Satish Kenchaiah, MD, MPH, FACC

Instructor in Medicine

EDUCATION:

Medical School

Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Graduate School

Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

GENERAL FIELD OF WORK:

Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, and Advanced Cardiac Imaging

CURRENT POSITIONS:

Cardiovascular Epidemiologist

Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Attending Cardiologist

Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

Investigator

Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
Physicians’ Health Study, Boston, MA
Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Baltimore, MD

POST DOCTORAL TRAINING:

Clinical Residency in Internal Medicine

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Cornell University Medical College, Bronx, NY

Research Fellowship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology

Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA

Clinical and Research Fellowship in Preventive Cardiology

VA Boston Healthcare System
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Clinical Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases

University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA

Clinical Fellowship in Advanced Cardiac Imaging

Duke Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center
Duke University Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

CERTIFICATIONS:

Diplomate, Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography

National Board of Echocardiography, Philadelphia, PA

Diplomate, Cardiovascular Disease

American Board of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Diplomate, Internal Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

LICENSURE:

Permanent Medical License

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, Wakefield, MA

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Mailing Address:

Boston Medical Center
88 East Newton Street
Cardiology, C-818
Boston, MA. 02118-2393

Email:

satishk@bu.edu

KEYWORDS:

Cardiac Computed Tomography, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Echocardiography, Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction, Obesity

SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC INTERESTS:

My major research interest is in the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases.

Heart failure – risk factors for heart failure, prognostic indicators after the onset of heart failure, and trends in incidence of and survival with heart failure.

Myocardial infarction – influence of hypertension on cardiac remodeling and adverse clinical outcomes in patients with myocardial infarction.

Advanced Cardiac Imaging – compare and contrast the applications and benefits of various modalities of noninvasive cardiac imaging (echocardiography, cardiovascular magnetic resonance, cardiac computed tomography, and nuclear cardiology).

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Kenchaiah S, Benjamin EJ, Evans JC, Aragam J, Vasan RS.  Epidemiology of left ventricular false tendons: clinical correlates in the Framingham Heart Study.  J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2009 Jun;22(6):739-45. Epub 2009 May 7. PMID: 19423290

Kenchaiah S, Sesso HD, Gaziano JM.  Body-mass index and vigorous physical activity and the risk of heart failure in men.  Circulation. 2009 Jan 6;119(1):44-52. Epub 2008 Dec 22. PMID: 19103991

Kenchaiah S, Barnes MJ, Nambudripad R, Naemi K, Tobias S.  Images in cardiovascular medicine. Rotating fibrocalcific cast after infected pacemaker lead extraction.  Circulation. 2008 May 20;117(20):e338-9 PMID: 18490528

Kenchaiah S, Pocock SJ, Wang D, Finn PV, Zornoff LAM, Skali H, Pfeffer MA, Yusuf S, Swedberg K, Michelson, EL Granger CB, McMurray JJV, Solomon SD. Body Mass Index and Prognosis in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure – Insights from the Candesartan in Heart failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) Program. Circulation. 2007 Aug 7;116(6):627-36. Epub 2007 Jul 16. Erratum in: Circulation 2007 Aug 7;116(6);e136. PMID: 17638930

Kenchaiah S, Davis BR, Braunwald E, Rouleau JL, Dagenais GR, Sussex B, Steingart RM, Brown EJ Jr, Lamas GA, Gordon D, Bernstein V, Pfeffer MA. Antecedent hypertension and the effect of captopril on the risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes after acute myocardial infarction with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: Insights from the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement Trial. Am Heart J. 2004 Aug;148(2):356-64. PMID: 15309009

Kenchaiah S, Pfeffer MA, St. John Sutton M, Plappert T, Rouleau J, Lamas GA, Sasson Z, Parker JO, Geltman EM, Solomon SD. Effect of antecedent systemic hypertension on subsequent left ventricular dilation after acute myocardial infarction (from the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement trial). Am J Cardiol. 2004 Jul 1;94(1):1-8. PMID: 15219499

Levy D, Kenchaiah S, Larson MG, Benjamin EJ, Kupka MJ, Ho KKL, Murabito JM, Vasan RS. Long-term trends in the incidence of and survival with heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2002 Oct 31;347(18):1397-1402. PMID: 12409541

Kenchaiah S, Evans JC, Levy D, Wilson PW, Benjamin EJ, Larson MG, Kannel WB, Vasan RS. Obesity and the risk of heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2002 Aug 1;347(5):305-13. PMID: 12151467

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