Eddy Barasch, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASE
Associate Professor of Medicine

SUNY at Stony Brook
St. Francis Hospital, Department of Research and Education
100 Port Washington Blvd,
Roslyn, NY
Phone: (516) 622-4534/
FAX: (516) 622-4568
Email : eddy.barasch@chsli.org

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• MD, Institute ofMedicine & Pharmacy, 1976Bucharest/Romania
• Internship, Ianca Hospital, Braila/Romania
• Residency, Internal Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1982-1987
• Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1997-1998
• Fellowship, Cardiovascular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center, The Heart Institute, Israel, 1998-1991
• Fellowship, Echocardiography: Baylor College of Medicine, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, 1993-1994

BOARD CERTIFICATION

• Israeli Board Certified in Internal Medicine, 1988
• Israeli Board Certified Cardiovascular Medicine, 1990
• American Board of Internal Medicine, 2000
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, 2001

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

• Cardiovascular Medicine
• Echocardiography
• Nuclear Cardiology
• Internal Medicine

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Myocardial fibrosis in heart failure in the elderly; Cardiovascular Heart Study
• The clinical significance and the prognostic value of the calcification of the fibrous skeleton of the base of the heart and aortosclerosis; Cardiovascular Health Study
• Pathophysiologic mechanisms in severe valvular aortic stenosis with normal LVEF and low transvalvular gradients
• The Genetic, Clinical, Echocardiographic and Surgical Predictors of Reverse Remodeling in Patients Undergoing AVR for Severe Valvular Aortic Stenosis
• Left ventricular diastolic function in relation with MRI determined left ventricular mass: ALIVE study

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Associate Editor, Circulation: 1998-2002
• NIA/NIH grant awarded: Myocardial fibrosis in heart failure in the elderly
• NIH/NHLBI grants reviewer, Heart Failure Section
• Barasch E, Kaushik V, Gupta R, Ronen P, Hartwell B. Elevated cardiac troponin levels do not predict adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients without clinical manifestations of acute coronary syndromes. Cardiology, 2000;93:1-6.
• Rosario RT, DiMaio DJ, Lapham RL, Smalling R, Barasch E. Metastatic ocular melanoma to the left ventricle inducing near-syncope attacks in an 84 year-old woman. Chest 2000;118:551-553.
• Cafri C, de la Guardia B, Barasch E, Brink J, Smalling RW. Transeptal puncture guided by intracardiac echocardiography during percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in patients with distorted anatomy of the fossa ovalis.
  Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2000 Aug;50(4):463-7
• Moustafa A, Diaz S, Vinod K, Barasch E. Relationship between right ventricular systolic pressure and tricuspid annulus motion interrogated by Doppler Tissue Imaging in patients with chronic pulmonary hypertension. Cardiology 2001;95: 96-100.
• Moustapha A, Vinod K, Diaz S, Barasch E. Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction of impaired relaxation type is more likely to be present in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension than in patients with mild or moderate pulmonary hypertension. Cardiology 2001;95:101-104.
• Moustapha A, Lyngholm K, Barasch E. Isolated acute anterolateral papillary muscle rupture presenting as a sole manifestation of acute myocardial infarction and mimicking mitral valve vegetation. Cardiology 2001;96:53-56.
• Barasch E, Morgenstern B.L Headache and Acute Coronary Syndromes. Headache 2002;42:321
• Barasch E. Cardiac metastasis from uveal melanoma. Chest 2001;120(6):2115
• Boccalandru F, Loghin C, Darwood S, Seung-Ho K, Barasch E.
• Restrictive left ventricular filling pattern with preserved systolic function assessed by Doppler echocardiography: clinical, echocardiographic and prognostic implications. Cardiology. 2002;98(3):148-53.
• Barasch E, Moustapha A, Kaushik V, Diaz S, Seung-Ho Kang. Quantitative relationship between severity of pulmonary hypertension and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction has been established. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;41(6):1066
• Ghani M, Bocalandro, Denktas A, Barasch E. Right Atrial Thrombus Formation Associated with Central Venous Catheters Utilization in Hemodialysis Patients.
• Intensive Care Medicine 2003;29:1829-32.
• Boccalandro F, Muench A, Salloum J, Awadalla H, Carter C, Barasch E, Smalling RW. Interatrial defect sizing by intracardiac and transesophageal echocardiography compared with fluoroscopic measurements in patients undergoing percutaneous transcatheter closure. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2004 Jul;62(3):415-20
• Boccalandro F, Loghin C, Kang Seung-Ho and Barasch E. Predictors of Cardiovascular Death in Patients with a Left Ventricular Restrictive Filling Pattern of the Mitral Inflow. Cardiology. 2004 Nov 3;103(1):48-52
• Barasch E, Gottdiener JS, Larsen KE, Newman AB, Manolio TA. Calcification of the Fibrous Skeleton of the Heart and Aortosclerosis in the Community Dwelling Elderly. The Cardiovascular Health Study. Am Heart J. 2006 Jan;151(1):39-47.
• Barasch E, MD, Gottdiener JS, Larsen KE, Chaves PHM, Newman AB. Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Community – Dwelling Elderly Individuals with Calcification of the Fibrous Skeleton of the Base of the Heart and Aortosclerosis. The Cardiovascular Health Study. Accepted for publication in the American Journal of Cardiology