Sammy Elmariah MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
150 S Huntington Avenue | (617) 726-6120sammy.elmariah@baiminstitute.org
selmariah@mgh.harvard.edu
Sections
Cardiovascular Medicine
Biography
Dr. Elmariah graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently served as Chief Medical Resident at Lankenau Hospital. Dr. Elmariah completed his fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York where he also served as Chief Fellow. While a fellow, he also completed a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Elmariah completed further fellowship training in interventional cardiology and structural heart disease at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
His clinical interest is in the management of valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, and adult congenital heart disease. He performs transcatheter valve replacement, percutaneous coronary interventions (stents), and transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defects (ASD).
Dr. Elmariah has a specific research interest in valvular heart disease. In addition to ongoing clinical investigation of valve calcification and the progression of aortic stenosis, Dr. Elmariah is evaluating the impact of transcatheter aortic valve replacement on myocardial metabolism and myocardial remodeling. Dr. Elmariah is an MGH Heart Center Hassenfeld Research Scholar and has been awarded the Jeremiah Stamler Distinguished Young Investigator Award and an American College of Cardiology Young Investigator Award.
Education
Medicine-Internal, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Clinical Research, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Biology, BS, Emory University
Publications
Kany S, Rämö JT, Playford D, Strange G, Hou C, Jurgens SJ, Nauffal V, Cunningham JW, Lau ES, Butte AJ, Ho JE, Olgin JE, Elmariah S, Lindsay ME, Chan YK, Stewart S, Ellinor PT, Pirruccello JP. New Threshold for Defining Mild Aortic Stenosis Derived From Velocity-Encoded MRI in 60,000 Individuals. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Apr 08; 85(13):1387-1399. PMID: 40175013.
Published on 3/30/2025Tanguturi VK, Abou-Karam R, Cheng F, Duan R, Inglessis I, Langer N, Yucel E, Passeri J, Hung J, Elmariah S. Electronic Provider Notification to Facilitate the Recognition and Management of Severe Aortic Stenosis: a Randomized Clinical Trial. Circulation. 2025 Mar 30. PMID: 40159132.
Published on 3/19/2025Kolte D, Marquis-Gravel G, Stebbins A, Vekstein AM, Vemulapalli S, Elmariah S. Temporal Trends in 1-Year Cause-Specific Mortality After TAVR: Insights From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 Apr 28; 18(8):1013-1024. PMID: 40117414.
Published on 2/25/2025Bansal K, Rawlley B, Majmundar V, Beale R, Shah M, Kosinski AS, Gupta T, Gilani F, Anwaruddin S, Khera S, Vemulapalli S, Elmariah S, Kolte D. Out-of-Hospital 30-Day Mortality After Mitral TEER: Insights From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 Apr 14; 18(7):882-894. PMID: 40117403.
Published on 1/9/2025Vedantam K, Torres CA, Elmariah S, Villablanca P, Goessl M, Zajarias A, Leon MB, Beohar N. Racial Disparities Among Patients Undergoing Balloon-Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv. 2025 Feb; 4(2):102495. PMID: 40109708.
Published on 12/18/2024Sepucha K, Elmariah S, Valentine KD, Cavender MA, Chang Y, Devireddy CM, Dickert NW, Gama KD, Knoepke CE, Korngold E, Kumbhani DJ, Matlock DD, Messenger JC, Strong S, Thourani VH, Nathan A, Quader N, Brescia AA. The IMproving treatment decisions for Patients with AortiC stenosis Through Shared Decision Making (IMPACT SDM) Study: study protocol for a cluster randomized stepped wedge trial. Trials. 2024 Dec 18; 25(1):820. PMID: 39696639.
Published on 11/27/2024Reddy KP, Shultz K, Eberly LA, Khatana SAM, Fanaroff AC, Kumbhani DJ, Elmariah S, Fiorilli P, Herrmann H, Desai ND, Atluri P, Szeto WY, McCarthy F, Cohen DJ, Groeneveld PW, Giri J, Nathan AS. Contribution margins and utilization of transcatheter aortic valve replacement versus surgical aortic valve replacement in the Medicare population. Am Heart J. 2025 Mar; 281:59-70. PMID: 39613171.
Published on 11/18/2024Shimoda TM, Ueyama HA, Miyamoto Y, Watanabe A, Gotanda H, Kolte D, Latib A, Kaneko T, Zajarias A, Elmariah S, Takayama H, Tsugawa Y, Kuno T. Comparison of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Tricuspid Repair Among Patients With Tricuspid Regurgitation: Two-Year Results. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 Jan; 18(1):e014825. PMID: 39556351.
Published on 10/28/2024Shimoda TM, Ueyama HA, Miyamoto Y, Watanabe A, Gotanda H, Elmariah S, Yokoyama Y, Fukuhara S, Kaneko T, Kuno T, Tsugawa Y. Outcomes of isolated tricuspid replacement versus repair among older patients with tricuspid regurgitation in the United States. JTCVS Open. 2025 Apr; 24:127-146. PMID: 40309683.
Published on 10/28/2024Van Mieghem NM, Elmariah S, Spitzer E, Pibarot P, Nazif TM, Bax JJ, Hahn RT, Popma A, Ben-Yehuda O, Kallel F, Redfors B, Chuang ML, Alu MC, Lindeboom W, Kolte D, Zahr FE, Kodali SK, Strote JA, Hermanides RS, Cohen DJ, Tijssen JGP, Leon MB. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Systolic Heart Failure and Moderate Aortic Stenosis: TAVR UNLOAD. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Mar 11; 85(9):878-890. PMID: 39480381.