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Amit Iyengar, MD, MSE

Amit Iyengar
Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles Undergraduate: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

About Dr. Iyengar

Dr. Iyengar is a PGY5 Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident. His research interests are in heart & lung transplant outcomes and ex-vivo organ perfusion. He plans to pursue a career in academic cardiac surgery.

Education

2013 - 2014
Biomedical Engineering (M.S.E)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Societies

2015 - present
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

Awards

2017
ISHLT Annual Scientific Meeting Travel Grant
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

2016
ISHLT Annual Scientific Meeting Travel Grant
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

2015
Viola G. Hyde Scholarship Fund Research Award
Women in Surgery Interest Group, UCLA

2015
Center for Translational Science Institute’s TL1 Fellowship
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
NIH/NCATS Grant Number: UL1TR000124

2014 - 2018
David Geffen Medical Scholarship
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Publications

  1. Scipione CN, Schewe RE, Koch KL, Shaffer AW, Iyengar A, Cook KE. Use of a low-resistance compliant thoracic artificial lung in the pulmonary artery to pulmonary artery configuration. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; 145(6): 1660-6.
  2. Iyengar A, Scipione CN, Sheth PS, Ohye RG, Riegger L, Bove EL, Devaney EJ, Hirsch-Romano JC. Association of complications with blood transfusions in pediatric cardiac surgery patients. Ann Thorac Surg 2013; 96(3): 910-6.
  3. Demos DS, Iyengar A, Bryner BS, Gray BW, Hoffman HR, Cornell MS, Wilkerson JE, Mazur DE, Bartlett RH, Punch JD, Rojas-Peña A. Successful porcine renal transplantation after 60 minutes of donor warm ischemia: extracorporeal perfusion and thrombolytics. ASAIO J 2015; 61(4): 474-9.
  4. Spinelli E, Davis RP, Ren X, Sheth PS, Tooley TR, Iyengar A, Sowell B, Owens GE, Bocks ML, Jacobs TL, Yang LJ, Stacey WC, Bartlett RH, Rojas-Peña A, Neumar RW. Thrombolytic-enhanced extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation after prolonged cardiac arrest. Crit Care Med 2016; 44: e58-69.
  5. Biniwale R, Ross D, Iyengar A, Kwon OJ, Hunter C, Aboulhosn J, Gjertson D, Ardehali A. Lung transplantation and concomitant cardiac surgery: is it justified? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2016; 151: 560-567.
  6. Iyengar A, Zhu A, Samson J, Reemtsen B, Biniwale R. Childhood obesity and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: special considerations for successful outcomes. J Pediatr Intensive Care 2017; 6: 109-116.
  7. Trahanas JM, Witer LJ, Alghanem F, Bryner BS, Iyengar A, Hirschl JR, Hoenerhoff MJ, Potkay J, Bartlett RH, Rojas-Peña A, Owens GE, Bocks ML. Achieving twelve hour normothermic ex-situ heart perfusion: an experience of forty porcine hearts. ASAIO J 2016; 62: 470-476.
  8. Ashfaq A, Zhu A, Iyengar A, Wu H, Humphries R, McKinnell J, Shemin RJ, Benharash P. Impact of an institutional antibiotic stewardship program on bacteriology of surgical site infections. J Card Surg 2016; 31: 367-72.
  9. Goel AN, Iyengar A, Schowengerdt KO, Fiore AC, Huddleston CB. Heart transplantation in children with intellectual disability: an analysis of the UNOS database. Pediatr Transplant 2017; 21. doi: 10.1111/petr.12858.
  10. Iyengar A, Hung ML, Asanad K, Kwon OJ, Jackson NJ, Reemtsen BL, Federman MD, Biniwale RM. Association between hematologic and inflammatory markers and 31 thrombotic and hemorrhagic events in Berlin Heart Excor Patients. Pediatr Cardiol 2017; 38: 770-7.
  11. Iyengar A, Kwon OJ, Tamrat M, Salimbangon A, Satou N, Benharash P, Ardehali A, Shemin RJ, Kwon MH. The in-hospital cost of ventricular assist device therapy: implications for patient selection. ASAIO J 2017; 63: 725-30.
  12. Ashfaq A, Iyengar A, Kwon OJ, Soroya MS, Nguyen S, Ou R, Reemtsen BL. Efficacy of an extracellular matrix in systemic loading conditions in congenital heart surgery. Pediatr Cardiol 2017; 38: 1337-41.
  13. Skoog DJ, Pohlmann JR, Demos DS, Scipione CN, Iyengar A, Schewe RE, Suhaib AB, Koch KL, Cook KE. 14 day in vivo testing of a compliant thoracic artificial lung (cTAL). ASAIO J 2017; 63: 644-9.Iyengar A, Kwon OJ, Gjertson D, Tamrat M, Satou RN, Shemin RJ, Benharash P, Kwon MH. Aspiration pneumonia in cardiac surgery: a predictive model. Cardiovascular Thoracic Surg 2017; 2: 1-9.
  14. Ashfaq A, Iyengar A, Soroya MS, Federman M, Reemtsen BL. Heparin-coated grafts reduce mortality in pediatric patients receiving systemic-to-pulmonary shunts. Pediatr Cardiol 2018; 39: 473-7.
  15. Iyengar A, Kwon OJ, Bailey KL, Ashfaq A, Abdelkarim A, Shemin RJ, Benharash P. Predictors of cardiogenic shock in cardiac surgery patients receiving intra-aortic balloon pumps. Surgery. Accepted on 12/5/17.
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