Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Medicine
·
2019 - Present
Medicine, Cardiology,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Resection of Intrapericardial Lymphangioma Invasive to Ventricular Apex via Left Anterolateral Thoracotomy
Journal Article Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports · March 1, 2026 Here we describe a case of an intrapericardial mass identified in a patient with endocarditis and severe mitral regurgitation. Despite preoperative imaging suggestive of a pericardial origin, intraoperatively the mass was found to invade the apical ventric ... Full text CitePrognostic Value of Papillary Muscle Scarring in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
Journal Article JAMA Cardiol · December 1, 2025 IMPORTANCE: Papillary muscle scarring (papSCAR) can occur without epicardial coronary artery disease, likely due to microvascular dysfunction. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has been associated with microvascular dysfunction; the prevalence and prognostic si ... Full text Link to item CiteAtypical Presentation of an Increasingly Recognized Disease: Transthyretin Amyloidosis Presenting With 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake on Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography and Focal Late Gadolinium Enhancement on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance.
Journal Article Circ Heart Fail · June 2025 Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Registry
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by MedStar Health Research Institute · 2021 - 2025T1 Mapping vs Contrast Enhanced CMR for the Detection of Chronic MI
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Guerbet · 2020 - 2022HCMR.2 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Registry
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by MedStar Health Research Institute · 2019 - 2021View All Grants
Education
Washington University in St. Louis ·
1998
M.D.