Armin Arbab-Zadeh

Associate Professor
Medicine - Cardiology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
United States of America

Doctor Cardiology
Biography

Dr. Zadeh is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Computed Tomography in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. After attending medical school in Germany and completing internships in medicine and surgery in Germany and Britain, he spent several years in cardiovascular research at the University of California at San Diego to study coronary artery disease using intravascular ultrasound. He then completed his postgraduate training in Philadelphia and Dallas to join the cardiology faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a CT imaging fellowship in 2005. Dr. Zadeh directs the CT coronary angiography core laboratory for the CorE-320 multicenter trial and is member of its steering committee. He is also co-director of the SCCT Board Review Course and editor of the SCCT Board Review Preparation Book. Dr. Zadeh's particular clinical and investigational focus is the pursuit of strategies to better identify patients at risk for future cardiac events using cardiac imaging. Dr. Zadeh is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and cardiovascular CT. He reviews manucripts for numerous scientific journals, including JACC, JACCimaging, JCCT, AJR, Heart, AJC, and is an author of articles in Circulation, New England Journal of Medicine, JACC, AHJ, and others.

Research Intrest

Coronary/cardiac imaging; Coronary risk prediction; New approaches to identify patients at risk for suffering heart attacks; Cardiac Computed Tomography; Prevention of Cardiac Events; Coronary circulation and disease

List of Publications
Godoy G, Vavere AL, Miller JM, Niinuma H, Lemos P, Paul N, Hoe J, Clouse ME, Ramos CD, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Quantitative coronary arterial stenosis assessment by Multidetector Computed Tomography and Invasive Coronary Angiography for Identifying Patients with Myocardial Perfusion Abnormalities. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2012;19:922-30.
Arbab-Zadeh A and Hoe J. Quantification of coronary arterial stenoses by multi-detector computed tomography and correlation with conventional angiography: methods, caveats, and implications. Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging 2011;4:191-202.
Arbab-Zadeh A, Texter J, Ostbye KM, Kitagawa K, Brinker J, George RT, Miller JH, Trost JC, Lange RA, Lima JAC, Lardo AC. Quantification of lumen stenoses with known dimensions by conventional angiography and computed tomography: implications for the use of angiography as a gold standard. Heart 2010;96:1358-1363.
Miller JM, Rochitte C, Dewey M, Arbab-Zadeh A, Niinuma H, Gottlieb I, Paul N, Clouse M, Shapiro E, Hoe J, Lardo AC, Bush D, de Roos A, Cox C, Brinker J, Lima JAC.Coronary artery evaluation using 64-row multidetector computed tomography angiography (CORE-64): results of a multicenter, international trial to assess diagnostic accuracy compared with conventional coronary angiography. New England Journal of Medicine 2008;359:2324-2336.
Arbab-Zadeh A, Dijk E, Prasad A, Torres P, Fu Q, Zhang R, Thomas J, Palmer DM, Levine BD. Effect of aging and physical activity on left ventricular compliance. Circulation 2004;10:1799-1805.