Akshay Desai

Akshay S Desai

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, US

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Biography

Prof Akshay Desai is a cardiovascular medicine specialist and the director of the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr Desai’s research focuses on improving care and outcomes for HF patients, as well as strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions. 

Prof Desai received his medical degree from HMS. He completed an internal medicine residency as well as fellowships in cardiovascular medicine, vascular medicine and advanced heart disease at BWH. He is board certified in and cardiovascular disease, as well as advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.

His clinical interests include advanced heart failure, cardiomyopathies (myocarditis, amyloidosis, sarcoidosis), congenital heart disease and cardiac transplantation. His research has received support from the American College of Cardiology and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

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Media

HFSA 24: FINEARTS-HF Across the Ejection Fraction Spectrum

Akshay S Desai

Watch time: 6m 45s
ACC.24: Zilbesiran in Patients With Hypertension: KARDIA-2

Akshay S Desai

Watch time: 7m 49s

Akshay S Desai, Jeyamalar Rajadurai

Watch time: 45m 50s (3 videos)

Akshay S Desai, Jeyamalar Rajadurai

Watch time: 45m 31s

James L Januzzi, Akshay S Desai, Andrew JS Coats, et al

Watch time: 1h 46m 38s (7 videos)

Carolyn Lam, Wan Azman Wan Ahmad, Azmee Mohd Ghazi, et al

Watch time: 1h 44m 7s (8 videos)
AHA 2019 : SGLT2 Inhibitors In Heart Failure

Akshay S Desai, Carolyn Lam

Watch time: 14m 57s

Uwe Zeymer, Andrew JS Coats, Scott Solomon, et al

Watch time: 49m 31s (8 videos)
ESC 2019: EVALUATE-HF - In review

Akshay S Desai

Watch time: 8m 25s

Articles by Akshay S Desai

Cardiac Sarcoidosis: When and How to Treat Inflammation

Gerard T Giblin, Laura Murphy, Garrick C Stewart, et al

Published:

Citation: Cardiac Failure Review 2021;7:e17.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15420/cfr.2021.16