James Youssef

🎉Congratulations to @dr_sapurva & @Mohammad9511302 for 🎓 from #FunctionNotFailure fellowship @MountSinaiHeart 🙌🏽 Now 🚀interventional 🫀 bound to join the 💪🏽 force of HF-INV trained specialists in 1 year!! @HMHNewJersey & @TuftsMedicalCtr @NavinKapur4 🙏🏽 for your hard work @IcahnMountSinai @DLBHATTMD @spinneymd @DonnaMancini11

Beautiful event @IcahnMountSinai & @MountSinaiHeart celebrating @DLBHATTMD being named the #ValentinFuster endowed chair & professor, as well as one of my earliest mentors @spinneymd! Congratulations! Lucky to be under your leadership 🙏🏽🫀

Terrific poster (Off-Pump Less Invasive HM 3) by Dr. Ariana Goodman, CT Surgery Resident @URochesterSurg Second picture with her mentors Dr. Igor Gosev @igor_igorgosev and Dr. Katherine Wood @kwood_md #ISHLT2023 @URMed_AHF

@shahrukh_bakar @EiranGorodeski @TheNRMP @AndrewJSauer @preventfailure @Abraham_Jacob @ajaysmd @AHajduczok @HFSA @KevinShahMD Working part time at a LVAD/OHT center to keep your skills sharp while focusing on outpatient HF care in outreach areas can be an option for some. Many advanced HF patients do not get referred or are referred too late. We all know the data regarding GDMT optimization as well.

@EiranGorodeski @TheNRMP @AndrewJSauer @preventfailure @Abraham_Jacob @ajaysmd @AHajduczok @HFSA @KevinShahMD I see probably 50% of my clinic load is HF in one form or another as an interventionalist working in community practice. Pretty sure I don’t need to know how to list patients for transplant if I’m working in a non-transplant centre since I will be referring for LVAD/TXP anyway.

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology: What happened in the 2023 Match? @TheNRMP More programs than ever (n=73; n=127 positions offered) want to train advanced HF specialists, but the interest is flat (n=71 positions filled). A small number (n=28) of large fairly homogeneous programs will train heart transplant specialists. These future graduates will look for jobs in similar large homogenous hospital systems, many of which are already saturated and have no positions to offer. Some will be frustrated when they don't get this type of job. My hope instead is that HF graduates look beyond and recognize that there are n=6500 hospitals in the United States, and many are desperate to hire visionary leaders and HF program builders. Here is my plea: Please be brave and take those real-world jobs. Millions of patients with HF will never meet a specialist HF cardiologist. nrmp.org/about/news/202…

A must-watch story of a mother recovering from life-saving kidney 𝑎𝑛𝑑 heart transplant surgeries. To save her life, it took a massive and coordinated effort from staff at Strong Memorial Hospital. #DonateLife

Amazing story of a woman who recieved two transplants recently! Kudos to our kidney and heart teams and all involved! @URMed_AHF @hernandezliver @igor_igorgosev @kwood_md @kareninaqx Read here ⏬ bit.ly/3KhCUSX

@preventfailure Anonymous attendee for the win.

@preventfailure Agree with Srihari. There are also many centers that have a robust cath and structural lab and not a robust advanced HF presence. These discussions should be multidisciplinary. Often they are not for many reasons.

@A_Khan_QRS @cshenoy3 @MasriAhmadMD @mgwfriedrich Agree with the rest. We routinely exclude unless suspicion is high for an acute inflammatory episode. Very low yield otherwise.

Thoughts on the utility of routine T2 blackblood STIR/DIR short axis stack in a CMR cardiomyopathy protocol? Have you ever diagnosed something on this that wasnt on LGE? I feel the yield isn't great and tires out the pt by the time for LGE. @cshenoy3 @MasriAhmadMD @mgwfriedrich

Durable #LVAD use ~30%⬇️ in new vs old 🫀allocation era, with similar waitlist results in patients bridged w/HM3. Predictors of post-tx mortality: old age, ischemic HF, ⬇️functional status, ⬆️creatinine, pulmonary HTN, obesity @VeliKTopkaraMD @NirUrielMD 🔗jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

@EMthomasMed @HamlinIsland @BuffaloBills @UR_Med @URMed_AHF The best in the business.

Our team in support of #communitycpr @HamlinIsland @BuffaloBills #cprsaves @UR_Med @URMed_AHF

@AG_EM33 That’s the answer you give med students when you don’t know the answer to their question. Another favorite is ah great question, why don’t you look it up and give us a talk on it.

As a med student, I once asked a CT surgeon about how a patient with mitral valve prolapse usually presents and his answer was, “They’re interesting. You’ll just know.” and I always wonder about that…

New data just presented at ESC, 5 year outcomes from MOMENTUM-3. The HeartMate 3 is an excellent long-term therapy for patients living with end-stage HF with ~ 60% survival at 5 years @MRMehraMD @shelleyhallmd @preventfailure

Last month, doctors conducted the 300th heart transplant in their program that began in 2001. bit.ly/3o8c43M

Great job @igor_igorgosev, @kwood_md and team! Check out the story about "Caring Buffalo nurse receives new heart, second chance". @URMCSurgery @URMed_AHF bit.ly/3RuLAac

Proud to be a part of this beautiful story on the gift of life! #organdonation @UNOSNews @DonateLifeNYS @igor_igorgosev @kwood_md @Jyossef @URochesterSurg @himavidula @SabuThomasMD

Just getting started on road to recovery at VAD journal club! @StavrosDrakos

#ASAIO2022 Strong work by @JeffreyAlexis4 @himavidula @LuckyLisa77 Janine Rumora, Brianna Sittler representing #VAD, #AHF, #erasurvad

Our own Dr. Katherine Wood on the stage for “Friendly Feud” representing cardiac surgeons AND representing women in Advanced Heart Failure field! #roc

Unique celebration today @UR_Med. Our 2013 #HM2 humbly asked if team would arrange meeting with implanting surgeon Todd Massey for 90th bday, 9 yrs on Hm2 support. #htm, @EugeneStorozyn6 delivered! Phot shared w/permission.🎂🎉🥳🎁