👏 Huge shoutout to Christos P. Kyriakopoulos for being recognized with an award for his exceptional contribution to our project! 🌟 Your talent and commitment never fail to inspire. Here's to many more successes together! 🎉
Stavros George Drakos

McHale Anderson following up asking if AMI patients vasodilate more, and if this explains increased mortality. The answer? Yes. Accounts for nearly 50% of the increased mortality in a mediation analysis. Important findings. Mechanism?? #ISHLT2024 Stavros George Drakos James Fang

U-CARS 2025 SAVE the DATE! February 20-21, 2025
Stavros George Drakos Josef Stehlik Robin Shaw, MD, PhD UofU Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI Line Kemeyou James Fang Manreet Kanwar Thomas Hanff, MD MSCE Joseph Tonna Palak Shah Dipayan Chaudhuri
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1/. Ten projects from “VAD WEAN” Cardiac Recovery Registry (50 sites worldwide, >600 HF pts) being presented @ #ISHLT2024 . Exciting results:
⁃Long-term “Survival Free of VAD/Tx post-VAD weaning” equivalent to propensity matched “ISHLT Registry post-Transplant Survival”

Stavros George Drakos presents compelling data on personalized tool for predicting myocardial recovery; defining partial recovery and incentivizing clinicians and programs for promoting myocardial recovery The ISHLT #ishlt2024

Proud of our IM resident Christos P. Kyriakopoulos presenting 2 abstracts on characteristics associated with successful outcomes for ADHF-CS patients and CS transfers

#ACC24

Joseph Taleb Konstantinos Sideris Rana Hamouche
Caroline Milne Thomas Hanff, MD MSCE Utah IM CMRs @UofCV UofU CT Surgery

Wonderful talk by Stavros George Drakos at the BCM_CVRI followed by a great chat at TCH Heart Center So much to learn from him - but what I LOVED the most - was how he promoted the work/and constantly gave credit to all of the trainees and post-docs he mentors

Amazing work out of Neil Chi’s lab UC San Diego Cardiology UCSD Cardio-Labs UC San Diego Cardiology Fellows

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Excited about this paper - but only if we can walk the walk after talking the talk! Need to collaborate, open the doors to our shops, & share/vet best practices, team dynamics, strategies. Hoping for a think-tank conference soon… CCCEnthusiasts BalimSenman Stavros George Drakos

#HSS24
Curious about the future of shock? Dive into an intriguing HoustonShock session led by Jason N. Katz for insights and discoveries.

Register for free at houstonshock.org

See you in March!

#Cardiotwitter #ACCFIT

Im always asked: how do you guys run your #shock team UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann . Excited to hear Stavros George Drakos this March HoustonShock

Incredibly proud of our work studying cardiac allograft vasculopathy in DCD heart transplant patients. UC San Diego Cardiology Dr VICTOR PRETORIUS Eric Adler Quan Bui Marcus Anthony Urey MD Mark Kearns

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Congratulations to first year fellow Joseph Taleb on his new publication JAMA Cardiology!

UC San Diego Cardiology Fellows UC San Diego Health UC San Diego HealthSci

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Overjoyed to share our publication-truly a labor of love by an amazing team! 🚀📚 Gratitude to everyone who poured their passion and dedication into this project. Excited for the impact our research will make-a journey driven by the patients, for the patients!!

#UCARS24
Submit your abstracts by Dec 20!

Agenda: medicine.utah.edu/internal-medic…

Interact with leading experts: Eric N. Olson Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, MSc, FRCP (London) Hesham Sadek Demetris Yannopoulos Manreet Kanwar Navin Kapur David Baran Torsten Doenst Richa Agarwal Yaron Barac Angie Lorts Nir Uriel, MD MSc

Thanks for stepping up Konstantinos Sideris and representing us so exceptionally! Lucky to have friends like you who not only understand the importance of the opportunity but also take it to the next level with such finesse! I could not be prouder Christos P. Kyriakopoulos Theo Giannouchos

Excellent work presented by the team in Hannover at #EUMS2023 ! Congratulations! Jan D. Schmitto Manreet Kanwar Palak Shah Christos P. Kyriakopoulos Aditi Nayak Josef Stehlik Omar Wever-Pinzon Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, MSc, FRCP (London) Ryan J Tedford MD 15th European Mechanical Support Summit Jennifer Hajj, RN Alexander Hajduczok, MD 🇺🇦🙏 Angela Washenko, RN Marisca Nelson

Couldn't get better news today... my K08 was awarded by NIH NHLBI !
Thank you Drs Stavros George Drakos and Scott Summers for your support. Thank you UofU Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI and Rana Hamouche

Congratulations to Dr. Anu Shankar on her Ph.D. #graduation last month! Best wishes as you enter this next phase of your adventure ❤️

Thirupura Shankar
Stavros George Drakos

#hearthealth #cardiovascular #research #cardiovascular research #cardiovascular health #heartdisease #utah

Our fellow Christos P. Kyriakopoulos presenting INTERMACS data indicating that the risk of pump thrombosis is lower in patients that improve their cardiac function during LVAD support
#ISHLT2023 University of Utah Health UofU Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI Caroline Milne Utah IM CMRs Joseph Taleb Thomas Hanff, MD MSCE Josef Stehlik