GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Samer S. Najjar, MD

Regional Chief of Cardiology

MedStar Medical Group & MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute

3333 N. Calvert St., Suite LL07

Baltimore, MD 21218

Telephone: 410-554-2183

Fax: 410-554-6599

Email: Samer.S.Najjar@MedStar.net

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION

A. Education:

Undergraduate:                          American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

                                                        Dates of Attendance: 09/15/1985-06/30/1986

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA                                                                     

Dates of Attendance: 09/15/1986-06/08/1989

                                                        Degree: AB, magna cum laude

Major: Biology

Medical Education:              Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

                                                        Dates of Attendance: 09/21/1989-05/24/1993

Degree: MD

Internship:                            Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Dates of Attendance: 07/01/1993-06/30/1994

Department Chair: Jack Stobo, MD

Residency:                            Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Dates of Attendance: 07/01/1994-06/30/1996

Department Chair: Jack Stobo, MD

Fellowship:                            Johns Hopkins Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Baltimore, MD

Dates of Attendance: 07/01/1996-06/30/2000

                                                        Chief of Service: Kenneth Baughman, MD

B. Professional Experience:

Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

Dates of Service: 2017-present

Regional Chief of Cardiology, Baltimore region, MedStar Medical Group & MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, Baltimore, MD

Dates of Service: 2021-present

Co-Chair, MedStar Cardiology Practice Council, Columbia, MD

                            Dates of Service: 2017-present

Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC

Dates of Service: 2009-2021

Medical Director, Heart Transplantation, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Dates of Service: 2010-2018

Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Dates of Service: 2010-2018

Founding Program Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Dates of Service: 2013-2016

Head, Human Cardiovascular Studies Unit, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD

                            Dates of Service: 2002-2009

Staff Clinician, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD

                            Dates of Service: 2000-2009

Director, Heart Failure, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

                            Dates of Service: 2000-2009

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

                            Dates of Service: 2000-2009

C. Licensure:

State:                                           District of Columbia

License No:                            MD038007

Initial Date:                            05/12/2009

Expiration Date:              12/31/2024

State:                                          Maryland

License No:                            D0050566

Initial Date:                            05/14/1996

Expiration Date:              09/30/2023

D. Certification:

Board Certification:                            Internal Medicine

Date of Certification:                            08/29/1996

Date of Re-certification:               09/04/2007

Sub-specialty Board:                            Cardiovascular Disease

Date of Certification:                            11/08/2000

Date of Re-certification:               10/26/2010

Sub-specialty Board:                             Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology

Date of Certification:                            10/23/2012

Date of Re-certification              11/01/2022

E. Languages Spoken:

English (fluent)

Arabic (fluent)

French (fluent)

2. RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

A. Publications:

i. Original Papers in Refereed Journals

1)      Boydstun I, Najjar S, Kashgarian M, Carpenter T and Siegel N.  Postischemic Thyroxin Stimulates Renal Mitochondrial Adenine Nucleotide Translocator Activity.  Am J Physiol. 1995;268(4 Pt 2):F651-656.

2)      Eldadah ZA, Najjar SS and Ziegelstein RC.  A Patient with Syncope, only Vagally Related to the Heart.  Chest 2000;117(6):1801-1803.

3)      Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Muller DC, Andres R, Hougaku H, Metter EJ, Lakatta EG.  Arterial Alterations of the Metabolic Syndrome Mimic Accelerated Arterial Aging.  J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;43(8):1388-1395.

4)      Blake DR, Meigs JB, Muller DC, Najjar SS, Andres R, Nathan DM. Impaired Glucose Tolerance, but not Impaired Fasting Glucose, is Associated with Increased Levels of Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors: Results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging. Diabetes. 2004;53(8):2095-2100.

5)      Najjar SS, Schulman SP, Gerstenblith G, Fleg JL, Kass DA, O’Connor F, Becker LC, Lakatta EG. Age and Gender Affect Ventricular-Vascular Coupling During Aerobic Exercise. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44(3):611-617.

6)      Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Morrell CH, Lakatt EG.  The Metabolic Syndrome in Older Individuals: Prevalence and Prediction of Cardiovascular Events. The Cardiovascular Health Study.  Diabetes Care 2005;28(4):882-887.

7)      Hougaku H, Fleg JL, Lakatta EG, Scuteri A, Earley CJ, Najjar SS, Deb S. Metter EJ.  Effect of Light-to-Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Age-Associated Arterial Stiffening. Am J Cardiol. 2005;95(8):1006-1010.

8)      Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Muller D, Andres R, Morrell CH, Zonderman AB, Lakatta EG. ApoE4 Allele and the Natural History of Cardiovascular Risk Factors.  Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2005;289(2):E322-327.

9)      Sutton-Tyrrell K, Najjar SS, Kupelian V, Simonsick EM, Havlik R, Lakatta EG, Spurgeon H, Kritchevsky S, Pahor M, Bauer D, Newman A, for the Health ABC Study.  Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity Predicts Mortality in a General Population of Well-Functioning Older Adults.  Circulation 2005;111(25):3384-3390.

10)  Lim JG, Shapiro EP, Vaidya D, Najjar SS, Turner KL, Bacher AC, Ouyang P, Stewart KJ. Gender Differences in Left Ventricular Function in Older Persons with Mild Hypertension.  Am Heart J 2005;150(5):934-940.

11)  Najjar SS, Bottomley PA, Schulman SP, Waldron MM, Gerstenblith G, Weiss RG. Does Right-Shifting Hemoglobin-Oxygen Dissociation Attenuate Exercise-induced Ischemia in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease?  J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2005;7(4):657-666.

12)  Najjar SS, Scuteri A, Lakatta EG.  Arterial Aging: Is it an Immutable Cardiovascular Risk Factor?  Hypertension 2005;46(3):454-462.

13)  Hougaku H, Fleg JL, Najjar SS, Lakatta EG, Harman SM, Blackman MR, Metter EJ. Relationship between Androgenic Hormones and Arterial Stiffness based on Longitudinal Hormone Measurements. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2006;290(2):E234-242.

14)  McDonnell NB, Gorman BL, Mandel KW, Schurman SH, Assanah-Carroll A, Mayer SA, Najjar SS, Francomano CA. Echocardiographic Findings in Classical and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes. Am J Med Genet A. 2006;140(2):129-136.

15)  Anderson DA, Metter GJ, Najjar SS. Suppressed Anger is Associated with Increased Carotid Arterial Stiffness in Older Adults. Am J Hypertens. 2006 19(11):1129-34.

16)  Spaeder JA, Najjar SS, Hefter G, Kern L, Palmer JG, Gottlieb SH, Kasper EK. Rapid Titration of Carvedilol in Patients with CHF: A Randomized Trial of Automated Telemedicine Versus Frequent Outpatient Clinic Visits.  Am Heart J 2006;151(4):844.e1-10.

17)  Maggio M, Ceda GP, Lauretani F, Pahor M, Bandinelli S, Najjar SS, Ling SM, Basaria S, Ruggiero C, Valenti G, Ferrucci L.  Relation of ACE Inhibitor Treatment to Insulin Like Growth Factor-1 Serum Levels in Subjects > 65 Years of Age (The InCHIANTI Study).  Am J Cardiol. 2006;97(10):1525-1529.

18)  Pilia G, Chen W, Scuteri A, Orru M, Albai G, Dei M, Lai S, Usala G, Lai M, Loi P, Mameli C, Vacca L, Deiana M, Olla N, Masala M, Cao A, Najjar SS, Terraciano A, Nedorezov T, Sharov AA, Zonderman AB, Abecasis G, Costa P, Lakatta E, Schlessinger D. Heritability of Cardiovascular and Personality Traits in 6,148 Sardinians. PLoS Genet. 2006;2(8):e132.

19)  Maggio M, Lauretani F, Ceda G, Bandinelli S, Basaria S, Ble A, Egan J, Paolisso G, Najjar S, Metter EJ, Valenti G, Guralnick J, Ferrucci L Association of Hormones with Metabolic Syndrome in Older Italian Men: Data from the InCHIANTI Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006;54(12):1832-1838.

20)  Melenovsky V. Borlaug BA, Rosen B, Hay I, Ferrucci L, Morrell CH, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS, Kass DA. Cardiovascular Features of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction versus Non-Failing Hypertensive Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in the Urban Baltimore Community: Role of Atrial Remodeling/Dysfunction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;49(2):198-207.

21)  Saleh AS, Najjar SS, Muller DC, Shetty V, Ferrucci L, Gelber AC, Ling SM.  Arterial Stiffness and Hand Osteoarthritis: a Novel Relationship?  Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2007;15(3):357-361.

22)  Stote KS, Baer DJ, Spears K, Paul DR, Harris GK, Rumpler WV, Strycula P, Najjar SS, Ferrucci L, Ingram DK, Longo DL, Mattson MP.  A Controlled Trial of Reduced Meal Frequency Without Caloric Restriction in Healthy, Normal Weight Middle-Aged Men and Women.  Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85(4):981-988.

23)  Ruggiero C, Cherubini A, Miller ER III, Maggio M, Najjar SS, Lauretani F, Bandinelli S, Senin U, Ferrucci L.  Usefulness of Uric Acid to Predict Changes in C-reactive Protein and Interleukin-6 in 3-Year Period in Italians aged 21 to 98 years. Am J Cardiol. 2007;100(1):115-121.

24)  Ruggiero C, Metter EJ, Cherubini A, Ble A, Sen R, Najjar SS, Windham BG, Maggio M, Senin U, Ferrucci L.  White Blood Cell Count and Mortality from 1958 to 2002: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;49(18):1841-1850.

25)  Scuteri A, Sanna S, Chen W, Uda M, Albai G, Strait J, Najjar S, Nagaraja R, Orru M, Usala G, Dei M, Lai S, Maschio A, Busonero F, Mulas A, Ehret GB, Fink AA, Weder AB, Cooper RS, Chakravati A, Schlessinger D, Cao A, Lakatta E, Abecasis GR.  Genome Wide Association Scan Shows Genetic Variants in the FTO Gene are Associated with Obesity Related Traits.  PLoS Genet. 2007;3(7):e115.

26)  Carlson O, Martin B, Stote KS, Golden E, Maudsley S, Najjar SS, Ferrucci L, Ingram DK, Longo DL, Rumpler WV, Baer DJ, Egan J, Mattson MP.  Impact of Reduced Meal Frequency Without Caloric Restriction on Glucose Regulation in Healthy, Normal-Weight Middle-Aged Men and Women.  Metabolism 2007;56(12):1729-1734.

27)  Li S, Sanna S, Maschio A, Busonero F, Usala G, Mulas A, Lai S, Dei M, Orru M, Albai G, Bandinelli S, Schlessinger D, Lakatta E, Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Guralnick J, Naitza S, Crisponi L, Cao A, Abecasis G, Ferrucci L, Uda M, Chen WM, Nagaraja R.  The GLUT9 Gene is Associated with Serum Uric Acid Levels in Sardinian and Chianti Cohorts.  PLoS Genet. 2007;3(11):e194.

28)  Ruggiero C, Metter EJ, Melenovsky V, Cherubini A, Ble A, Najjar SS, Longo DL, Ferrucci L.  Resting Metabolic Rate Correlates with Mortality in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.  J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2008;63(7):698-706.

29)  Waldstein SR, Rice SC, Thayer JF, Najjar SS, Scuteri A, Zonderman AB.  Pulse Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity are Related to Cognitive Decline in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.  Hypertension 2008;51(1):99-104.

