Because of the long history of clinical innovation and research here at CPMC, scholarly activity remains a vital part of fellowship training. State-of-the-art programs in advanced heart failure, transplant cardiology, structural intervention and electrophysiology have brought multiple multicenter clinical trials to the institution over the recent years, including PIONEER, MOMENTUM 3, GALACTIC-HF, INTELLECT-2, GUIDE HF, SHORE, CardiAMP, COAPT, ENCIRCLE, PERSISTENT; these programs have also conducted institutional clinical trials such as EARLY TAVR, PARNER 3, REPRISE IV. Fellows also have access to national registry databases, Sutter-wide databases, and Bay Area databases through ongoing close collaborations with UCSF and Kaiser.
Research at CPMC Cardiology Fellowship Program
Databases Available for Fellows
CPMC Databases
- Apollo cardiac databases (Cath/PCI, ACTION ACS, STS Cardiac Surgery, Atrial Fibrillation Ablation, Stroke Management)
- McKesson (cath lab, electrophysiology, interventional radiology)
- MIDAS (JCACHO core measures, ICD-9, ICD-10 discharge data, readmission data)
- Adult congenital program database
- OTTR transplant database (clinical data in PATS/Axis)
- EPIC/Clarity backend database
Sutter-wide Databases
- Apollo cardiac databases (11 cath labs, 6 cardiac surgery programs)
- MIDAS (23 Sutter hospitals: admission/discharge codes, readmission data)
- EPIC/Clarity backend database
Bay Area Databases
- Framingham/UCSF/CPMC collaboration—Dr. Nelson Schiller
- Heart and Soul (VA/UCSF)—Dr. Nelson Schiller, Dr. Mary Whooley
- Mind Your Heart (VA/UCSF)—Dr. Beth Cohen
- Kaiser clinical data system (collaboration with Kaiser cardiologist)
National Databases
- ACC-NCDR Registries
- Cath/PCI
- ICD
- ACTION-GWTG (ASC)
- AHA-GWTG (HF)
- PINNACLE (ambulatory care)
- IMPACT (pediatric and adult congenital)
- STS National Registry
- Adult cardiac surgery
- ACC/STS/CMS (PCI and CABG)
- STS/ACC TVT (Transcatheter valve repair/replacement)
Publication and Presentations
Manuscript Publications
Singhal P, Goodman R, Ghasem W, Yau S, Liu G, Laughrun D, Kwan Saving Time and Money: Effectiveness of Outpatient Echocardiogram Utilization Review at an Academic Safety Net Hospital. J Cardiovasc Dis Diagn. 10 (2022): 488.
Singhal P, Kwan W, Kanjanauthai Multivalvular Staphylococcus Lugdunensis Endocarditis Causing Complete Heart Block After TAVR. Case Reports in Cardiology. 2021 Nov 1.
Brennan JM, Al-Hejily W, Dai D, Shaw RE, Trilesskaya M, Rao SV, Brilakis ES, Anstrom KJ, Messenger JC, Peterson ED, Douglas PS, Sketch MH. Three-year outcomes associated with embolic protection in saphenous vein graft intervention: Results in 49,325 senior patients in the Medicare-linked National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2015 8(3): e001403.
Wong JM, Chandra M, VanDeBogart R, Lu B, Yee A. Clinical reasoning: A 27-year-old man with rapidly progressive coma. Neurology. 2015 1;85(9):e74-8.
Wong JM, Lombardo DM, Barseghian A, Dhoot J, Hundal HS, Salcedo J, Paganini-Hill A, Wong ND, Fisher M. Front Neurol. 2015 24;6:57.
Brennan JM, Sketch MH, Dai D, Trilesskaya M, Al-Hejily W, Rao SV, Brilakis E, Messenger JC, Shaw RE, Anstrom KJ, Peterson ED, Douglas PS. Safety and clinical effectiveness of drug-eluting stents for saphenous vein graft intervention in older individuals: Results from the medicare-linked National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry (2005-2009). Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 1;87(1):43-9.
Govil A, Hao SC. Integration of new technology into clinical practice after FDA approval. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2016 47(1):19-27.
Wong JM, Fisher M. The potential role of the left atrial septal pouch in cryptogenic stroke. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2016;14(1):1-3.
Abuzaid A, Cohen BE, Prusnani S, Lahsaeizadeh S, Ristow B, Shaw RE, Rosenblatt A, Fang Q, Schiller NB. Who is young at heart and when? Diastolic Doppler data from the Mind Your Heart study. Echocardiography. 2019 36(9):1744-6.
