Cardionerds: A Cardiology Podcast

In this episode, CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal ), Cardio-OB series co-chair and UT Southwestern cardiology fellow, Dr. Sonia Shah , and episode lead fellow, Dr. Laurie Femnou ( UT Southwestern ) are joined by Dr. Michael Luna ( UT Southwestern ) to discuss cardiovascular interventions during pregnancy . We discuss practical considerations for performing coronary angiography and valvular interventions i...

CardioN erds Rounds Co-Chair, Dr. Karan Desai , joins Dr. Michelle Kittleson (Director of Postgraduate Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, Director of Heart Failure Research, and Professor of Medicine at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai ) to discuss challenging cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy . As a guideline author on the 2020 ACC/AHA Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Guidelin...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ) join CardioNerds Ambassadors Dr. Pablo Sanchez (FIT, Stanford University) and Dr. Christine Shen (FIT, Scripps Clinic ) for a discussion with Dr. Bob Harrington (Interventional Cardiologist, Professor of Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University ) about diversity and inclusion in the field of cardiology. This episode dis...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder ), are joined by guest host Dr. Alex Pipilas  ( CardioNerds Ambassader , Boston University ), and Cleveland Clinic fellows , Dr. Gary Parizher , Dr. Ambreen Ali , and Dr. Tiffany Dong . They discuss a case of an 18-year-old man with Autism Spectrum Disorder presented with advanced nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. Due to anxiety...

Pregnancy is a hypercoagulable state associated with increased risk of thromboembolism. Managing anticoagulation during pregnancy has implications for both the mother and the fetus. CardioNerd   Amit Goyal  joins Dr. Akanksha Agrawal (Cardiology Fellow at Emory University ), Dr. Natalie Stokes (Cardiology Fellow at UPMC and Co-Chair of the Cardionerds Cardio-Ob series ), and Dr. Katie Be...

The CardioNerds are thrilled to launch The Cardiac Critical Care Series! The series Co-Chairs – Dr. Mark Belkin (Advanced Heart Failure FIT, U Chicago ), Dr. Yoav Karpenshif (FIT, U Penn ), Dr. Eunice Dugan (CardioNerds Academy Chief Fellow and FIT, Cleveland Clinic ), and Dr. Karan Desai (CardioNerds Academy Editor and FIT, U Maryland ) – join CardioNerds Co-Founders, Amit Goyal and Daniel...

CardioNerds Tommy Das (Program Director of the  CardioNerds Academy  and cardiology fellow at  Cleveland Clinic ) and Rick Ferraro (Director of CardioNerds Journal Club and cardiology fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital ) join Dr. Erin Michos (Associate Professor of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of Preventative Cardiology) for...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder ), join CardioNerds FIT Ambassador , Dr. Natasha Cuk and her co-fellows, Dr. Lily Stern , and Dr. Paul Marano from the Cedars-Sinai Cardiology Fellowship for some late afternoon smoothies on the beach. They discuss the case of a 46-year-old woman who presented with sudden cardiac arrest and was ultimately found to have a mobile intralu...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder ),  ACHD series co-chair Dr. Agnes Koczo ( UPMC ), and episode FIT lead, Dr. Natasha Wolfe (Washington University) join Dr. Ari Cedars    (Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Johns Hopkins ) for a discussion about coarctation of the aorta .   In this episode we discuss the presentation and mana...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ), Cardio-OB series co-chair and University of Texas Southwestern Cardiology Fellow,  Dr. Sonia Shah , and episode FIT lead and UT Southwestern Cardiology Fellow Dr. Laurie Femnou discuss valvular heart disease in pregnancy with cardio-obstetrics expert Dr. Uri Elkayam , Professor of Medicine and OB Gyn at the University of Southern California. In...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder ), join CardioNerds FIT Ambassador , Dr. Pablo Sanchez , and his co-fellows, Dr. Jimmy Tooley and Dr. Maggie Ning from Stanford University for an important case discussion about an An otherwise healthy young adult presented with fatigue and was found to be in complete heart block due to sarcoidosis . Dr. Ronald Witteles, (Stanford University Program...

CardioNerds Dan Ambinder , Dr. Tommy Das (Program Director of the  CardioNerds Academy  and cardiology fellow at  Cleveland Clinic ), and episode lead, Dr. Teodora Donisan ( CardioNerds Academy fellow and incoming Chief fellow and Beaumont Health Internal Medicine resident) join Dr. Matthew Budoff (professor of medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Endowed Chair of Preventive...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Josh Saef ) join ACHD fellow Dr. Prashanth Venkatesh and ACHD program director Dr. Jeannette Lin , both from the University of California, Los Angeles , for a deep dive into the complex disease entity that is Ebstein anomaly . They discuss the anatomic features of the dysplastic tricuspid valve as well as the right ventricle in patients with Ebstein anomaly, and how th...

