Cardionerds: A Cardiology Podcast

The following question refers to Sections 3.3-3.4 of the 2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines. The question is asked by  student Dr. Adriana Mares , answered first by early career preventive cardiologist  Dr. Dipika Gopal , and then by expert faculty  Dr. Allison Bailey . Dr. Bailey is a cardiologist at Centennial Heart. She is the editor-in-chief of the American College of C...

The following question refers to Section 3.2 of the 2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines. The question is asked by student Dr.  Hirsh Elhence , answered first by Mayo Clinic Fellow  Dr. Teodora Donisan , and then by expert faculty  Dr. Eugene Yang . Dr. Yang is professor of medicine of the University of Washington where he is medical director of the Eastside Specialty Center and the co...

CardioNerds ( Dr. Kelly Arps , Dr. Colin Blumenthal , Dr. Dan Ambinder , and Dr. Teodora Donisan ) discuss the screening, detection, and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (AF) with Dr. Ben Freedman. AF is frequently undiagnosed and its first manifestation can be a debilitating stroke. European and American guidelines differ slightly with regards to guidelines for AF screening in asymptomatic indivi...

CardioNerds Tommy Das (Program Director of the CardioNerds Academy and cardiology fellow at Cleveland Clinic ), Rick Ferraro (cardiology fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital ), and Dr. Xiaoming Jia (Cardiology Fellow at Baylor College Medicine) take a closer look at the mechanism of icosapent ethyl in triglyceride lowering and ASCVD risk reduction with Dr. Michael Shapiro , the Fred M. Parrish pro...

CardioNerd  ( Amit Goyal ),   ACHD series  co-chair  Dr. Agnes Koczo  ( UPMC ), and episode FIT lead, Dr. Logan Eberly (Emory University, incoming ACHD fellow at Boston Adult Congenital Heart) join Dr. Peter Ermis (Program Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Texas Children’s Heart Center ), and Dr. Scott Cohen (Associate Professor and Director of the Adult Congenital He...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ), join   Dr. Gurleen Kaur  (Director of CardioNerds Internship and medicine resident at  Brigham and Women’s Hospital ),   Dr. Victoria Thomas  ( Cardionerds Ambassador, Vanderbilt University Medical Center ) Dr. Katie Berlacher (Cardiology program director, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ), and Dr. Julie Damp  (...

CardioNerds ( Amit and Dan ) join Dr. Omid Amidi ( CardioNerds Academy Graduate ) and Dr. Marwah Shahid from the UCLA Cardiology Fellowship program along with Dr. Evelyn Song (CardioNerds Academy House Faculty and Heart Failure Hospitalist at UCSF ) to discuss a complex case focused on management of severe coronary artery disease in a patient with Glanzmann thrombasthenia. Dr. Rushi Parikh (Interv...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ), Dr. Ahmed Ghoneem ( CardioNerds Academy Chief of House Taussig and medicine resident at Lahey Hospital ), and Dr. Gurleen Kaur (Director of CardioNerds Internship and medicine resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital ) discuss family history of premature ASCVD with Dr. Ann Marie Navar , Preventive Cardiologist and Associate Professor in the Departmen...

It’s another session of CardioNerds Rounds! In these rounds, Co-Chairs, Dr. Karan Desai and Dr. Natalie Stokes and Dr. Tiffany Dong (FIT at Cleveland Clinic ) joins Dr. Randall Starling (Professor of Medicine and Director of Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Cleveland Clinic) to discuss the nuances of guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) through real cases. As a past pres...

Atrial fibrillation may reach pandemic proportions in the next 2-3 decades. Factors that drive this phenomenon have been studied in predominantly White populations, leading to a significant underrepresentation of certain racial/ethnic groups in atrial fibrillation epidemiological studies. Most atrial fibrillation epidemiology studies suggest that the non-Hispanic Black population has a lower incid...

CardioNerds Tommy Das (Program Director of the CardioNerds Academy and cardiology fellow at Cleveland Clinic ), Rick Ferraro (cardiology fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital ), and Dr. Aliza Hussain (cardiology fellow at Baylor College Medicine ) take a deep dive on the REDUCE-IT trial with Dr. Peter Toth, director of preventive cardiology at the CGH medical center in Sterling, Illinois, clinical...

The following question refers to Section 4.11 of the  2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines . The question is asked by  Dr. Christian Faaborg-Andersen , answered first by UCSF resident  Dr. Jessie Holtzman , and then by expert faculty  Dr. Laurence Sperling . Dr. Laurence Sperling is the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine an...

The following question refers to Section 6.1 of the  2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines . The question is asked by  Dr. Christian Faaborg-Andersen , answered first by  UCSD  cardiology fellow  Dr. Harpreet Bhatia , and then by expert faculty  Dr. Eugenia Gianos . Dr. Gianos specializes in preventive cardiology, lipidology, cardiovascular imaging, and women’s heart...