30)  Stein JH, Korcarz CE, Hurst RT, Lonn E, Kendall CB, Mohler ER, Najjar SS, Rembold CM, Post WS.  Use of Carotid Ultrasound to Identify Subclinical Vascular Disease and Evaluate Cardiovascular Risk: A Consensus and Best Practices Statement From the American Society of Echocardiography.  J Am Soc Echocardiog. 2008;21(2):93-111.

31)  Willer CJ, Sanna S, Jackson AU, Scuteri A, Bonnycastle LL, Clarke R, Galan P, Heath SC, Timpson NJ, Najjar SS, Stringham HM, Strait J, Duren WL, Maschio A, Busonero F, Mulas A, Albai G, Swift AJ, Morken MA, Narisu N, Bennett D, Parish S, Shen H, Galan P, Meneton P, Hercberg S, Zelenika D, Chen WM, Li Y, Sundvall J, Watanabe RM, Nagaraja R, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey-Smith G, Shuldiner AR, Collins R, Bergman RN, Uda M, Tuomilehto J, Cao A, Collins FS, Lakatta E, Lathrop GM, Boehnke M, Schlessinger D, Mohlke KL, Abecasis GR.  Genome-Wide Association Scans Identify Novel Loci That Influence Lipid Levels and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease.  Nat Genet. 2008;40(2):161-169.

32)  Farasat SM, Morrell CH, Scuteri A, Ting C-T, Yin FCP, Spurgeon HA, Chen C-H, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS.  Pulse Pressure is Inversely Related to Aortic Root Diameter: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Systolic Hypertension.  Hypertension 2008;51(2):196-202.

33)  Najjar SS, Scuteri A, Shetty V, Wright JG, Muller DC, Fleg JL, Spurgeon HA, Ferrucci L, Lakatta EG.  Pulse Wave Velocity is an Independent Predictor of the Longitudinal Rise in Systolic Blood Pressure and of Incident Hypertension in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.  J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008;51(14):1377-1383.

34)  Farasat SM, Morrell CH, Scuteri A, Ting CT, Yin FCP, Spurgeon HA, Chen CH, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS.  Do Hypertensive Individuals Have Enlarged Aortic Root Diameters? Insights from Studying the Various Subtypes of Hypertension.  Am J Hypertens. 2008;21(5):558-563.

35)  Chen WM, Erdos MR, Jackson AU, Saxena R, Sanna S, Silver KD, Timpson NJ, Hansen T, Orrù M, Grazia Piras M, Bonnycastle LL, Willer CJ, Lyssenko V, Shen H, Kuusisto J, Ebrahim S, Sestu N, Duren WL, Spada MC, Stringham HM, Scott LJ, Olla N, Swift AJ, Najjar S, Mitchell BD, Lawlor DA, Smith GD, Ben-Shlomo Y, Andersen G, Borch-Johnsen K, Jørgensen T, Saramies J, Valle TT, Buchanan TA, Shuldiner AR, Lakatta E, Bergman RN, Uda M, Tuomilehto J, Pedersen O, Cao A, Groop L, Mohlke KL, Laakso M, Schlessinger D, Collins FS, Altshuler D, Abecasis GR, Boehnke M, Scuteri A, Watanabe RM.  Variations in the G6PC2/ABCB11 genomic region are associated with fasting glucose levels. J Clin Invest. 2008;118(7):2620-2628.

36)  Chantler PD, Melenovsky V, Schulman SP, Gerstenblith G, Becker LC, Ferrucci L, Fleg JL, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS.  The Sex-Specific Impact of Systolic Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure on Arterial-Ventricular Coupling at Rest and During Exercise. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008;295(1):H145-153.

37)  Chantler PD, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS.  Arterial-Ventricular Coupling: Mechanistic Insights into Cardiovascular Performance at Rest and During Exercise. J Appl Physiol. 2008;105(4):1342-1351.

38)  Scuteri A, Vuga M, Najjar SS, Mehta V, Everson-Rose SA, Sutton-Tyrell K, Matthews K, Lakatta EG.  Education Eclipses Ethnicity in Predicting the Development of the Metabolic Syndrome in Different Ethnic Groups in Midlife: the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Diabet. Med. 2008;25(12):1390-1399.

39)  Semba RD, Najjar SS, Sun K, Lakatta EG, Ferrucci L.  Serum Carboxymethyl-lysine, an Advanced Glycation End Product, is Associated with Increased Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Adults. Am J Hypertens. 2009;22(1):74-79.

40)  Rice SC, Zonderman AB, Metter EJ, Najjar SS, Waldstein SR.  Absence of Relation Between Depressive Symptoms and Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Psychosom Med. 2009;71(1):70-76.

41)  Scuteri A, Morrell CH, Najjar SS, Muller D, Andres R, Ferrucci L, Lakatta EG. Longitudinal Paths to the Metabolic Syndrome. Can the Incidence of the Metabolic Syndrome be Predicted? The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2009;64(5):590-8.

42)  Pfeufer A, Sanna S, ArkingDE, Müller M, Gateva V, Fuchsberger C, Ehret GB, Orrú M, Pattaro C, Köttgen A, Perz S, Usala G, Barbalic M, Li M, Pütz B, Scuteri A, Prineas RJ, Sinner MF, Happle C, Gieger C, Najjar SS, Kao WHL, Mühleisen TW, Dei M, Möhlenkamp M, Crisponi L, Erbel R, Jöckel KH, Naitza S, Steinbeck G, Marroni F, Hicks AA, Lakatta E, Müller-Myhsok B, Pramstaller PP, Wichmann HE, Schlessinger D, Boerwinkle E, Meitinger T, Uda M, Coresh J, Kääb S, Abecasis GR, Chakravarti A.  Common Variants at Ten Loci Modulate the QT Interval Duration in the QTSCD Study. Nat Genet. 2009;41(4):407-414.

43)  Shetty V, Morrell CM, Najjar SS.  Modeling a Cross-Sectional Response Variable with Longitudinal Predictors: An Example of Pulse Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity. J Appl. Stat. 2009;36(6):611-619.

44)  Madero M, Wassel CL, Peralta CA, Najjar SS, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Fried L, Canada R, Newman A, Shlipak MG, Sarnak MJ; for the Health ABC Study.  Cystatin C Associates with Arterial Stiffness in Older Adults. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009;20(5):1086-93.

45)  Povsic TJ, Adams SD, Zavodni KL, Melton LG, Rao SV, Najjar SS, Harrington RA, Peterson ED. Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Activity Allows Reliable EPC Enumeration in Stored Peripheral Blood Samples. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2009;28(3):259-265.

46)  Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Orru M, Albai G, Strait J, Tarasov K, Piras MG, Cao A, Schlessinger D, Uda M, Lakatta EG.  Age-and Gender-Specific Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Subclinical Vascular Lesions in a Founder Population: The SardiNIA Study. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2009;19(8):532-541.

47)  Lakatta EG, Wang M, Najjar SS.  Arterial Aging and Subclinical Disease are Fundamentally Intertwined at Macroscopic and Molecular Levels. Med Clin N Am. 2009;93(3):583-604.

48)  Tarasov KV, Sanna S, Scuteri A, Strait JB, Orru M, Parsa A, Lin P-I, Maschio A, Lai S, Piras MG, Masala M, Tanaka T, Post WS, O'Connell JR, Schlessinger D, Cao A, Nagaraja R, Mitchell BD, Abecasis GR, Shuldiner AR, Uda M, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS.  COL4A1 is Associated with Arterial Stiffness by Genome Wide Association Scan. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009;2(2):151-158.

49)  Strait J, Uda M, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS. Utilizing New Tools to Define the Genetic Underpinnings of Risky Traits Associated with Coronary Artery Disease: The SardiNIA Study. Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2009;19(3):69-75.

50)  Newton-Cheh C, Johnson T, Gateva V, Tobin MD, Bochud M, Coin L, Najjar SS, Zhao JH, Heath SC, Eyheramendy S, Papadakis K, Voight BF, Scott LJ, Zhang F, Farrall M, Tanaka T, Wallace C, Chambers JC, Khaw KT, Nilsson P, van der Harst P, Polidoro S, Grobbee DE, Onland-Moret NC, Bots ML, Wain LV, Elliott KS, Teumer A, Luan J, Lucas G, Kuusisto J, Burton PR, Hadley D, McArdle WL; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Brown M, Dominiczak A, Newhouse SJ, Samani NJ, Webster J, Zeggini E, Beckmann JS, Bergmann S, Lim N, Song K, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Waterworth DM, Yuan X, Groop L, Orho-Melander M, Allione A, Di Gregorio A, Guarrera S, Panico S, Ricceri F, Romanazzi V, Sacerdote C, Vineis P, Barroso I, Sandhu MS, Luben RN, Crawford GJ, Jousilahti P, Perola M, Boehnke M, Bonnycastle LL, Collins FS, Jackson AU, Mohlke KL, Stringham HM, Valle TT, Willer CJ, Bergman RN, Morken MA, Döring A, Gieger C, Illig T, Meitinger T, Org E, Pfeufer A, Wichmann HE, Kathiresan S, Marrugat J, O'Donnell CJ, Schwartz SM, Siscovick DS, Subirana I, Freimer NB, Hartikainen AL, McCarthy MI, O'Reilly PF, Peltonen L, Pouta A, de Jong PE, Snieder H, van Gilst WH, Clarke R, Goel A, Hamsten A, Peden JF, Seedorf U, Syvänen AC, Tognoni G, Lakatta EG, Sanna S, Scheet P, Schlessinger D, Scuteri A, Dörr M, Ernst F, Felix SB, Homuth G, Lorbeer R, Reffelmann T, Rettig R, Völker U, Galan P, Gut IG, Hercberg S, Lathrop GM, Zelenika D, Deloukas P, Soranzo N, Williams FM, Zhai G, Salomaa V, Laakso M, Elosua R, Forouhi NG, Völzke H, Uiterwaal CS, van der Schouw YT, Numans ME, Matullo G, Navis G, Berglund G, Bingham SA, Kooner JS, Connell JM, Bandinelli S, Ferrucci L, Watkins H, Spector TD, Tuomilehto J, Altshuler D, Strachan DP, Laan M, Meneton P, Wareham NJ, Uda M, Jarvelin MR, Mooser V, Melander O, Loos RJ, Elliott P, Abecasis GR, Caulfield M, Munroe PB. Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Eight Loci Associated with Blood Pressure. Nat Genet. 2009;41(6):666-676.

51)  Wendel CR, Zonderman AB, Metter EJ, Najjar SS, Waldstein SR. Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness Predicts Cognitive Decline among Adults without Clinical Vascular Disease. Stroke 2009;40(10):3180-3185.

52)  Gottlieb JD, Schwartz AR, Marshall J, Ouyang P, Kern L, Shetty V, Trois M, Punjabi NM, Brown C, Najjar SS*, Gottlieb SS*. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;54(18):1706-12.

(* authors contributed equally to manuscript)

53)  Selvin E, Najjar SS, Cornish TC, Halushka MK.  A Comprehensive Histopathological Evaluation of Vascular Medial Fibrosis: Insights into the Pathophysiology of Arterial Stiffening.  Atherosclerosis 2010;208(1):69-74.

54)  Farasat SM, Bolger DT, Shetty V, Menachery EP, Gerstenblith G, Kasper EK, Najjar SS. Effect of ß-Blocker Therapy on Re-hospitalization Rates in Women versus Men with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction. Am J Cardiol 2010;105(2):229-234.