Lai E, Alishetti S, Wong JM, Delic L, Egrie G, Rosenblatt A. Right ventricular thrombus in transit: raising the stakes in the management of pulmonary embolism. CASE (Phila). 2019 2;3(6):272-6.
Lai E, Ray R, Hongo R. Dual sinus nodes with donor sinus node dysfunction in biatrial heart transplantation. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 1;179(7):975-6.
Canpolat U, Faggioni M, Della Rocca DG, Chen Q, Ayhan H, Vu AA, Mohanty S, Trivedi C, Gianni C, Bassiouny M, Al-Ahmad A, Burkhardt JD, Sanchez JE, Gallinghouse GJ, Natale A, Horton RP. State of fluoroless procedures in cardiac electrophysiology practice. J Innov Card Rhythm Manag. 2020 15;11(3):4018-29.
Wong JM, Maddox TM, Kennedy K, Shaw RE. Comparing major bleeding risk in outpatients with atrial fibrillation of flutter by oral anticoagulant type (from the National Cardiovascular Disease Registry’s Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence Registry). Am J Cardiol. 2020 15;125(10):1500-7.
Thadani SR, Shaw RE, Fang Q, Whooley MA, Schiller NB. Left atrial end-diastolic volume index as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes: The Heart and Soul Study. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 13(4):3009746.
Agrawal H, Choy HK, Liu J, Auyoung M, Albert MA. Coronary artery disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2020 40(7):e185-92.
Abstracts and Presentations
Singhal P, Rao S, Lai E, Daniels D, Wong J. Acute Encephalopathy: An Atypical Presentation of Acute Flail Mitral Valve. American College of Cardiology (March 2023), New Orleans, LA.
Patel S, Kingsford P, Singhal P, Valdivia D, Hashmi S, Lee R, Vaidya A, Wolfson A, DePasquale E. Outcomes of Patients Bridged to Heart Transplantation with ECMO following UNOS Allocation Policy Change. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2022), Boston, MA.
Valdivia D, Singhal P, Hashmi S, Patel S, Kingsford P, Lee R, Vaidya A, Wolfson A, DePasquale E. Heart Transplant Outcomes and Trends in Pre-Transplant Impella Use. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2022), Boston, MA.
Singhal P, Liu G, Nadeswaran P, Miller SR, Motiani M, Latz M, Van Herle H. Improving Utilization of SGLT2 Inhibitors Via Education at a Single-Center Academic Safety-net Hospital. American College of Cardiology (April 2022), Washington D.C (virtual).
Ramos M, Goodman R, Aldea DA, Saffarian M, Singhal P, Miklin DJ, Kingsford P, Kwong J, Onaka L, Patel S, Centen C, Smith S, Yazdi D, Fong M. Outpatient Heart Failure Monitoring with a Novel Cardiac Scale: Tracking Volume Status. American College of Cardiology (April 2022), Washington D.C.
Devera J, Lin S, Singhal P, Marks J. Adherence to Guidelines for Heart Rate in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease in the Primary Care Setting. American Heart Association (Nov 2021), Boston, MA (virtual).
Singhal P, Liu G, Miller SR, Latz M, Motiani M, Van Herle H. Clinical Practice Patterns and Attitudes about Prescribing SGLT2 Inhibitors at a Single-Center Academic Safety-Net Hospital. American College of Cardiology (May 2021), Atlanta, GA (virtual).
Singhal P, Kwan W, Barajas S, Gabra F, Wallace WD, Kanjanauthai S. Recurrent Multivalvular Endocarditis in a Post-TAVR Patient. American College of Cardiology (May 2021), Atlanta, GA (virtual).
Miller S, Singhal P, Patel S, Vaidya A, Wolfson A, DePasquale E. Effects of Donor Alcohol Use on Heart Transplant Outcomes. American College of Cardiology (May 2021), Atlanta, GA (virtual).
Singhal P, Genyk P, Miller S, Wolfson A, Vaidya AS, DePasquale E. Comparison of 6-Month Post- Heart Transplant Survival Between Status 1A Versus Status 1-3 Recipients Before and After the UNOS Allocation Policy Change. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2021), Toronto, CA (virtual).
