Amir Esmaeeli - Faculty Biosketch

Amir Esmaeeli, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

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Department: Medicine

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Penn Heart and Vascular Center Perelman
2d Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
53 3400 Civic Center Blvd, 2nd Floor, East Pavilion
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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13 Education:
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2e Washington University, 2011.
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41 Washington University School of Medicine, 2015.
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 3a Clinical Research Assistant , Washington University, 79 TL1 NIH clinical research on heart transplant outcomes in Fontan patients with liver cirrhosis, 2012-2012.
24 6b Internal Medicine Internship & Residency, Emory University School of Medicine, 2015-2018.
24 7b Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health , 2021-2024.
24 68 Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 2024-2025.
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17 Certifications
28 3b Diplomate, Internal Medicine, ABIM, 2018.
28 45 Testamur, National Board of Echocardiography, 2023.
28 6c Testamur, Certification Board of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, COCATS Level II, 2024.
28 41 Diplomate, Cardiovascular Disease, ABIM , 2024.
28 58 Diplomate, National Board of Echocardiography, COCATS Level III, 2024.
28 56 Cardiac Computed Tomography, COCATS Level II, Board Eligible , 2024.
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Description of Research Expertise

97 May-July 2012 Clinical Research Assistant, TL1 NIH grant, Research on heart transplant outcomes in Fontan patients with liver cirrhosis
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Selected Publications

17b El Shaer A, Garcia-Arango M, Abed A, Heffernan S, Wang Y, Javed T, Esmaeeli A, Arif AW, Tao R, Dharmavaram N, Runo J, Barnes JN, Raza F.: Breaking down the recovery of O(2) pathway: Peripheral extraction recovery pattern defines exercise capacity and clinical outcomes. Physiol Rep 13(7): e70337, APR 2025.

16e Authors: Amirhossein Esmaeeli, MD , Prashant Nagpal, MD , Jefree J. Schulte, MD , Sofia C. Masri, MD , and Peter S. Rahko, MD: Systemic Emboli and Biventricular Hypertrophy Due to Glycogen Storage Disease: Clinical, Imaging, and Pathologic Predicament. AIM Clinical Cases 2(11): 1-5, NOV 2023.

119 Dharmavaram N, Esmaeeli A, Jacobson K, Brailovsky Y, Raza F. : Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing, Rehabilitation, and Exercise Training in Postpulmonary Embolism. Interv Cardiol Clin. 12(3): 349-365, JUL 2023.

168 Husaini M, Esmaeeli A, Thangam M, Doering M, Brown DL.: Synthesis of systematic reviews of percutaneous device closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) for prevention of recurrent cryptogenic stroke: redundant publications and methodological deficiencies. Am Heart J.(232), 57-60, FEB 2021.

e8 Esmaeeli A, Southmayd G.: Neuropsychiatric lupus: uncovering the great medical masquerader. Ochsner J. 17(1): e1–e82, SPRING 2017 Notes: 17th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine c Conference 15 October 13-15, 2016 35 Ochsner Clinic Foundation / Emory University School d of Medicine 24 New Orleans, LA.

189 Heinl RE, Dhindsa DS, Mahlof EN, Schultz WM, Ricketts JC, Varghese T, Esmaeeli A, Allard-Ratick MP, Millard AJ, Kelli HM, Sandesara PB, Eapen DJ, Sperling L.: Comprehensive Cardiovascular Risk Reduction and Cardiac Rehabilitation in Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome. Can J Cardiol 32(10 Suppl 2): S349-S357, OCT 2016.

11d White KS, Pardue C, Ludbrook P, Sodhi S, Esmaeeli A, Cedars A.: Cardiac Denial and Psychological Predictors of Cardiac Care Adherence in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease. Behav Modif 40(1-2): 20-50, JAN 2016.

f7 Non LR, Patel R, Esmaeeli A, Despotovic V.: Typhoid Fever Complicated by Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis and Rhabdomyolysis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 93(5): 1068-1069, AUG 2015.

144 Simpson KE, Esmaeeli A, Khanna G, White F, Yumirle T, Pirooz E, Umar B, Canter C: Liver cirrhosis in Fontan patients does not affect 1-year post-heart transplant mortality or markers of liver function. J Heart Lung Transplant 33(2): 170-177, OCT 2013.

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