55)  Tolea MI, Costa PT, Terracciano A, Griswold M, Simonsick EM, Najjar SS, Scuteri A, Deiana B, Orru M, Masal M, Uda M, Schlessinger D, Ferrucci L. Sex-Specific Correlates of Walking Speed in a Wide-Age Ranged Population. J Gerontology 2010;65B(2):174-184.

56)  Hoi Y, Wasserman BA, Xie Y, Najjar SS, Ferrucci L, Lakatta EG, Gerstenblith G, Steinman DA.  Characterization of Volumetric Flow Rate Waveforms at the Carotid Bifurcations of Older Adults. Physiol. Meas. 2010;31:291-302.

57)  Sojkova J, Najjar SS, Beason LL, Metter EJ, Davatzikos C, Kraut MA, Zonderman AB, Resnick SM. Intima-Media Thickness and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Older Adults. Stroke 2010;41(2):273-279.

58)  Pfeufer A, van Noord C, Marciante KD, Arking DE, Larson MG, Smith AV, Tarasov KV, Müller M, Sotoodehnia N, Sinner MF, Verwoert GC, Li M, Kao WH, Köttgen A, Coresh J, Bis JC, Psaty BM, Rice K, Rotter JI, Rivadeneira F, Hofman A, Kors JA, Stricker BH, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn CM, Beckmann BM, Sauter W, Gieger C, Lubitz SA, Newton-Cheh C, Wang TJ, Magnani JW, Schnabel RB, Chung MK, Barnard J, Smith JD, Van Wagoner DR, Vasan RS, Aspelund T, Eiriksdottir G, Harris TB, Launer LJ, Najjar SS, Lakatta E, Schlessinger D, Uda M, Abecasis GR, Müller-Myhsok B, Ehret GB, Boerwinkle E, Chakravarti A, Soliman EZ, Lunetta KL, Perz S, Wichmann HE, Meitinger T, Levy D, Gudnason V, Ellinor PT, Sanna S, Kääb S, Witteman JC, Alonso A, Benjamin EJ, Heckbert SR. Genome-wide association study of PR interval. Nat Genet. 2010;42(2):153-9.

59)  Farasat SM, Valdes C, Shetty V, Muller DC, Egan JM, Metter EJ, Ferrucci L, Najjar SS.  Is Longitudinal Pulse Pressure A Better Predictor of 24-Hour Urinary Albumin Excretion Than Other Indices of Blood Pressure? Hypertension. 2010;55(2):415-421.

60)  Maggio M, Lauretani F, Ceda G, Bandinelli S, Basaria S, Paolisso G, Giumelli C, Luci M, Najjar SS, Metter EJ, Valenti G, Guralnik JM, Ferrucci L.  Estradiol and Metabolic Syndrome in Older Italian Men: The InCHIANTI Study. J Androl. 2010;31(2):155-162.

61)  Wang KL, Cheng HM, Sung SH, Chuang SY, Li CH, Spurgeon HA, Ting CT, Najjar SS, Lakatta EG, Yin FC, Chou P, Chen CH. Wave Reflection and Arterial Stiffness in the Prediction of 15-Year All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortalities. A Community-Based Study.  Hypertension. 2010;55(3):799-805.

62)  Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Orru M, Ferrucci L, Cao A, Schlessinger D, Uda M, Lakatta EG. The Central Burden of the Metabolic Syndrome is Similar in Men and Women. Eur Heart J. 2010;31(5):602-13.

63)  Windham BG, Griswold ME, Farasat SM, Ling SM, Carlson O, Egan JM, Ferrucci L, Najjar SS.  Influence of Leptin, Adiponectin, and Resistin on the Association Between Abdominal Adiposity and Arterial Stiffness. Am J Hypertens. 2010;23(5):501-507.

64)  Townsend RR, Roman MJ, Najjar SS, Cockcroft JR, Feig PU, Stockbridge NL. Central blood pressure measurements-an opportunity for efficacy and safety in drug development? J Am Soc Hypertens. 2010;4(5):973-980.

65)  Eijgelsheim M, Newton-Cheh C, Sotoodehnia N, de Bakker PI, Müller M, Morrison AC, Smith AV, Isaacs A, Sanna S, Dörr M, Navarro P, Fuchsberger C, Nolte IM, de Geus EJ, Estrada K, Hwang SJ, Bis JC, Rückert IM, Alonso A, Launer LJ, Hottenga JJ, Rivadeneira F, Noseworthy PA, Rice KM, Perz S, Arking DE, Spector TD, Kors JA, Aulchenko YS, Tarasov KV, Homuth G, Wild SH, Marroni F, Gieger C, Licht CM, Prineas RJ, Hofman A, Rotter JI, Hicks AA, Ernst F, Najjar SS, Wright AF, Peters A, Fox ER, Oostra BA, Kroemer HK, Couper D, Völzke H, Campbell H, Meitinger T, Uda M, Witteman JC, Psaty BM, Wichmann HE, Harris TB, Kääb S, Siscovick DS, Jamshidi Y, Uitterlinden AG, Folsom AR, Larson MG, Wilson JF, Penninx BW, Snieder H, Pramstaller PP, van Duijn CM, Lakatta EG, Felix SB, Gudnason V, Pfeufer A, Heckbert SR, Stricker BH, Boerwinkle E, O'Donnell CJ. Genome-wide association analysis identifies multiple loci related to resting heart rate. Hum Mol Genet. 2010 Oct 1;19(19):3885-94.

66)  Melloni C, Rao SV, Povsic TJ, Melton L, Kim RJ, Kilaru R, Patel MR, Talan M, Ferrucci L, Longo DL, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS, Harrington RA. Design and rationale of the Reduction of Infarct Expansion and Ventricular Remodeling with Erythropoietin after Large Myocardial Infarction (REVEAL) trial. Am Heart J. 2010;160(5):795-803.

67)  Watson NL, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Youk AO, Boudreau RM, Mackey RH, Simonsick EM, Rosano C, Hardy SE, Windham BG, Harris TB, Najjar SS, Lakatta EG, Atkinson HH, Johnson KC, Bauer DC, Nemwan AB. Arterial Stiffness and Gait Speed in Older Adults With and Without Peripheral Arterial Disease. Am J Hypertens. 2011;24(1):90-95.

68)  Chantler PD, Nussbacher A, Gerstenblith G, Schulman SP, Becker LC, Ferrucci L, Fleg JL, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS. Abnormalities in Arterial-Ventricular Coupling in Older Healthy Persons are Attenuated by Sodium Nitroprusside. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2011;300(5):H1914-1922.

69)  Giallauria F, Ling SM, Schreiber C, Maggio M, Shetty V, Muller D, Vigorito C, Ferrucci L, Najjar SS. Arterial Stiffness and Bone Demineralization: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Am J Hypertens. 2011; 24(9):970-975.

70)  Forman DE, Rich MW, Alexander KP, Zieman S, Maurer MS, Najjar SS, Cleveland JC Jr, Krumholz HM, Wenger NK. Cardiac care for older adults time for a new paradigm. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;57(18):1801-10.

71)  Madero M, Wassel CL, Peralta CA, Najjar SS, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Fried LF, de Boer IH, Shlipak MG, Newman AB, Hausman D, Sarnak MJ, Kritchevsky SB, Ix JH. Markers of Mineral Metabolism Are Not Associated With Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Community-Living Elderly Persons: The Health Aging and Body Composition Study. Am J Hypertens. 2011;24(7):755-761.

72)  Butler J, Kalogeropoulos AP, Georgiopoulou VV, Bibbins-Domingo K, Najjar SS, Sutton-Tyrrell KC, Harris TB, Kritchevsky SB, Lloyd-Jones DM, Newman AB, Psaty BM. Systolic blood pressure and incident heart failure in the elderly. The Cardiovascular Health Study and the Health, Ageing and Body Composition Study. Heart. 2011; 97(16):1304-1311.

73)  International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies, Ehret GB, Munroe PB, Rice KM, Bochud M, Johnson AD, Chasman DI, Smith AV, Tobin MD, Verwoert GC, Hwang SJ, Pihur V, Vollenweider P, O'Reilly PF, Amin N, Bragg-Gresham JL, Teumer A, Glazer NL, Launer L, Zhao JH, Aulchenko Y, Heath S, Sõber S, Parsa A, Luan J, Arora P, Dehghan A, Zhang F, Lucas G, Hicks AA, Jackson AU, Peden JF, Tanaka T, Wild SH, Rudan I, Igl W, Milaneschi Y, Parker AN, Fava C, Chambers JC, Fox ER, Kumari M, Go MJ, van der Harst P, Kao WH, Sjögren M, Vinay DG, Alexander M, Tabara Y, Shaw-Hawkins S, Whincup PH, Liu Y, Shi G, Kuusisto J, Tayo B, Seielstad M, Sim X, Nguyen KD, Lehtimäki T, Matullo G, Wu Y, Gaunt TR, Onland-Moret NC, Cooper MN, Platou CG, Org E, Hardy R, Dahgam S, Palmen J, Vitart V, Braund PS, Kuznetsova T, Uiterwaal CS, Adeyemo A, Palmas W, Campbell H, Ludwig B, Tomaszewski M, Tzoulaki I, Palmer ND; CARDIoGRAM consortium; CKDGen Consortium; KidneyGen Consortium; EchoGen consortium; CHARGE-HF consortium, Aspelund T, Garcia M, Chang YP, O'Connell JR, Steinle NI, Grobbee DE, Arking DE, Kardia SL, Morrison AC, Hernandez D, Najjar S, McArdle WL, Hadley D, Brown MJ, Connell JM, Hingorani AD, Day IN, Lawlor DA, Beilby JP, Lawrence RW, Clarke R, Hopewell JC, Ongen H, Dreisbach AW, Li Y, Young JH, Bis JC, Kähönen M, Viikari J, Adair LS, Lee NR, Chen MH, Olden M, Pattaro C, Bolton JA, Köttgen A, Bergmann S, Mooser V, Chaturvedi N, Frayling TM, Islam M, Jafar TH, Erdmann J, Kulkarni SR, Bornstein SR, Grässler J, Groop L, Voight BF, Kettunen J, Howard P, Taylor A, Guarrera S, Ricceri F, Emilsson V, Plump A, Barroso I, Khaw KT, Weder AB, Hunt SC, Sun YV, Bergman RN, Collins FS, Bonnycastle LL, Scott LJ, Stringham HM, Peltonen L, Perola M, Vartiainen E, Brand SM, Staessen JA, Wang TJ, Burton PR, Artigas MS, Dong Y, Snieder H, Wang X, Zhu H, Lohman KK, Rudock ME, Heckbert SR, Smith NL, Wiggins KL, Doumatey A, Shriner D, Veldre G, Viigimaa M, Kinra S, Prabhakaran D, Tripathy V, Langefeld CD, Rosengren A, Thelle DS, Corsi AM, Singleton A, Forrester T, Hilton G, McKenzie CA, Salako T, Iwai N, Kita Y, Ogihara T, Ohkubo T, Okamura T, Ueshima H, Umemura S, Eyheramendy S, Meitinger T, Wichmann HE, Cho YS, Kim HL, Lee JY, Scott J, Sehmi JS, Zhang W, Hedblad B, Nilsson P, Smith GD, Wong A, Narisu N, Stančáková A, Raffel LJ, Yao J, Kathiresan S, O'Donnell CJ, Schwartz SM, Ikram MA, Longstreth WT Jr, Mosley TH, Seshadri S, Shrine NR, Wain LV, Morken MA, Swift AJ, Laitinen J, Prokopenko I, Zitting P, Cooper JA, Humphries SE, Danesh J, Rasheed A, Goel A, Hamsten A, Watkins H, Bakker SJ, van Gilst WH, Janipalli CS, Mani KR, Yajnik CS, Hofman A, Mattace-Raso FU, Oostra BA, Demirkan A, Isaacs A, Rivadeneira F, Lakatta EG, Orru M, Scuteri A, Ala-Korpela M, Kangas AJ, Lyytikäinen LP, Soininen P, Tukiainen T, Würtz P, Ong RT, Dörr M, Kroemer HK, Völker U, Völzke H, Galan P, Hercberg S, Lathrop M, Zelenika D, Deloukas P, Mangino M, Spector TD, Zhai G, Meschia JF, Nalls MA, Sharma P, Terzic J, Kumar MV, Denniff M, Zukowska-Szczechowska E, Wagenknecht LE, Fowkes FG, Charchar FJ, Schwarz PE, Hayward C, Guo X, Rotimi C, Bots ML, Brand E, Samani NJ, Polasek O, Talmud PJ, Nyberg F, Kuh D, Laan M, Hveem K, Palmer LJ, van der Schouw YT, Casas JP, Mohlke KL, Vineis P, Raitakari O, Ganesh SK, Wong TY, Tai ES, Cooper RS, Laakso M, Rao DC, Harris TB, Morris RW, Dominiczak AF, Kivimaki M, Marmot MG, Miki T, Saleheen D, Chandak GR, Coresh J, Navis G, Salomaa V, Han BG, Zhu X, Kooner JS, Melander O, Ridker PM, Bandinelli S, Gyllensten UB, Wright AF, Wilson JF, Ferrucci L, Farrall M, Tuomilehto J, Pramstaller PP, Elosua R, Soranzo N, Sijbrands EJ, Altshuler D, Loos RJ, Shuldiner AR, Gieger C, Meneton P, Uitterlinden AG, Wareham NJ, Gudnason V, Rotter JI, Rettig R, Uda M, Strachan DP, Witteman JC, Hartikainen AL, Beckmann JS, Boerwinkle E, Vasan RS, Boehnke M, Larson MG, Järvelin MR, Psaty BM, Abecasis GR, Chakravarti A, Elliott P, van Duijn CM, Newton-Cheh C, Levy D, Caulfield MJ, Johnson T. Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature. 2011;478(7367):103-9.

