Cardiology

Fellowship Program Director
James C. Lafferty, MD - Associate Director of Cardiology

Key Clinical Faculty
Soad Bekheit, MD - Director of Electrophysiology
Thomas Costantino, MD - Director of Cardiology
Foad Ghavami, MD
Marcin Kowalski, MD
James Malpeso, MD - Director of Catheterization Lab
Donald A McCord, MD - Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Yefim Olkovsky, MD
Charles Schwartz, MD - Director of Echocardiography
Stavros T. Snyder, MD
Frank V. Tamburrino, MD

• Grants: 
  
  
  • Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program
    2008-2010 New York State Department of Health 
    "High Fiber Diet and Coronary Artery Disease" 
    PI: S. El Sayegh, MD 
    Co-Investigator: James C. Lafferty, MD 
    Award: $120,000
    
    
  • Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program
    2010-2011 
    New York State Department of Health 
    "Understanding the Molecular Basis of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Uremic Cardiomyopathy" 
    PI: S. El Sayegh, MD 
    Co-Investigator: James C. Lafferty, MD 
    Award: $220,000

• Invited Presentations:
  
  

  • Maarouf O, Waked A, Geara A, Khoueiry G, AbiRached J, Ayoub I, Terjanian T, Lafferty J, Dunne E, Smith M, El Sayegh S. An analysis of the diet of hemodialysis patients during a dialysis specific FFQ. - Presented at the New York American College of Physicians' Upstate Scientific Meeting on April 10, 2010.

  • Geara A, Daoud J, AbouRjeily G, Torbey E, Waked A, AbiRafeh N, Terjanian T, Lafferty J, El Sayegh S. Aspirin resistance in hemodialysis patients. - Poster presentation ASN Renal Week 2009, 10/30/09, San Diego, CA.

• Publications:
  
  

  • Abourjaili G, Shtaynberg N, Wetz R, Costantino T, Abela GS. Current Concepts in triglyceride metabolism, pathophysiology, and treatment. Metabolism 2010 Aug;59(8):1210-20. Epub 2010 Jan 8.
    
    

  • Khoueiry G, Galende E, Karakikes I, Edelmann L, Desnick R, Kereny T, Lafferty J. Amniotic fluid cells are more efficiently programmed to pluripotency than adult cells . Cloning and Stem Cells, Vol. 12;No.00,2010. Doi: 10.1089/clo.2009.0077.
    
    
  • Khoueiry G, Flory M., Abi Rafeh N, Zgheib MH, Goldman M, Abdallah T, Wettimuny S, Telesford B, Costantino T, McGinn JT. Depression, disability, and quality of life after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: A prospective 9-month follow-up study. Heart Lung. 2010 May 20.
    
    
  • Zgheib MH, Buchbinder SS, Abi Rafeh N, Elya M, Raia C, Ahern K, Smith MC, Costantino T, Flory MJ, Lafferty JC, Castellanos MR. Breast arterial calcifications on mammograms do not predict coronary heart disease at coronary angiography. Radiology. 2010 Feb;254(2):367-73.
    
    
  • Nagrani T, Zaher M, Gaddam S, Jabbour G, Baldari D, Baglini R, Duvvuri S. In-stent thrombosis after 68 months of implantation inspite of continuous dual antiplatelet therapy: a case report. Cases Journal 2010 Feb 23;3:68.
    
    
  • Rizvi S, Kamran H, Salciccioli L, Saiful F, Lafferty J, Lazar JM. Relation of the ankle brachial index to left ventricular ejection fraction. Am J Cardiol. 2010 Jan 1;105(1):129-32. Epub 2009 Nov 18.
    
    
  • Abi Rafeh N, Abi-Fadel D, Wetz RV, Khoueiry G, Azab B, Edwards A, Ardolic B, El-Sayegh S, Baldari D, Malpeso JV, Costantino T. A STEMI code protocol improves door-to-balloon time on weekdays and weekends.  J Healthc Quality 2009 Nov/Dec;31(6):35-43.
    
    
  • Galende E, Karakikes I, Edelmann L, Desnick RJ, Kerenyi T, Khoueiry G, Lafferty J, McGinn JT, Brodman M. Fuster V, Hajjar RJ, Polgar K. Amniotic fluid cells are more efficiently reprogrammed to pluripotency than adult cells. Cloning Stem Cells. 2009 Dec 17.
    
    
  • De C, Zaher M, Lakhani M, McGinn JT, Baglini R, Baldari D. A planned hybrid culotte stenting procedure in the setting of an acute STEMI. Cases Journal 2009 Nov;27;2:9104.
    
    
  • Pothula VR, Waked A, Sadel SM, McGinn JT jr, Cai J, Baldari D. Prosthetic aortic valve abscess producing intermittent right coronary artery compression. Ann Thorac Surg. 2009 Mar;87(3):963.
    
    
  • Nagrani T, Neuman T, Baldari D, Zaher M, Lafferty J, Baglini R, Kasabian A. Tamponade following breast augmentation. Ann Plast Surg. 2010 Feb;64(2):141-3.