The following question refers to Section 4.6 of the   2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines . The question is asked by  student Dr. Shivani Reddy , answered first by  NP Carol Patrick , and then by expert faculty Dr. Eileen Handberg . Dr. Handberg is an Adult Nurse Practitioner, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Program in the Division of Cardiova...

The following question refers to Section 4.3 of the  2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines . The question is asked by Dr. Maryam Barkhordarian , answered first by pharmacy resident Dr. Anushka Tandon, and then by expert faculty  Dr. Noreen Nazir . Dr. Noreen Nazir is Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago , where she is the director of cardiac...

This question refers to Sections 3.1 of the  2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines . The question is asked by CardioNerds Academy Intern, student Dr.  Hirsh Elhence , answered first by internal medicine resident at Beaumont Hospital and soon to be Mayo Clinic cardiology fellow and Dr. Teodora Donisan and then by expert faculty  Dr. Eugene Yang . Dr. Yang is professor of medicine of the  University of...

The following question refers to Section 3.4 of the 2021 ESC CV Prevention Guidelines. The question is asked by  student Dr. Adriana Mares , answered first by early career preventive cardiologist  Dr. Dipika Gopal , and then by expert faculty Dr. Michael Wesley Milks. Dr. Milks is a staff cardiologist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Ohio State University Wexner Medica...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal , Daniel Ambinder ) and special co-host Dr. Mark Belkin , join the Journal of Cardiac Failure Family to discuss the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for The Management of Heart Failure . The JCF Editor-In-Chief Dr. Robert Mentz, Deputy Editor Dr. Anu Lala , and FIT editors — Dr. Vanessa Bluemer , Dr. Ashish Corrhea , and Dr. Quinton Youmans — share their hot takes a...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder ) join Dr. Phoo Pwint Nandar (former FIT Ambassador ), Dr. Deep Shah (current FIT Ambassador ), and Dr. Sugat Wagle from the Summa Health Cardiology Department for an afternoon at Cuyahoga National Valley Park . We discuss a case of a post-partum woman who presented with ventricular fibrillation arrest due to SCAD. She had ongoing adva...

CardioNerds ( Daniel Ambinder ), ACHD series co-chairs,   Dr. Josh Saef  (ACHD fellow, University of Pennsylvania) Dr. Daniel Clark  (ACHD fellow, Vanderbilt University ), and ACHD FIT lead Dr. Jon Kochav ( Columbia University ) join Dr. Eric Krieger (Director of the Seattle Adult Congenital Heart Service and the ACHD Fellowship, University of Washington ) to discuss multimodality i...

CardioNerds ( Amit Goyal and Daniel Ambinder ), join Dr. Kara Denby (Interventional cardiology fellow, Cleveland Clinic ), Dr. Tony Pastor (ACHD fellow, Harvard Medical School ), Dr. Katie Berlacher (Cardiology program director, UPMC ), and Dr. Stephen Cook (ACHD cardiologist, Indiana University ) to discuss empowering the LGBTQIA+ community of cardiovascular patients & professionals and more...

CardioNerds  ( Amit Goyal  and  Daniel Ambinder ) join Dr. Sonu Abraham (Cardiology fellow, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center ), Dr. Amitoj Singh (Internal Medicine Resident, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center ), Dr. Ahmed Ghoneem (Internal Medicine Resident, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center , CardioNerds Academy Chief) and Dr. Aanika Balaji (Internal Medicine Resident, Johns Hopkins ) for a scrum...

The CardioNerds Academy Class of 2021 graduation ceremony kicked off the inaugural Sanjay V Desai Lecture: Growth Mindset, Power of Yet, & Pursuit of Mastery. Join us as Dr. Tommy Das (CardioNerds Academy Program Director), and Dr. Saman Nematollahi (CardioNerds Academy Director of Research) discuss Growth Mindset with Dr. Keri Shafer and Dr. David Hirsh . Terrific acting by Dr. Patrick Zakka...

CardioNerds, Amit Goyal , Dr. Tommy Das (Program Director of the CardioNerds Academy and Cardiology fellow at Cleveland Clinic ), Dr. Rick Ferraro (Director of CardioNerds Journal Club and Cardiology fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital ), Dr. Patrick Zakka ( CardioNerds Academy Chief fellow of House Jones and Cardiology fellow at UCLA ) discuss omega-3 fatty acids & the battle of the oils wit...

In this episode we discuss cardiogenic shock due to valvular heart disease. Join Dr. Pranoti Hiremath (Interventional cardiology fellow, Johns Hopkins ), Dr. Karan Desai (CN Critical Care Series Co-Chair, Cardiology fellow, University of Maryland ), Dr. Yoav Karpenshif (CN Critical Care Series Co-Chair, Chief cardiology fellow, University of Pennsylvania ), and Amit Goyal ( CardioNerds Co-Founder)...