74)  Najjar SS, Rao SV, Melloni C, Raman SV, Povsic TJ, Melton L, Barsness GW, Prather K, Heitner JF, Kilaru R, Gruberg L, Hasselblad V, Greenbaum AB, Patel M, Kim RJ, Talan M, Ferrucci L, Longo DL, Lakatta EG, Harrington RA; REVEAL Investigators. Intravenous erythropoietin in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: REVEAL: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2011;305(18):1863-72.

75)  Watson NL, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Rosano C, Boudreau RM, Hardy SE, Simonsick EM, Najjar SS, Launer LJ, Yaffe K, Atkinson HH, Satterfield S, Newman AB. Arterial stiffness and cognitive decline in well-functioning older adults. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2011;66(12):1336-42.

76)  Jun JC, Drager LF, Najjar SS, Gottlieb SS, Brown CD, Smith PL, Schwartz AR, Polotsky VY. Effects of sleep apnea on nocturnal free fatty acids in subjects with heart failure. Sleep. 2011;34(9):1207-13.

77)  Wain LV, Verwoert GC, O'Reilly PF, Shi G, Johnson T, Johnson AD, Bochud M, Rice KM, Henneman P, Smith AV, Ehret GB, Amin N, Larson MG, Mooser V, Hadley D, Dörr M, Bis JC, Aspelund T, Esko T, Janssens AC, Zhao JH, Heath S, Laan M, Fu J, Pistis G, Luan J, Arora P, Lucas G, Pirastu N, Pichler I, Jackson AU, Webster RJ, Zhang F, Peden JF, Schmidt H, Tanaka T, Campbell H, Igl W, Milaneschi Y, Hottenga JJ, Vitart V, Chasman DI, Trompet S, Bragg-Gresham JL, Alizadeh BZ, Chambers JC, Guo X, Lehtimäki T, Kühnel B, Lopez LM, Polašek O, Boban M, Nelson CP, Morrison AC, Pihur V, Ganesh SK, Hofman A, Kundu S, Mattace-Raso FU, Rivadeneira F, Sijbrands EJ, Uitterlinden AG, Hwang SJ, Vasan RS, Wang TJ, Bergmann S, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Laitinen J, Pouta A, Zitting P, McArdle WL, Kroemer HK, Völker U, Völzke H, Glazer NL, Taylor KD, Harris TB, Alavere H, Haller T, Keis A, Tammesoo ML, Aulchenko Y, Barroso I, Khaw KT, Galan P, Hercberg S, Lathrop M, Eyheramendy S, Org E, Sõber S, Lu X, Nolte IM, Penninx BW, Corre T, Masciullo C, Sala C, Groop L, Voight BF, Melander O, O'Donnell CJ, Salomaa V, d'Adamo AP, Fabretto A, Faletra F, Ulivi S, Del Greco M F, Facheris M, Collins FS, Bergman RN, Beilby JP, Hung J, Musk AW, Mangino M, Shin SY, Soranzo N, Watkins H, Goel A, Hamsten A, Gider P, Loitfelder M, Zeginigg M, Hernandez D, Najjar SS, Navarro P, Wild SH, Corsi AM, Singleton A, de Geus EJ, Willemsen G, Parker AN, Rose LM, Buckley B, Stott D, Orru M, Uda M, van der Klauw MM, Zhang W, Li X, Scott J, Chen YD, Burke GL, Kähönen M, Viikari J, Döring A, Meitinger T, Davies G, Starr JM, Emilsson V, Plump A, Lindeman JH, Hoen PA, König IR, Felix JF, Clarke R, Hopewell JC, Ongen H, Breteler M, Debette S, Destefano AL, Fornage M, Mitchell GF, Smith NL, Holm H, Stefansson K, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Samani NJ, Preuss M, Rudan I, Hayward C, Deary IJ, Wichmann HE, Raitakari OT, Palmas W, Kooner JS, Stolk RP, Jukema JW, Wright AF, Boomsma DI, Bandinelli S, Gyllensten UB, Wilson JF, Ferrucci L, Schmidt R, Farrall M, Spector TD, Palmer LJ, Tuomilehto J, Pfeufer A, Gasparini P, Siscovick D, Altshuler D, Loos RJ, Toniolo D, Snieder H, Gieger C, Meneton P, Wareham NJ, Oostra BA, Metspalu A, Launer L, Rettig R, Strachan DP, Beckmann JS, Witteman JC, Erdmann J, van Dijk KW, Boerwinkle E, Boehnke M, Ridker PM, Jarvelin MR, Chakravarti A, Abecasis GR, Gudnason V, Newton-Cheh C, Levy D, Munroe PB, Psaty BM, Caulfield MJ, Rao DC, Tobin MD, Elliott P, van Duijn CM; LifeLines Cohort Study; EchoGen consortium; AortaGen Consortium; CHARGE Consortium Heart Failure Working Group; KidneyGen consortium; CKDGen consortium; Cardiogenics consortium; CardioGram. Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Nat Genet. 2011;43(10):1005-11.

78)  Mitchell GF, Verwoert GC, Tarasov KV, Isaacs A, Smith AV, Yasmin, Rietzschel ER, Tanaka T, Liu Y, Parsa A, Najjar SS, O'Shaughnessy KM, Sigurdsson S, De Buyzere ML, Larson MG, Sie MP, Andrews JS, Post WS, Mattace-Raso FU, McEniery CM, Eiriksdottir G, Segers P, Vasan RS, van Rijn MJ, Howard TD, McArdle PF, Dehghan A, Jewell E, Newhouse SJ, Bekaert S, Hamburg NM, Newman AB, Hofmann A, Scuteri A, De Bacquer D, Ikram MA, Psaty B, Fuchsberger C, Olden M, Wain LV, Elliott P, Smith NL, Felix JF, Erdmann J, Vita JA, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Sijbrands EJ, Sanna S, Launer LJ, De Meyer T, Johnson AD, Schut AF, Herrington DM, Rivadeneira F, Uda M, Wilkinson IB, Aspelund T, Gillebert TC, Van Bortel L, Benjamin EJ, Oostra BA, Ding J, Gibson Q, Uitterlinden AG, Abecasis GR, Cockcroft JR, Gudnason V, De Backer GG, Ferrucci L, Harris TB, Shuldiner AR, van Duijn CM, Levy D, Lakatta EG, Witteman JC. Common Genetic Variation in the 3-BCL11B Gene Desert Is Associated with Carotid-Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity and Excess Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The AortaGen Consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012;5(1):81-90.

79)  Canepa M, Strait JB, Abramov D, Milaneschi Y, Al Ghatrif M, Moni M, Ramachandran R, Najjar SS, Brunelli C, Abraham TP, Lakatta EG, Ferrucci L. Contribution of Central Adiposity to Left Ventricular Diastolic Function (from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging). Am J Cardiol. 2012;109(8):1171-1178.

80)  Chantler PD, Melenovsky V, Schulman SP, Gerstenblith G, Becker LC, Ferrucci L, Fleg JL, Lakatta EG, Najjar SS. Use of the Frank-Starling mechanism during exercise is linked to exercise-induced changes in arterial load. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2012;302(1):H349-58.

81)  Aaronson KD, Slaughter MS, Miller LW, McGee EC, Cotts WG, Acker MA, Jessup ML, Gregoric ID, Loyalka P, Frazier OH, Jeevanandam V, Anderson AS, Kormos RL, Teuteberg JJ, Levy WC, Naftel DC, Bittman RM, Pagani FD, Hathaway DR, Boyce SW; HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) Bridge to Transplant ADVANCE Trial Investigators. Use of an intrapericardial, continuous-flow, centrifugal pump in patients awaiting heart transplantation. Circulation. 2012;125(25):3191-200.

82)  Windham BG, Fumagalli S, Ble A, Sollers JJ, Thayer JF, Najjar SS, Griswold ME, Ferrucci L. The Relationship between Heart Rate Variability and Adiposity Differs for Central and Overall Adiposity. J Obes. 2012;2012:149516.

83)  Madero M, Peralta C, Katz R, Canada R, Fried L, Najjar S, Shlipak M, Simonsick E, Lakatta E, Patel K, Rifkin D, Hawkins M, Newman A, Sarnak M; Health ABC Study. Association of arterial rigidity with incident kidney disease and kidney function decline: the Health ABC study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013;8(3):424-33. 

84)  Slaughter MS, Pagani FD, McGee EC, Birks EJ, Cotts WG, Gregoric I, Howard Frazier O, Icenogle T, Najjar SS, Boyce SW, Acker MA, John R, Hathaway DR, Najarian KB, Aaronson KD; HeartWare Bridge to Transplant ADVANCE Trial Investigators. HeartWare ventricular assist system for bridge to transplant: Combined results of the bridge to transplant and continued access protocol trial. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2013;32(7):675-83.

85)  Povsic TJ, Najjar SS, Prather K, Zhou J, Adams SD, Zavodni KL, Kelly F, Melton LG, Hasselblad V, Heitner JF, Raman SV, Barsness GW, Patel MR, Kim RJ, Lakatta EG, Harrington RA, Rao SV. EPC mobilization after erythropoietin treatment in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: the REVEAL EPC substudy. J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2013;36(4):375-83.