Genyk P, Singhal P, Vaidya AS, Wolfson A, DePasquale E. Waitlist Outcomes in Status 1A versus Status 1-3 Heart Transplant Candidates Before and After the UNOS Allocation Policy
Change. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2021), Toronto, CA (virtual).
Abarca P, Patel S, Li J, Saffarian M, Singhal P, Liu G, Grazette L, Pizula J, Banankhah P, Vaidya A, Wolfson A, DePasquale E. Post-Heart Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Before and After the 2018 UNOS Heart Allocation Policy Change. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2021), Toronto, CA (virtual).
Miller SR, Sharma A, Saffarian M, Singhal P, Yang K, Miklin D, Vaidya A, Wolfson A, DePasquale
Comparison of Six-Month Post-Heart Transplant Survival Between Status 1B/2 and Status 4-6 Recipients Before and After the UNOS Allocation System Change. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2021), Toronto, CA (virtual).
Miklin D, Bradley P, Lee R, Singhal P, Miller S, Genyk P, Saffarian M, Hashmi S, Kingsford P, Patel S, Lum C, Salimbangon A, Wolfson A, Vaidya A, DePasquale E. Impact of UNOS Policy Allocation Change on Waitlist Outcomes in Patients Bridged to Heart Transplant with an Intra-Aortic Balloon
Pump. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2021), Toronto, CA (virtual).
Miklin D, Lee A, Rosen B, Salimbangon A, Cochran A, Singhal P, Miller S, Saffarian M, Onwuzurike J, Kingsford P, Li J, Yang K, Wolfson A, Vaidya A, Depasquale E. Incidence and Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients: The USC Experience. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (April 2021), Toronto, CA (virtual).
Lahsaei S, Hassan K, Beyer A, Hui P, Kumar R. Percutaneous closure of an ascending aortic root pseudoaneurysm leak. Poster: TCT 2015, San Francisco, CA
Hassan K. Lyme carditis: Pause it! Poster: SGIM 2015 International Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Lai E, Xu S, Bhatia A, Mulock M, Karas MG, Segal AZ, Gerber LM, Devereux RB, Kizer JR. Prevalence of intrapulmonary shunting by contemporary contrast transthoracic echocardiography: implications for diagnosis in hepatopulmonary syndrome and etiology of cryptogenic stroke. Poster: ASE 2015 Scientific Sessions, Boston, MA
Gade V, Hui PY, Brewster J, Shaw RE. Influences on adoption of radial artery access versus femoral artery access in acute myocardial infarction patient undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention and their outcomes – a multicenter experience. Poster: SCAI 2016 Scientific Sessions, Orlando, Florida
Hassan K, Lahsaei S, Beyer A, Hongo R. A Reminder of Treatments Past. Poster: ACC 2016 Scientific Sessions, Chicago, IL
Lahsaei S, Govil A, Wong JM, Brewster J, Beyer A, Shaw RE. Outcomes of Single versus Dual Antiplatelet Therapy with Target Specific Oral Anticoagulant Agents in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Coronary Artery Intervention. Poster: ACC 2016 Scientific Sessions, Chicago, IL
Gade V, Brewster J, Hui P, Shaw RE. Comparison of factors related to 30-day and 2-year outcomes in acute coronary syndrome patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Poster: ACC 2016 Scientific Sessions, Chicago, IL
Wong JM, Kennedy K, Shaw R. Major bleeding risk in outpatients with atrial fibrillation on oral anticoagulation: Insights from the NCDR PINNACLE Registry. Poster: ACC 2016 Scientific Sessions, Chicago, IL
Alishetti S, Karlsberg D, Tran N, Milechman G, Egrie E. Bacterial endocarditis in a patient with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot: A rare case of a homograft right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit acute obstruction. Poster: ACC 2017 Scientific Sessions, Washington DC
Alishetti S, Sweta B, Rosenblatt A. The geneticist with unfortunate genes: coronary artery disease in myotonic dystrophy. Poster: ACC 2017 Scientific Sessions, Washington DC
Alishetti S, Walsh J, Shaw RE, Daniels DV. Time of TAVR Coronary Angiography (TOTCA): A safe and efficient way forward. Presentation: SCAI 2018 Scientific Sessions, San Diego, CA
Enders C, Zheng H, Bibby D, Wang C, Swears C, Dai Y, Miranda G, Alishetti S, Yang J, Yan E, Al Sabouni R, Morris E, Hongo R, Hao S, Natale A, Beheiry S, Shaw RE, Schiller NB, Rosenblatt AR. Association of left atrial function by echocardiography in patients following catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: comparing functional indices and strain to predict clinical outcomes. Presentation: ASE 2018 Scientific Sessions, Nashville, TN