CardioNerds ,  Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder , join  Duke University  CardioNerds  Ambassador  and  Correspondent ,  Dr. Kelly Arps  for the diuretic showdown of a lifetime. Join us for this  Cardiology vs. Nephrology  discussion and respective approach to volume overload and diuretic strategies with  Dr. Michael Felker  (Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Division of Cardiology at Duke U...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder ), join Dr. Anjali Wagle ( Internal medicine resident, Johns Hopkins Hospital) and Dr. Nick Smith ( Cardiology fellow, Johns Hopkins Hospital ) for an important discussion involving a patient with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy and biventricular heart failure who had developed diuretic resistance . They discuss the role for invasi...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ), Cardio-OB series co-chair and University of Texas Southwestern Cardiology Fellow,  Dr. Sonia Shah , episode lead fellow, Dr. Kaitlyn Ibrahim ( Temple University now practicing with Lankenau Heart Group ), join Dr. Afshan Hameed (Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, UC Irvine ), Dr. Paul Forfia (Co-Director, Pulmonary Hypertensio...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal ,  Daniel Ambinder ) and Dr. Mark Belkin , ( CardioNerds Correspondent ) and Dr. Shirlene Obuobi ( CardioNerds Ambassador ) from University of Chicago are honored to bring to you the Dr. Milton Packer perspective on the evolution of the neurohormonal hypothesis as part of The CardioNerds Heart Success Series. In part 6 Dr. Packer reflects on a conversation he had with Dr....

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal ,  Daniel Ambinder ) and Dr. Mark Belkin , ( CardioNerds Correspondent ) and Dr. Shirlene Obuobi ( CardioNerds Ambassador ) from University of Chicago are honored to bring to you the Dr. Milton Packer perspective on the evolution of the neurohormonal hypothesis as part of The CardioNerds Heart Success Series. In part 5, Dr. Packer shares his thoughts on the term...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal ,  Daniel Ambinder ) and Dr. Mark Belkin , ( CardioNerds Correspondent ) and Dr. Shirlene Obuobi ( CardioNerds Ambassador ) from University of Chicago are honored to bring to you the Dr. Milton Packer perspective on the evolution of the neurohormonal hypothesis as part of The CardioNerds Heart Success Series. In part 4, Dr. Packer shares his perspective on the r...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal ,  Daniel Ambinder ) and Dr. Mark Belkin , ( CardioNerds Correspondent ) and Dr. Shirlene Obuobi ( CardioNerds Ambassador ) from University of Chicago are honored to bring to you the Dr. Milton Packer perspective on the evolution of the neurohormonal hypothesis as part of The CardioNerds Heart Success Series. In part 3 Dr. Packer reflects on the value of neutral...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal ,  Daniel Ambinder ) and Dr. Mark Belkin , ( CardioNerds Correspondent ) and Dr. Shirlene Obuobi ( CardioNerds Ambassador ) from University of Chicago are honored to bring to you the Dr. Milton Packer perspective on the evolution of the neurohormonal hypothesis as part of The CardioNerds Heart Success Series. In part 2 Dr. Packer shares his journey as the traili...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal ,  Daniel Ambinder ) and Dr. Mark Belkin , ( CardioNerds Correspondent ) and Dr. Shirlene Obuobi ( CardioNerds Ambassador ) from University of Chicago are honored to bring to you the Dr. Milton Packer perspective on the evolution of the neurohormonal hypothesis as part of The CardioNerds Heart Success Series. In part 1 Dr. Packer discusses taking risks, upsettin...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ), ACHD series co-chair Dr. Agnes Koczo ( UPMC ), and ACHD FIT lead Dr. Katia Bravo ( UCLA ) join ACHD expert Dr. Carole Warnes (Professor of Medicine and founder of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic at Mayo Clinic ), to discuss adult congenial heart disease and pregnancy . They cover preconception counseling in women with congenital heart disea...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ) join Dr. Kushani Gajjar and Dr. Mitha Naik from the Allegheny Health Network for a walk along the Three Rivers Trail in Pittsburgh. They discuss a case of young woman in her third trimester of pregnancy with a known history of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The management of pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy and RV failure in the context of pregna...

CardioNerds   Dr. Rick Ferraro , Director of the  #CardsJC Journal Club  and cardiology fellow at  Johns Hopkins , and  Dr. Tommy Das , Program Director of the  CardioNerds Academy  and cardiology fellow at  Cleveland Clinic , learn all about the clinical application of the ASCVD primary and secondary prevention guidelines in terms of lifestyle mod...