86)  Marine JE, Shetty V, Chow GV, Wright J, Gerstenblith G, Najjar SS, Lakatta EG, Fleg JL. Prevalence and prognostic significance of exercise-induced non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in asymptomatic volunteers: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013; 62(7):595-600.

87)  Slaughter MS, Pagani FD, McGee EC, Birks EJ, Cotts WG, Gregoric I, Howard Frazier O, Icenogle T, Najjar SS, Boyce SW, Acker MA, John R, Hathaway DR, Najarian KB, Aaronson KD; HeartWare Bridge to Transplant ADVANCE Trial Investigators. HeartWare ventricular assist system for bridge to transplant: combined results of the bridge to transplant and continued access protocol trial. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2013;32(7):675-83.

88)  AlGhatrif M, Strait JB, Morrell CH, Canepa M, Wright J, Elango P, Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Ferrucci L, Lakatta EG. Longitudinal trajectories of arterial stiffness and the role of blood pressure: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Hypertension. 2013;62(5):934-941.

89)  Bottomley PA, Panjrath GS, Lai S, Hirsch GA, Wu K, Najjar SS, Steinberg A, Gerstenblith G, Weiss RG. Metabolic rates of ATP transfer through creatine kinase (CK Flux) predict clinical heart failure events and death. Sci Transl Med. 2013;5(215):215re3.

90)  Kapur NK, Paruchuri V, Jagannathan A, Steinberg D, Chakrabarti AK, Pinto D, Aghili N, Najjar SS, Finley J, Orr NM, Tempelhof M, Mudd JO, Kiernan MS, Pham DT, DeNofrio D. Mechanical circulatory support for right ventricular failure. JACC Heart Fail. 2013;1(2):127-34.

91)  Ben-Shlomo Y, Spears M, Boustred C, May M, Anderson SG, Benjamin EJ, Boutouyrie P, Cameron J, Chen CH, Cruickshank JK, Hwang SJ, Lakatta EG, Laurent S, Maldonado J, Mitchell GF, Najjar SS, Newman AB, Ohishi M, Pannier B, Pereira T, Vasan RS, Shokawa T, Sutton-Tyrell K, Verbeke F, Wang KL, Webb DJ, Willum Hansen T, Zoungas S, McEniery CM, Cockcroft JR, Wilkinson IB. Aortic pulse wave velocity improves cardiovascular event prediction: an individual participant meta-analysis of prospective observational data from 17,635 subjects. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63(7):636-646.

92)  Scuteri A, Morrell CH, Orrù M, Strait JB, Tarasov KV, Ferreli LA, Loi F, Pilia MG, Delitala A, Spurgeon H, Najjar SS, AlGhatrif M, Lakatta EG. Longitudinal perspective on the conundrum of central arterial stiffness, blood pressure, and aging. Hypertension. 2014;64(6):1219-1227.

93)  John R, Aaronson KD, Pae WE, Acker MA, Hathaway DR, Najarian KB, Slaughter MS; HeartWare Bridge to Transplant ADVANCE Trial Investigators. Drive-line infections and sepsis in patients receiving the HVAD system as a left ventricular assist device. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014;33(10):1066-73.

94)  Sperry BW, Fatemi O, Ruiz ME, Najjar SS. Late manifestation of a driveline infection after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014;33(3):324-325.

95)  Najjar SS, Slaughter MS, Pagani FD, Starling RC, McGee EC, Eckman P, Tatooles AJ, Moazami N, Kormos RL, Hathaway DR, Najarian KB, Bhat G, Aaronson KD, Boyce SW; HVAD Bridge to Transplant ADVANCE Trial Investigators. An analysis of pump thrombus events in patients in the HeartWare ADVANCE bridge to transplant and continued access protocol trial. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014;33(1):23-34.

96)  Sperry BW, Ruiz G, Najjar SS. Hospital readmission in heart failure, a novel analysis of a longstanding problem. Heart Fail Rev. 2015; 20(3):251-258.

97)  Birks EJ, McGee EC Jr, Aaronson KD, Boyce S, Cotts WG, Najjar SS, Pagani FD, Hathaway DR, Najarian K, Jacoski MV, Slaughter MS; ADVANCE Trial Investigators. An examination of survival by sex and race in the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device for the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure (ADVANCE) Bridge to Transplant (BTT) and continued access protocol trials. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015;34(6):815-24.

98)  Townsend RR, Wilkinson IB, Schiffrin EL, Avolio AP, Chirinos JA, Cockcroft JR, Heffernan KS, Lakatta EG, McEniery CM, Mitchell GF, Najjar SS, Nichols WW, Urbina EM, Weber T; American Heart Association Council on Hypertension. Recommendations for Improving and Standardizing Vascular Research on Arterial Stiffness: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Hypertension 2015; 66(3):698-722.

99)  Jorde UP, Aaronson KD, Najjar SS, Pagani FD, Hayward C, Zimpfer D, Schlöglhofer T, Pham DT, Goldstein DJ, Leadley K, Chow MJ, Brown MC, Uriel N. Identification and Management of Pump Thrombus in the HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist Device System: A Novel Approach Using Log File Analysis. JACC Heart Fail. 2015;3(11):849-856.

100)  Hamo CE, Klem I, Rao SV, Songco V, Najjar S, Lakatta EG, Raman SV, Harrington RA, Heitner JF. The Systematic Evaluation of Identifying the Infarct Related Artery Utilizing Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Patients Presenting with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. PLoS One. 2017;12(1):e0169108.

101)  Rogers JG, Pagani FD, Tatooles AJ, Bhat G, Slaughter MS, Birks EJ, Boyce SW, Najjar SS, Jeevanandam V, Anderson AS, Gregoric ID, Mallidi H, Leadley K, Aaronson KD, Frazier OH, Milano CA. Intrapericardial Left Ventricular Assist Device for Advanced Heart Failure. N Engl J Med. 2017;376(5):451-460.

102)  Maltais S, Aaronson KD, Teuteberg JJ, Slaughter MS, Najjar SS, Jeevanandam V, Pham DT, McGee EC Jr, Leadley K, Kormos RL. Adverse Event Rates Change Favorably Over Time for Patients Bridged With the HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist Device. ASAIO J. 2017;63(6):745-751.

103)  Kadakkal A, Najjar SS. Neurologic Events in Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Cardiol Clin. 2018; 36(4):531-539.

104)  Bansal A, Uriel N, Colombo PC, Narisetty K, Long JW, Bhimaraj A, Cleveland JC Jr, Goldstein DJ, Stulak JM, Najjar SS, Lanfear DE, Adler ED, Dembitsky WP, Somo SI, Crandall DL, Chen D, Connors JM, Mehra MR. Effects of a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal-flow or axial-flow left ventricular assist device on von Willebrand factor: A prospective multicenter clinical trial. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2019;38(8):806-816.

105)  Kiernan MS, Najjar SS, Vest AR, Birks EJ, Uriel N, Ewald GA, Leadley K, Patel CB. Outcomes of Severely Obese Patients Supported by a Centrifugal-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device. J Card Fail. 2020; 26(2):120-127.

106)  Himmler AN, Wahl CM, Trankiem CT, Najjar SS, Johnson LS. General Surgery in Patients with LVADs: Don't Cross the Line! J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020;89(3):e48-e50.

107)  Kenigsberg BB, Majure DT, Sheikh FH, Afari-Armah N, Rodrigo M, Hofmeyer M, Molina EJ, Wang Z, Boyce S, Najjar SS, Mohammed SF. Sex-Associated Differences in Cardiac Reverse Remodeling in Patients Supported by Contemporary Left Ventricular Assist Devices. J Card Fail. 2020; S1071-9164(19)31402-2.

108)  Saeed O, Colombo PC, Mehra MR, Uriel N, Goldstein DJ, Cleveland J, Connors JM, Najjar SS, Mokadam NA, Bansal A, Crandall DL, Sood P, Jorde UP. Effect of aspirin dose on hemocompatibility-related outcomes with a magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device: An analysis from the MOMENTUM 3 study. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020;39(6):518-525. 

109)  Guo A, Alnsasra H, Medvedofsky D, Najjar SS, Srichai MB. Rare Case of Coincident Quadricuspid Pulmonic Valve and Suprapulmonic Ridge: Multimodality Imaging. JACC Case Rep. 2020;2(14):2196-2198.

110)  Lam PH, Barac A, Nohria A, Reding KW, Najjar SS, Fonarow GC, Pan K, Sheriff H, Morgan CJ, Chlebowski RT, Klein L, Eaton CB, Howard BV, Ahmed A, Mohammed SF. Temporal Associations and Outcomes of Breast Cancer and Heart Failure in Postmenopausal Women. JACC CardioOncol. 2020;2(4):567-577.

111)  Agbor-Enoh S, Shah P, Tunc I, Hsu S, Russell S, Feller E, Shah K, Rodrigo ME, Najjar SS, Kong H, Pirooznia M, Fideli U, Bikineyeva A, Marishta A, Bhatti K, Yang Y, Mutebi C, Yu K, Jang MK, Marboe C, Berry GJ, Valantine HA; GRAfT Investigators. Cell-Free DNA to Detect Heart Allograft Acute Rejection.  Circulation. 2021; 143(12):1184-1197.

112)  AlGhatrif M, Morrell CH, Becker LC, Chantler PD, Najjar SS, Ferrucci L, Gerstenblith G, Lakatta EG. Longitudinal uncoupling of the heart and arteries with aging in a community-dwelling population.  Geroscience. 2021;43(2):551-561.

113)  Genuardi MV, Moss N, Najjar SS, Houston BA, Shore S, Vorovich E, Atluri P, Molina M, Chambers S, Sharkoski T, Hsich E, Estep JD, Owens AT, Alexander KM, Chaudhry SP, Garcia-Cortes R, Molina E, Rodrigo M, Wald MJ, Margulies KB, Hanff TC, Zimmer R, Kilic A, Mclean R, Vidula H, Dodd K, Blumberg EA, Mazurek JA, Goldberg LR, Alvarez-Garcia J, Mancini D, Teuteberg JJ, Tedford RJ, Birati EY. Coronavirus disease 2019 in heart transplant recipients: Risk factors, immunosuppression, and outcomes. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2021;40(9):926-935.

114)  Kitahara H, Najjar S, Ahmed S, Lam P, Kadakkal A, Rodrigo M, Hofmeyer M, Sheikh F, Molina E. Edge-to-edge mitral repair for iatrogenic chordal rupture related to Impella 5.0. J Card Surg. 2021;36(7):2541-2542.

115)  Grinstein J, Sawalha Y, Medvedofsky DA, Ahmad S, Hofmeyer M, Rodrigo M, Kadakkal A, Barnett C, Kalantari S, Talati I, Zaghol R, Molina EJ, Sheikh FH, Najjar SS. VE/VCO2 slope predicts RV dysfunction and mortality after left ventricular assist device: a fresh look at cardiopulmonary stress testing for prognostication. J Artif Organs. 2021;24(4):425-432

116)  Birati EY, Najjar SS, Tedford RJ, Houston BA, Shore S, Vorovich E, Atluri P, Urgo K, Molina M, Chambers S, Escobar N, Hsich E, Estep JD, Alexander KM, Teuteberg JJ, Chaudhry SP, Ravichandran A, DeVore AD, Margulies KB, Hanff TC, Zimmer R, Kilic A, Wald JW, Vidula H, Martens J, Blumberg EA, Mazurek JA, Owens AT, Goldberg LR, Alvarez-Garcia J, Mancini DM, Moss N, Genuardi MV. Characteristics and Outcomes of COVID-19 in Patients on Left Ventricular Assist Device Support. Circ Heart Fail. 2021; 14(4):e007957.