Choy HK, Hui P. Rescuing victory from the jaws of defeat: retrieval of embolized ASD septal occluder device. Poster: Bay Area Interventional Cardiology Conference 2018, San Francisco, CA
Choy HK, Daniels DV. Shockwave lithotripsy assisted PTCA in a right coronary artery CTO. Poster: TCT 2019, San Francisco, CA
Lai E, Alishetti S, Wong J, Delic L, Egrie G, Rosenblatt A. Right ventricular thrombus in transit: raising the stakes in the management of pulmonary embolism. Poster: ACC 2019 Scientific Session, New Orleans, LA
Wong J, Lai E, Beyer A. Hypereosinophilic syndrome: a harbinger of fulminant eosinophilic myocarditis. Poster: ACC 2019 Scientific Session, New Orleans, LA
Hsiao S, Tsai S, Pham M, Herr J. Recurrence of cardiac sarcoidosis 7 years post heart transplant. Poster: ACC 2019 Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, LA
Choy HK, Hui P. Rescuing victory from the jaws of defeat: Perclose closure device fracture and retrieval by snare. Poster: Bay Area Interventional Cardiology Conference 2019, San Francisco, CA
Choy HK, Vu AA, Rosenblatt, AR. Congenital heart disease in Downs syndrome. Presentation: Bay Area Adult Congenital Heart Disease Conference 2019, San Francisco, CA
Choy HK, Egrie G, Rosenblatt AR. Secondary residual shunt after transcatheter ASD closure. Presentation: CSI San Francisco 2019, San Francisco, CA
Hsiao S, Moser H, Wong J, Fang Q, Bibby D, Rosenblatt A, Schiller N. Transpulmonary and diastolic pulmonary artery pressure gradients by Doppler: values in normal subjects and composite CV outcomes in ambulatory stable coronary artery disease. Virtual Poster: ASE 2020 Scientific Sessions
Auyoung MS, Wong JM, Ly V, Rao S, Hsiao S, Fang Q, Bibby D, Rosenblatt A, Schiller NB. Pulmonary vein flow by Doppler predicts cardiovascular outcomes. Virtual Poster: ASE 2020 Scientific Sessions
Liu J, Young M, Wong J, Hsiao S, Fang Q, Bibby D, Rosenblatt A, Schiller N. Mean pulmonary artery pressure by Doppler echocardiography and risk of major adverse cardiovascular outcomes: The Heart and Soul Study. Virtual Poster: ASE 2020 Scientific Sessions
Hsiao S, Young M, Tsai S, Yee R, Hui P. Functional mitral stenosis seen after trans-jugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in a patient with prior history of mitral valve repair with annuloplasty ring. Virtual Poster: ACC 2020 Scientific Sessions
Moser H, Hsiao S, Tsai S, Yee R, Lee C, Hongo RH. Decompensated heart failure due to a new diagnosis of WPW in an elderly woman. Virtual Poster: ACC 2020 Scientific Sessions
Shin S, Hsiao S, Ratican S, Hershon J, Jeske S, Hamerski C, Flagg E, Xie Y, Pham M. Small cell carcinoma presenting as a massive biatrial mass with obstructive physiology diagnosed by upper endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration. Virtual Poster: ACC 2020 Scientific Sessions
Tsai S, Hsiao S, Lai E, Mailhot J. Apical variant hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presents as mid-cavitary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with obstruction 10 years later. Virtual Poster: ACC 2020 Scientific Sessions
Vu AA, Egrie GD, Hongo RH. Epicardial defibrillation using a dual-coil Durata ICD lead: a unique approach to overcoming high defibrillation threshold. Virtual Poster: ACC 2020 Scientific Sessions
Sbircea N, Tong M, Scrivastava A, Sheikj F, Herr J, Hsiao S, D’Souza B, Ravichandran A. Incidence of cardiac implantable electronic device complications in patients with left ventricular assist devices. Virtual Poster: Heart Rhythm Society 2020 Scientific Sessions
Choy HK, Agrawal H, Melo D, Mallawaarachchi MS, Ordovas K, Kallianos K, Scott T, Lin S, Sarwary S, Hope M, Shunk K, Zimmet J, Mahadevan V. Feasibility of Ferumoxytol enhanced MR angiography guided transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with chronic kidney disease. Virtual Presentation: SCAI 2020 Scientific Sessions
Poster Presentations
A. Sharma, S. Miller, K. Yang, M. Saffarian, A. Wolfson, A. Vaidya, E. DePasquale. Waitlist Outcomes in Status 1B/2 vs. Status 4-6 Heart Transplant Candidates Before and After the UNOS Allocation Policy Change. Poster and abstract. Poster presented by A. Sharma. ISHLT 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, Toronto, Canada, 2021 April 27.
