medical EducationResidency, Internal Medicine, 2016 - 2019
- University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineClass of 2016
Certifications & Licensure
- MD State Medical License 2023 - 2025
- DC State Medical License 2023 - 2024
- PA State Medical License 2016 - 2024
- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
- Certification Board of Cardiovascular Magnetic ResonaceDiplomate
- National Board of EchocardiographyDilpomate
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Western Pennsylvania American College of Cardiology Fellows in Training Representative American College of Cardiology, 2020-2021
- Alpha Omega Alpha Member Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2019
- 2019 ICNC Best Regional Poster International Conference of Nuclear Cardiology, 2019
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 46 citationsEfficient 1-Hour Technetium-99 m Pyrophosphate Imaging Protocol for the Diagnosis of Transthyretin Cardiac AmyloidosisAhmad Masri, Syed Bukhari, Shahzad Ahmad, Ricardo Nieves, Yvonne S. Eisele
Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging. 2020-02-17 - 21 citationsPrevalence of Atrial Fibrillation and Thromboembolic Risk in Wild-Type Transthyretin Amyloid CardiomyopathySyed Bukhari, Amr F. Barakat, Yvonne S. Eisele, Ricardo Nieves, Sandeep Jain
Circulation. 2021-03-30 - 5 citationsIncreased Mortality in Patients With Preoperative and Persistent Postoperative Pulmonary Hypertension Undergoing Mitral Valve Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation: A Cohor...Michael V. Genuardi, Daniel Shpilsky, Adam Handen, Gabrielle Vanspeybroeck, Ann Canterbury
Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021-03-02
Abstracts/Posters
- SPECT Myocardial Blood Flow in Allograft VasculopathyR. Nieves, S. Bukhari, J. Diez, K, Hyanl, R. Sriwattanakomen, G. Hickey, M. Keebler, P. Soman, ASNC 2020 Annual Conference, Washington D.C., 9/2020
- Initial results from a newly established solid state SPECT myocardial flow quantification programR. Nieves, J. Dietz, P. Soman, 2019 International Nuclear Cardiology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 5/2019
- Predictors of Short-term Mortality in Heart Failure Patients Referred for Tc-99m Pyp ScintigraphyA. Masri, S. Ahmad, R. Nieves, W. Follansbee, P. Soman, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 2018, San Francisco, California, 9/2018
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Authored Content
- Patients Can Heal Doctors As WellJune 2020
- Times Such As TheseApril 2020
- The Devil is in the Details: Combination Medications, Oversedation, and Unnecessary Testing in the Geriatric PopulationSeptember 2018
- Support research into gun violence: Congress should remove obstacles to academic studies that might help us reduce the death tollApril 2018
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Professional Memberships
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Other Languages
- Spanish
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