117)  Brown MA, Sheikh FH, Ahmed S, Najjar SS, Molina EJ. Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump as a Bridge to Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Aug 3;10(15):e019376.

118)  Rao A, Anderson KM, Mohammed S, Hofmeyer M, Gholami SS, Sheikh FH, Rodrigo ME, Crowell NA, Javed H, Gupta S, Hajouli S, Stewart DE, Hamad A, Najjar SS, Groninger H. Chronic Intravenous Inotropic Support as Palliative Therapy and Bridge Therapy for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: A Single-Center Experience. J Card Fail. 2021;27(9):974-980.

119)  Samsky MD, Milano CA, Pamboukian S, Slaughter MS, Birks E, Boyce S, Najjar SS, Itoh A, Reid B, Mokadam N, Aaronson KD, Pagani FD, Rogers JG. The Impact of Adverse Events on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life After HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. ASAIO J. 2021;67(10):1159-1162.

120)  Sheikh FH, Craig PE, Ahmed S, Torguson R, Kolm P, Weintraub WS, Molina EJ, Najjar SS, Mohammed SF. Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies Receiving Mechanical Circulatory Support: An STS-Intermacs Registry Analysis. J Card Fail. 2022;28(1):71-82.

121)  Singh M, Krishnan M, Ghazzal A, Halushka M, Tozzi JE, Bunning RD, Rodrigo ME, Najjar SS, Molina EJ, Sheikh FH. From Hip to Heart: A Comprehensive Evaluation of an Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy. CJC Open 2021; doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2021.06.010.

122)  Molina EJ, Ahmed S, Jain A, Lam PH, Rao S, Hockstein M, Kadakkal A, Hofmeyer M, Rodrigo ME, Najjar SS, Sheikh FH. Outcomes in patients with smaller body surface area after HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device implantation. Artif Organs. 2021 Sep 13. doi: 10.1111/aor.14065. Online ahead of print.

123)  Molina E, Jain A, Ahmed S, Lam P, Rao S, Hockstein M, Kadakkal A, Hofmeyer M, Rodrigo M, Chou J, Najjar S, Sheikh F. The impact of left ventricular size on outcomes after centrifugal-flow left ventricular assist device implantation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2021 Nov 11:ezab480. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezab480. Online ahead of print.

124)  Doshi A, Shah KB, Agbor-Enoh S, Tushak Z, Garcia V, Kong H, Jang MK, Hsu S, Feller ED, Rodrigo ME, Najjar SS, Tunc I, Yang Y, Lee S, Solomon MA, Berry G, Marboe C, Shah P, Valantine HA. Higher levels of allograft injury in black patients early after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2021 Dec 23:S1053-2498(21)02627-9. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2021.12.006. Online ahead of print.

ii. Original Papers in Refereed Journals (as part of consortia)

1)      Tabara Y, Kohara K, Kita Y, Hirawa N, Katsuya T, Ohkubo T, Hiura Y, Tajima A, Morisaki T, Miyata T, Nakayama T, Takashima N, Nakura J, Kawamoto R, Takahashi N, Hata A, Soma M, Imai Y, Kokubo Y, Okamura T, Tomoike H, Iwai N, Ogihara T, Inoue I, Tokunaga K, Johnson T, Caulfield M, Munroe P; Global Blood Pressure Genetics Consortium, Umemura S, Ueshima H, Miki T. Common variants in the ATP2B1 gene are associated with susceptibility to hypertension: the Japanese Millennium Genome Project. Hypertension. 2010;56(5):973-80.

2)      Ikram MK, Xueling S, Jensen RA, Cotch MF, Hewitt AW, Ikram MA, Wang JJ, Klein R, Klein BE, Breteler MM, Cheung N, Liew G, Mitchell P, Uitterlinden AG, Rivadeneira F, Hofman A, de Jong PT, van Duijn CM, Kao L, Cheng CY, Smith AV, Glazer NL, Lumley T, McKnight B, Psaty BM, Jonasson F, Eiriksdottir G, Aspelund T; Global BPgen Consortium, Harris TB, Launer LJ, Taylor KD, Li X, Iyengar SK, Xi Q, Sivakumaran TA, Mackey DA, Macgregor S, Martin NG, Young TL, Bis JC, Wiggins KL, Heckbert SR, Hammond CJ, Andrew T, Fahy S, Attia J, Holliday EG, Scott RJ, Islam FM, Rotter JI, McAuley AK, Boerwinkle E, Tai ES, Gudnason V, Siscovick DS, Vingerling JR, Wong TY. Four novel Loci (19q13, 6q24, 12q24, and 5q14) influence the microcirculation in vivo. PLoS Genet. 2010;6(10):e1001184.

3)      Fox ER, Young JH, Li Y, Dreisbach AW, Keating BJ, Musani SK, Liu K, Morrison AC, Ganesh S, Kutlar A, Ramachandran VS, Polak JF, Fabsitz RR, Dries DL, Farlow DN, Redline S, Adeyemo A, Hirschorn JN, Sun YV, Wyatt SB, Penman AD, Palmas W, Rotter JI, Townsend RR, Doumatey AP, Tayo BO, Mosley TH Jr, Lyon HN, Kang SJ, Rotimi CN, Cooper RS, Franceschini N, Curb JD, Martin LW, Eaton CB, Kardia SL, Taylor HA, Caulfield MJ, Ehret GB, Johnson T; The International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-wide Association Studies (ICBP-GWAS); CARDIoGRAM consortium; CKDGen consortium; KidneyGen consortium; EchoGen consortium; CHARGE-HF consortium, Chakravarti A, Zhu X, Levy D. Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study. Hum Mol Genet. 2011;20(11):2273-2284.

4)      Johnson T, Gaunt TR, Newhouse SJ, Padmanabhan S, Tomaszewski M, Kumari M, Morris RW, Tzoulaki I, O'Brien ET, Poulter NR, Sever P, Shields DC, Thom S, Wannamethee SG, Whincup PH, Brown MJ, Connell JM, Dobson RJ, Howard PJ, Mein CA, Onipinla A, Shaw-Hawkins S, Zhang Y, Davey Smith G, Day IN, Lawlor DA, Goodall AH; Cardiogenics Consortium, Fowkes FG, Abecasis GR, Elliott P, Gateva V; Global BPgen Consortium, Braund PS, Burton PR, Nelson CP, Tobin MD, van der Harst P, Glorioso N, Neuvrith H, Salvi E, Staessen JA, Stucchi A, Devos N, Jeunemaitre X, Plouin PF, Tichet J, Juhanson P, Org E, Putku M, Sõber S, Veldre G, Viigimaa M, Levinsson A, Rosengren A, Thelle DS, Hastie CE, Hedner T, Lee WK, Melander O, Wahlstrand B, Hardy R, Wong A, Cooper JA, Palmen J, Chen L, Stewart AF, Wells GA, Westra HJ, Wolfs MG, Clarke R, Franzosi MG, Goel A, Hamsten A, Lathrop M, Peden JF, Seedorf U, Watkins H, Ouwehand WH, Sambrook J, Stephens J, Casas JP, Drenos F, Holmes MV, Kivimaki M, Shah S, Shah T, Talmud PJ, Whittaker J, Wallace C, Delles C, Laan M, Kuh D, Humphries SE, Nyberg F, Cusi D, Roberts R, Newton-Cheh C, Franke L, Stanton AV, Dominiczak AF, Farrall M, Hingorani AD, Samani NJ, Caulfield MJ, Munroe PB. Blood pressure loci identified with a gene-centric array. Am J Hum Genet. 2011;89(6):688-700.

5)      Ganesh SK, Chasman DI, Larson MG, Guo X, Verwoert G, Bis JC, Gu X, Smith AV, Yang ML, Zhang Y, Ehret G, Rose LM, Hwang SJ, Papanicolau GJ, Sijbrands EJ, Rice K, Eiriksdottir G, Pihur V, Ridker PM, Vasan RS, Newton-Cheh C; Global Blood Pressure Genetics Consortium, Raffel LJ, Amin N, Rotter JI, Liu K, Launer LJ, Xu M, Caulfield M, Morrison AC, Johnson AD, Vaidya D, Dehghan A, Li G, Bouchard C, Harris TB, Zhang H, Boerwinkle E, Siscovick DS, Gao W, Uitterlinden AG, Rivadeneira F, Hofman A, Willer CJ, Franco OH, Huo Y, Witteman JC, Munroe PB, Gudnason V, Palmas W, van Duijn C, Fornage M, Levy D, Psaty BM, Chakravarti A. Effects of long-term averaging of quantitative blood pressure traits on the detection of genetic associations. Am J Hum Genet. 2014;95(1):49-65.

6)      Nicholson CJ, Singh K, Saphirstein RJ, Gao YZ, Li Q, Chiu JG, Leavis P, Verwoert GC, Mitchell GF; AortaGen Consortium, Porter T, Morgan KG. Reversal of Aging-Induced Increases in Aortic Stiffness by Targeting Cytoskeletal Protein-Protein Interfaces. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018;7(15). pii: e008926

iii. Reviews or Editorials in Refereed Journals

1)      Najjar SS. IMT as a Risk Marker: The Plot Thickens. J Am Soc Echocardiog 2009;22(5):505-7.

2)      Najjar SS. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Failure to Preserve, Failure in Reserve, and Failure on the Compliance Curve. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;54(5):419-21.

3)      Najjar SS. Late bleeding and neurological sequelae after HeartMate II left ventricular assist device: Risk factors from the prequel. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63(9):889-890.

iv. Books or Chapters in Books

1)      Najjar SS, Juang G.  Valvular Heart Disease.  In The Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine Board Review Book.  Miller R, Ashar B, Peairs K (editors).  Mosby, Philadelphia, PA, 2004:40-47.

2)      Najjar SS, Lakatta EG.  Aging of the Heart and Arteries: Relevance to Cardiovascular Disease.  In Contemporary Cardiology: Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly. Gerstenblith G (editor).  Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2005:1-50.

3)      Najjar SS, Lakatta EG.  Vascular Aging: From Molecular to Clinical Cardiology.  In Principles of Molecular Cardiology.  Patterson WC, Runge M (editors).  Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2005:517-547.

4)      Najjar SS, Gerstenblith G, Lakatta EG.  Aging and the Cardiovascular System. In Cardiovascular Medicine 3rd edition.  Willerson JT, Cohn JN, Wellens HJJ, Holmes DR (editors).  Springer-Verlag, London 2007:2439-2451.

5)      Lakatta EG, Najjar SS, Schulman SP, Gerstenblith G. Cardiovascular Aging in the Absence of Clinical Disease, and Therapeutic Considerations for Older Patients with Clinical Cardiovascular Diseases.   In Hurst’s The Heart, 12th edition.  Fuster V, O’Rourke RA, Walsh RA, Poole-Wilson PA (editors).  McGraw-Hill Medical, New York, NY, 2008:2247-2274.

6)      Lakatta EG, Najjar SS. Aging, Hypertension, and the Heart. In Hypertension Primer, 4th edition. Izzo JL, Black HR (editors). Lippincott Williams &Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2008:184-188.