S. Miller, A. Sharma, M. Saffarian, P. Singhal, K. Yang, D. Miklin, A. Vaidya, A. Wolfson, E. DePasquale. Comparison of Six-Month Post- Heart Transplant Survival Between Status 1B/2 and Status 4-6 Recipients Before and After the UNOS Allocation System Change. Poster and abstract. Poster presented by S Miller. ISHLT 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, Toronto, Canada, 2021 April.
K. Yang, A. Sharma, M. Saffarian, A. Vaidya, A. Wolfson, E. DePasquale. Analysis Of Survival Outcomes Based On Hemodialysis Requirement After Heart Transplantation. ISHLT 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, Toronto, Canada, 2021 April 27.
A. Sharma, N. Bhambi, D.M. Shavelle. The STEMI Mimicker: A Fatal Case Of COVID-19. ACP Southern California Regions I, II & III Annual Meeting. 2020 October 10.
E. Chau, P. Genyk, R. Monahan, H. Basrawala, S. Balasubramanian, C. Lee, A. Sharma, J. Zhang, S. Lin, J. Banerjee, A. Vaidya. LA-DHS Heart Failure Working Group Committee. (2020, April 02). DHS Expected Practices: Outpatient Management of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction in Adults (HFrEF)
Rao, S. (Presenter), Mednick, T., Moser, H., Maliakal, V., et al.. (2021, May 15). Takotsubo Stress Cardiomyopathy Associated with Torsades de Pointes (TdP) Arrest in a Patient with Gallstone Pancreatitis [Poster presented]. American College of Cardiology 70th Annual Scientific Session and Exposition/Virtual, DC, USA.
Aulakh, V., Rao, S., Kamath, A.R., Spies, C., Daniels, D., Sheridan, B.C., Ray, R., Wong, J.M. “Severe Mitral Regurgitation after LVAD Treated with TMVI with Edwards Sapien M3.” Poster Presentation at ACC Annual Meeting, April 2023
Singhal, P., Rao, S., Lai, E., Daniels D., Wong, J.M. “Acute Encephalopathy: An Atypical Presentation of Flail Mitral Valve.” Poster Presentation at ACC Annual Meeting, April 2023.
Go, D., Rao, S., Egrie, G., Ruiz, P., Herr, J. “Catastrophic Anti-phospholipid Antibody Syndrome Leading to Cardiogenic Shock Successfully Treated with ECMO.” Poster presentation at ACC Annual Meeting, virtual, April 3, 2022.
Auyoung, M., Wong, J.M., Ly, V., Rao, S., Hsiao S., Fang, Q., Bibby, D., Rosenblatt A., Schiller, N.B. “Pulmonary Vein Flow by Doppler Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Outcomes.” The Research Cardiac Physiology Laboratory of the Health eHeart Study, Cardiology Division UCSF & CPMC. Poster presentation at ASE Annual Scientific Sessions, virtual, August 8-10, 2020.
Rao, S., Vu, A., Egrie, G., Hongo, R. “LBBB-Related Functional Mitral Regurgitation in Preserved Ejection Fraction Successfully Treated with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.” Poster presentation at ACC Annual Meeting, virtual, March 29, 2020.
Rao, S., Wong, T., Vu, A., Swenson, S. “A Stroke of Luck: Superior Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect Discovered via Cryptogenic Stroke.” Poster presentation at the SGIM National Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 10, 2019.
Hitchner, E., Rao, S., Soman, S., Zhou, W. “Diabetes Impacts Brain Structure in Patients Undergoing Carotid Artery Interventions.” Prospective cohort study, Stanford University, Department of Vascular Surgery and Harvard School of Medicine Department of Radiology. Podium/oral presentation at the Academic Surgical Congress, Jacksonville, FL, February 3, 2016.
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California Pacific Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
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