
Saad Saifuddin Ahmad
Assistant Professor of Clinical
Medical Sciences Building
3054C
COM IM Cardiology B - 0542
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
231 Albert Sabin Way, MLC 0542
Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
Education
Medical Degree, Aga Khan University 2005
Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2011
Fellowship, Heart Failure/Transplant, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2012
Fellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2015
Fellowship, Interventional Cardiology, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2016
Clinical Focus
Cardiology
Cardiology Interventional
Cardiovascular Disease
Specialities
Cardiovascular Disease
Heart Failure/Transplant
Internal Medicine
Interventional Cardiology
Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine (Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology)
10/03/2018
American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease)
10/06/2015
American Board of Internal Medicine
08/17/2011
American Board of Internal Medicine (Interventional Cardiology)
10/06/2016Research Support
Grant: #2037894 / U01HL134679 Investigators:Ahmad, Saad 08-27-2018 -07-31-2022 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Spironolactone Initiation Registry Randomized Interventional Trial in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction SPIRRIT-HFpEF "Study" Role:PI $17,908.22 Active Level:Federal
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Ahmad, Saad; Bhatti, Sabha; Shizukuda, Yukitaka (2013. ) Continuing medical education activity in echocardiography.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), , 30 (2 ) ,190
Ahmad, Saad; Bhatti, Sabha; Shizukuda, Yukitaka (2013. ) Functional assessment of donor and recipient left atrium in heart transplant patients using full-volume three-dimensional echocardiography.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), , 30 (2 ) ,191-5
Ahmad, Saad; Gujja, Pradeep; Naz, Tehmina; Ying, Jun; Dunlap, Stephanie H; Shizukuda, Yukitaka (2015. ) Clinical significance of left atrial volume in clinical outcomes of heart transplant recipients.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery, , 10 ,96
Ahmad, Saad S; Gerson, Myron C (2017. ) Sympathetic drive stimulating diastolic dysfunction?.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, ,
Ahmad, Saad; Wilt, Heath (2016. ) Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation and Valvular Heart Disease.The open cardiovascular medicine journal, , 10 ,110-6
Ahmad, Saad; Jamali, Hina K; Waqar, Fahad; Harris, David M (2016. ) Cardiac Tamponade Physiology Secondary to Tense Ascites.Cardiology, , 134 (4 ) ,423-5
Kingsley, Clotilde; Ahmad, Saad; Pappachan, John; Khambekar, Sujata; Smith, Thomas; Gardiner, Diane; Shambrook, James; Baskar, Shankar; Moore, Ryan; Veldtman, Gruschen (2018. ) Right ventricular contractile reserve in tetralogy of Fallot patients with pulmonary regurgitation.Congenital heart disease, , 13 (2 ) ,288-294
Athar, Muhammad W; Waqar, Fahad; Dwivedi, Alok K; Ahmad, Saad; Sanghvi, Saagar; Scott, Elonia; Khan, Naseer; Gerson, Myron C (2019. ) Effects of gender and defect reversibility on detection of coronary disease with an upright and supine cadmium-zinc-telluride camera.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, ,
Post Graduate Training and Education
07-01-2008-06-30-2011 Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, , Cincinnati, Ohio
07-01-2011-06-30-2012 Fellow, Heart Failure/Transplantation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, , Cincinnati, Ohio
07-01-2012-06-30-2015 Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, , Cincinnati, Ohio
07-01-2015-06-30-2016 Fellowship, Interventional Cardiology, University of Cincinnati, , Cincinnati, OH
Contact Information
Academic - Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
231 Albert Sabin Way, MLC 0542
CincinnatiĀ
Ohio, 45267
saad.ahmad@uc.edu