7)      Lakatta EG, Najjar SS, Schulman SP, Gerstenblith G. Aging and cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly.   In Hurst’s The Heart, 13th edition.  Fuster V, Walsh RA, Harrington RA (editors).  McGraw-Hill Medical, New York, NY, 2011:2196-2225.

8)      NajjarSS, Lakatta EG, Gerstenblith G. Cardiovascular Aging: The Next Frontier in Cardiovascular Prevention. In Preventive Cardiology. A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease. Blumenthal R, Foody JM, Wong ND (editors). Elsevier, Philadelphia PA, 2011: 415-432.

v. Letters and other Publications

1)      Punjabi NM, Najjar S, Williams R, Whelton A.  An Alternative Method for Administering Loop Diuretics in the Management of Decompensated Congestive Heart Failure.  The Osler Medical Journal October 1996; 1:1-6.

2)      Lakatta EG, Najjar SS.  Vascular Aging: An Emerging New Global Cardiovascular Risk.  Keynote Paper, Second World Assembly on Aging, April 2002 http://www.valenciaforum.com/Keynotes/el.html.

3)      Morrell CH, Brant LJ, Sheng S, Najjar SS.  Using Multivariate Mixed-Effects Models to Predict Hypertension.  The Proceedings of the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association 2003; 2916-2921.

4)      Ruggiero C, Cherubini A, Najjar SS, Ferrucci L.  Reply. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;50(18):1810-1811.

5)      Shetty V, Morrell CH, Najjar SS.  Modeling a Cross-Sectional Response Variable with Longitudinal Predictors: An Example of Pulse Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity.  The Proceedings of the Statistics in Epidemiology Section of the American Statistical Association 2007;2453-2457.

6)      Najjar SS, Rao SV, Harrington RA. Eryhtropoietin in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. JAMA 2011;306(7):705-6.

7)      Shah P, Agbor-Enoh S, Tunc I, Hsu S, Russell S, Feller E, Shah K, Rodrigo ME, Najjar SS, Kong H, Pirooznia M, Fideli U, Bikineyeva A, Marishta A, Bhatti K, Yang Y, Mutebi C, Yu K, Kyoo Jang M, Marboe C, Berry GJ, Valantine HA; GRAfT (Genomic Research Alliance for Transplantation) Investigators. Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Cell-Free DNA to Detect Heart Allograft Acute Rejection". Circulation. 2021 Sep 7;144(10):e198-e199.

vi. Abstracts for Conference papers and posters

Available upon request

B. Research Funding:

i. Current Active

-Agency: n/a

Identifying number: NCT03925324

Title of Project: A randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter Placebo-Controlled Phase IIa Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Delivery of Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Patients with a Cardiomyopathy and Severe Heart Failure who Required Implantation of a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)

Dates of Project Period: 03May2019-present

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 2%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying number: NCT02892955

Title of Project: MOMENTUM 3 Multi-Center Study of MagLev Technology in Patients Undergoing MCS Therapy with HeartMate 3™ Continued Access Protocol

Dates of Project Period: 01September2016-present

Role on Project: Sub-investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying number: NCT02892979

Title of Project: MOMENTUM 3 Pivotal Cohort Extended Follow-up Post-Approval Study

Dates of Project Period: 20June2019-present

Role on Project: Sub-investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT01966458

Title of Project: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Unblinded, Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device System for Destination Therapy of Advanced Heart Failure (ENDURANCE SUPPLEMENTAL)

Dates of Project Period: 14Oct2013-present

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: FDA/CMS/NHLBI

Identifying Number: NCT00119834

Title of Project: Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS)

Dates of Project Period:              22Feb2013-present

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: NHLBI

Identifying Number: NCT02423070

Title of Project: Genome Transplant Dynamics

Dates of Project Period:              01Nov2015-present

Corresponding PI: Maria Rodrigo, MD

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

ii. Previous

-Agency: n/a                           

Identifying Number: NCT02224755

Title of Project: Thoratec Corporation MOMENTUM 3, Multi-center Study of MagLev Technology in Patients Undergoing MCS Therapy With HeartMate 3™ IDE Clinical Study Protocol

Dates of Project Period:              2015-2020

Corresponding PI: Farooq Sheikh, MD

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Percent Effort: 3%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT01832610

Title of Project: A Multi Center, Post Approval Study Providing Continued Evaluation and Follow-up on Patients Who Received a HeartWare Ventricular Assist System During IDE Trials for the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure

Dates of Project Period:              2013-2018

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 5%

-Agency: n/a             

Identifying Number: NCT02268942

Title of Project: A Prospective, Single Arm, Multi-Center Clinical Study in Collaboration With the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS®) to Evaluate the Thoracotomy Implant Technique of the HeartWare HVAD System in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure (HVAD LATERAL)

Dates of Project Period:              2015-2019

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 5%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT01166347

Title of Project: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Un-blinded, Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the HeartWare® Ventricular Assist System (VAS) for Destination Therapy of Advanced Heart Failure (ENDURANCE)

Dates of Project Period:              2010-2018

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 5%

-Agency: n/a             

Identifying Number: NCT00751972

Title of Project: Evaluation of the HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist Device for the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure

Dates of Project Period:              05Feb2010-16Aug2013

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 5%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT02252653

Title of Project: DISCOVERY: A Study Examining the Prevalence of TTR Mutations in Subjects Suspected of Having Cardiac Amyloidosis

Dates of Project Period:              2015-2016

Corresponding PI: Farooq Sheikh, MD

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: n/a             

Identifying Number: NCT02126943

Title of Project: US-based, Observational, Drug Registry of Opsumit (Macitentan) New Users in Clinical Practice

Dates of Project Period:              2015-2018

Corresponding PI: Chris Barnett, MD

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT02406820

Title of Project: Characterizing Noninvasive Cardiovascular Measures Collected Passively and In Response to an Isometric Handgrip Stress Test From CVInsight®, Connex ProBP, and Zio® XT Patch in Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Dates of Project Period:              2015-2016

Corresponding PI: David Majure, MD

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT01870778

Title of Project: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Phase III Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Seralaxin When Added to Standard Therapy in Acute Heart Failure Patients

Dates of Project Period: 2014-2017

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 1%

-Agency: NHLBI, NIH

Identifying Number: NCT01442129

Title of Project: LVAD Therapy: Exploring the Effect of Intramyocardial Injection of Mesenchymal Precursor Cells on Myocardial Function

Dates of Project Period:              06May2010-07Mar2013

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 2%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT00894387

Title of Project: Six Months Efficacy and Safety of Aliskiren Therapy on Top of Standard Therapy, on Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ASTRONAUT)

Dates of Project Period:              16Apr2012-27Mar2013

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort:  1%

-Agency: n/a

Identifying Number: NCT00121472

Title of Project: Thoratec HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) for Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation

Dates of Project Period:              03May2010-10Aug2012

Corresponding PI: Steven W. Boyce, MD

Role on Project: Co-Investigator\

Percent Effort: 2%

-Agency: American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Merck

Title: The Prognostic Significance of Vascular Stiffness Following Myocardial Infarction

Dates: 1998-1999

Total direct costs: $35,000

Role: Principal Investigator

Percent Effort: 10%

-As a member of the intramural research program at the NIH, I was not eligible for extramural NIH funding (2000-2009)

iii. Contracts:

-Agency: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Contract # NO1-AG-8-2109

Title: Non-invasive Assessment of Cardiac Structure and Function in Aging Men and Women

Dates: 2002-2009

Total costs: $4,868,058

Role: NIA Project Officer

Description: I supervised all cardiac and vascular measurements performed on research study subjects at NIA, including electrocardiography, echocardiography, tonometry and pulse wave velocity

Percent Effort: 15%

-Agency: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Contract # NO1-AG-3-1003

Title: Vascular Aging: The Link that Bridges Age to Atherosclerosis (The Validate Study)

Dates: 2003-2009

Total costs: $5,139,837

Role: NIA Project Officer

Description: I designed and oversaw a clinical study that evaluated the longitudinal changes in cardiac and vascular structure and function in healthy volunteers and patients with premature atherosclerosis

Description: Percent Effort: 20%

-Agency: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Contract # NO1-AG-260-05-10

Title: Effects of Erythropoietin on Infarct Size and Left Ventricular Remodeling in Survivors of Large Myocardial Infarctions

Dates: 2005-2009

Total costs: $5,548,473

Role: NIA Project Officer

Description: I designed a multi-center randomized double blind study in patients with acute myocardial infarction and oversaw the conduct of the study with a CRA

Percent Effort: 25%

-Agency: National Institutes of Health and Alteon Inc.

Title: Systolic and Blood Pressure Hemodynamic Improvement by Restoring Elasticity: The SAPPHIRE Study

Dates: 2001-2003

Funding: Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA)

Role: Principal Investigator for the NIA

Description: I recruited patients with isolated systolic hypertension into this multicenter study and supervised the acquisition of carotid ultrasonography studies

Percent Effort: 10%

C. Invited Lectures:

-Grand Rounds, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, September 2001

-Invited Speaker, 12TH Annual Special Topics in Cardiopulmonary Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation, Baltimore, MD, October 2001

-Invited Speaker, Clinical and Research Aspects of Heart Failure, Cambridge, MD, November 2003

-Invited Speaker, Advanced Medical and Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure, Baltimore, MD, May 2004

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, August 2004

-Invited speaker at the 2nd Annual Nathan W. Shock Symposium, Baltimore, MD, October 2004

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, MD, March 2005

-Keynote speaker at the annual Blood Vessel Club/American Society of Investigational Pathology meetings, San Diego, CA, April 2005

-Invited speaker, Smithsonian Mini-Med School Lecture Series, Washington, DC, May 2005

-Grand Rounds, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, September 2006

-Invited speaker, NAAMA, Washington, DC, September 2007

-Invited speaker, Inaugural William R. Hazzard MD Symposium on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, September 2007

-Invited speaker, American University of Beirut Alumni Association of North America, Washington, DC, October 2007

-Invited speaker, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Orlando, FL, November 2007

-Grand Rounds, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, May 2008

-Invited speaker, American Heart Association Cardiovascular Epidemiology Council meetings, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2008

-Invited speaker, Renal Disease Interest Group, Welch Center for Prevention Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, May 2008

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, June 2008

-Invited speaker, National Institute on Aging Summer Retreat, Baltimore, MD, September 2008

-Invited speaker, Society of Geriatric Cardiology: Summit on Maximizing Functional Capacity in Older Cardiovascular Patients, Washington, DC, October 2008

-Invited speaker, Diabetes/Obesity Interest Group, Welch Center for Prevention Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 2008

-Invited speaker, Satellite Symposium American Society of Nephrology Scientific Sessions, Philadelphia, PA, November 2008

-Invited speaker, Satellite Symposium American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, LA, November 2008

-Invited speaker, The Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, November 2008

-Invited speaker, North American Artery’s Conference on Central Blood Pressure Measurement: an Opportunity for Efficacy and Safety in Clinical Trials and Drug Development? Bethesda, MD, December 2008

-Invited speaker, Seventh International Workshop on Structure and Function of the Vascular System, Paris, France, March 2009

-Invited speaker, American Society of Echocardiography 20th Annual Scientific Sessions, Washington, DC, June 2009

-Invited speaker, Controversies in Cardiac Arrhythmias: 2009 summit, Washington, DC, September 2009

-Invited Speaker, North American Artery’s Conference on Central Blood Pressure Measurement, Bethesda, MD, October 2009

-Invited Speaker, Geriatric Medicine Update, Washington, DC, November 2009

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, December 2009

-Invited Speaker, MedStar St Mary’s Hospital, Leonardtown, MD, February 2010

-Grand Rounds, Division of Cardiology, Providence Hospital, Washington, DC, June 2010

-Invited Speaker, North American Arab American Medical Association, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2010

-Invited Speaker, Dilemmas in Cardiovascular Medicine, Washington, DC, October 2010

- Grand Rounds, Division of Cardiology, MedStar Franklin Square Hospital, Baltimore, MD, December 2010

-Invited Speaker, Mid-Atlantic VAD and ECMO Symposium, Bethesda, MD, April 2011

-Invited Speaker, American Society of Extracorporeal Technology, New Orleans, LA, April 2011

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Calvert Memorial Hospital, Prince Frederick, MD, May 2011

- Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Prince George’s Hospital, Cheverly, MD, May 2011

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2011

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Ain ou Zayn Hospital, Chouf, Lebanon, August 2011

-Invited Speaker, Dilemmas in Cardiovascular Medicine, Washington, DC, October 2011

-Invited Speaker, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, November 2011

-Invited Speaker, Interventional Cardiology: 27th Annual International Symposium, Snowmass Village, CO, March 2012

-Invited Speaker, Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, MD, April 2012

- Invited Speaker, Mid-Atlantic VAD and ECMO Symposium, Washington, DC, April 2012

-Invited Speaker, American Society of Extracorporeal Technology, Orlando, FL, April 2012

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2012

- Invited Speaker, AACN Spotlight on Critical Care, Springfield, VA, October 2012

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, MedStar Montgomery General Hospital, Olney, MD, November 2012

- Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Prince George’s Hospital, Cheverly, MD, January 2013

- Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital, Clinton, MD, January 2013

- Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, VA, January 2013

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Peninsula Regional Hospital, Salisbury, MD, March 2013

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, March 2013

-Invited Speaker, Heart Failure Summit, Bethesda, MD, April 2013

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2013

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, MD, July 2013

-Invited Speaker, Women Conference, Bethesda, MD, November 2013

-Invited Speaker, Dilemmas in Cardiovascular Medicine, Washington, DC, October 2013

-Invited Speaker, Coastal Cardiovascular Conference, Cambridge, MD, February 2014

-Grand Rounds, Division of Cardiology, Westchester Hospital, Westchester, NY, May 2014

-Invited Speaker, INTERMACS 8th Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA May 2014

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2014

-Invited Speaker, Cardiology for Primary Care Practitioner, Hyattsville, MD, May 2015

-Invited Speaker, Washington Society of Health System Pharmacists, Chevy Chase, MD, May 2015

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2015

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, July 2015

-Invited Speaker, Controversies in Cardiac Arrhythmias: 2015 summit, Washington, DC, September 2015

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, MedStar Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, MD, October 2015

-Invited Speaker, MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute and Cleveland Clinic Contemporary Management of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, October 2015

-Invited Speaker, 2015 Update on the Treatment of Heart and Vascular Disease, National Harbor, MD, November 2015

-Invited Speaker, ISHLT Academy Core Competencies Course on Mechanical Circulatory Support, Washington DC, April 2016

-Invited Speaker, HVAD Pump Waveforms: Real-time, Non-invasive Monitoring, Washington DC, April 2016

-Invited Speaker, Frontline Cardiology: 365 Days of Progress Conference, Hyattsville, MD, May 2016

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2016

-Invited Speaker, ISHLT Academy Core Competencies Course on Mechanical Circulatory Support, San Diego, CA, April 2017

-Invited Speaker, Frontline Cardiology 2017: Cardiovascular Care in the Community, Hyattsville, MD, May 2017

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2017

-Invited Speaker, Advanced Heart Failure Symposium 2018, American Association of Heart Failure Nurses, Philadelphia, PA, March 2018

-Invited Speaker, ISHLT Academy Core Competencies Course on Mechanical Circulatory Support, Nice, France, April 2018

-Invited Speaker, Frontline Cardiology 2018: Cardiovascular Care in the Community, Hyattsville, MD, April 2018

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2018

- Grand Rounds, Division of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, July 2018

-Invited Speaker, 28th Controversies in Cardiac Arrhythmias 2018, Washington, DC, September 2018

-Invited Speaker, Advanced Heart Failure 30th Anniversary Summit, Greenbelt, MD, October 2018

-Invited Speaker, Advanced Heart Failure Symposium 2019, American Association of Heart Failure Nurses, Philadelphia, PA, March 2019

-Invited Speaker, American College of Physicians Board Exam Preparation Course, Alexandria, VA, July 2019

-Invited Speaker, 29th Controversies in Cardiac Arrhythmias 2019, Washington, DC, September 2019

-Invited Speaker, MedStar Heart Failure Summit 2019, Bethesda, MD, October 2019

-Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, October 2019

E. Editorships, Editorial Boards, and Reviewing Activities

Editorial Board: Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences

                            Role: Member of Editorial Board

                            Dates: 2006-2010

Journal Reviewer (2010-present)

American Heart Journal

                            American Journal of Cardiology

                            American Journal of Hypertension

                            American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Circulation

Clinical Transplantation

European Journal of Heart Failure

International Journal of Cardiology

JAMA

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging

Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Heart Failure

                            Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

3. TEACHING, MENTORING, AND ADVISING

A. Teaching Activities

i. Medical School Courses

Name and Course Number: Pathology Course (second year)

Role: Speaker

Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 1

Year(s) Taught: 2011-present

Number of Students: 200

Overall Evaluation Score: 4.35

Average number of Clinical Fellows you train per year = 13

Average number of Residents you train per year = 25

Average number of Medical students you train per year = 1

ii. Training Programs

Name: Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship

Role: Founding Program Director,

Location: MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC

Years: 2013-present

Name: Advanced Heart Failure service

Role: Medical Director

Location: MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC

Years: 2009-present

Name: Ambulatory Specialties Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Bayview House Officers

Role: Cardiology Section Leader

Location: Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Years: 2005-2009             

B. Mentoring:

Name of Mentee: Saswata Deb

Dates of Mentorship: 2001-2002

Present Position: Faculty, University of Toronto

Name of Mentee: Carolina Valdes

Dates of Mentorship: 2002-2003

Present Position: Private Practice

Name of Mentee: Vojtech Melenovsky, MD, PhD

Dates of Mentorship: 2003-2006

Present Position: Faculty, Division of Cardiology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

Name of Mentee: Paul Chantler, PhD

Dates of Mentorship: 2005-2009

Present Position: Faculty, West Virginia University

Name of Mentee: Wook Hyon Cho, MD PhD

Dates of Mentorship: 2006-2008

Present Position: Faculty, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Inje University, Seoul, South Korea

Name of Mentee: S. Morteza Farasat, MD

Dates of Mentorship: 2006-2009

Present Position: Private Practice

Name of Mentee: Maria Rodrigo, MD

Dates of Mentorship: 2013-2014

Present Position: Faculty, MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Name of Mentee: Fabio Ricci-Gorbea, MD

Dates of Mentorship: 2014-2015

Present Position: Private Practice, Puerto Rico

Name of Mentee: Sandeep Jani, MD

Dates of Mentorship: 2015-2016

Present Position: Faculty, MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute

Name of Mentee: Nana Afari-Armah, MD

Dates of Mentorship: 2016-2017

Present Position: Faculty, Temple University

Name of Mentee: Tania Vora, MD

Dates of Mentorship: 2017-2018

Present Position: Staff, Kaiser Mid-Atlantic

Name of Mentee: Prasheeda Bremjit, MD

Dates of Mentorship: 2018-2019

Present Position: Private Practice, Florida

4. SERVICE

A. University Service:

i. Johns Hopkins University

Role: Member

Committee Name: Fellowship Selection Committee, Division of Cardiology

Dates: 2001-2003

ii. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Role: Member

Committee Name: Clinical Investigators’ Committee

Dates: 2000-2009

Role: Member

Committee Name: Executive Committee, Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

Dates: 2000-2009

Role: Chair

Committee Name: Cardiovascular Staff Clinician Search Committee

Dates: 2003

Role: Chair

Committee Name: BLSA Staff Clinician Search Committee

Dates: 2003

Role: Member

Committee Name: Clinical Director Search Committee

Dates: 2003-2004

Role: Member

Committee Name: Neuroimaging Staff Clinician Search Committee             

Dates: 2004-2006

Role: Member

Committee Name: Scientific Review Committee

Dates: 2008-2009

iii. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Role: Member

Committee Name: Internship Selection Committee, Department of Medicine

Dates: 2001-2003

Role: Co-chair

Committee Name: CHF Performance Improvement Committee

Dates: 2002-2005

B. MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Role: Member

Committee Name: Cardiology Quality Control Committee

Dates: 2009-2012

Role: Co-chair

Committee Name: MedStar Integrated Heart Failure Initiative

Dates: 2009-2012

Role: Member

Committee Name: Strategic Planning Committee, MedStar Heart Institute

Dates: 2011-2013

Role: Co-chair

Committee Name: Heart Transplant Multidisciplinary Task Force

Dates: 2014-2015

Role: Co-Chair

Committee Name: Heart Transplant Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement Committee

Dates: 2009-present

Role: Co-chair

Committee Name: LVAD Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement Committee

Dates: 2009-present

Role: Member

Committee Name: Advanced HF Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement Committee

Dates: 2009-present

Role: Chair

Committee Name: Advanced Heart Failure Selection Committee

Dates: 2010-present

Role: Member

Committee Name: Cardiology Practice Committee

Dates: 2012-2019

Role: Member

Committee Name: Peer Review Committee

Dates: 2019-present

Role: Co-Chair

Committee Name: MedStar Cardiology Clinical Practice Council

Dates: 2016-present

Role: Chair

Committee Name: MWHC Multidisciplinary Shock Team

Dates: 2020-present

C. Professional Service:

Role: Member of Study Section

Committee Name: NIH Study Section: Population Sciences and Epidemiology Integrated Review Group

Date: 2010

Role: Scientific Chair

Organization: NAAMA, Annual International Convention

Date: 2009-2010

Role: Vice President (Founding)

Organization: North American Artery

Date: 2009-2012

5. HONORS AND AWARDS

Award: Dean’s High Honor List

Institution: American University of Beirut

Date: 1985

Award: Dean’s High Honor List

Institution: American University of Beirut

Date: 1986

Award: Harvard College Honorary Scholarship

Institution: Harvard University

Date: 1987

Award: John Harvard Honorary Scholarship

Institution: Harvard University

Date: 1988

Award: Tutorship Award

Institution: Harvard University

Date: 1988

Award: Harvard College Honorary Scholarship

Institution: Harvard University

Date: 1989

Award: Merck Book Award

Institution: Yale University School of Medicine

Date: 1993

Award: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society

Institution: Yale University School of Medicine

Date: 1993

Award: Cardiology Research Fellowship

Organization: American College of cardiology/Merck

Date: 1999

Award: Best Poster Award

Organization: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

Date: 2004

Award: On the Spot Group Award

Institution: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Date: 2008

6. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

Society Name: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society

Dates: 1993-present

Society Name: American Heart Association

Dates: 2000-present

Society Name: American College of Cardiology

Dates: 2001-2006; 2009-present

Society Name: North American Artery

Leadership Role: Vice-President (Founding)

Dates: 2009-2013

Society Name: Heart Failure Society of America

Dates: 2010-present

Society Name: International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Dates: 2010-present

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