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Aasha Gopal, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Advanced Echocardiography
St. Francis Hospital
100 Port Washington Blvd.
Roslyn, NY 11576
Phone: 516-562-6512
Fax: 516-414-3042
Email: Aasha.Gopal@chsli.org
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- AB, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1976
- MS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1979
- MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1985
- Residency in Internal Medicine – Columbia-Presbtyerian Medical Center,
1985 – 1988
- Fellowship in Cardiology – Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center,
1988 – 1991
BOARD CERTIFICATION
- American Board of Internal Medicine,1988
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty in Cardiovascular Disease,
1993 (recertified, 2004)
- American Society of Echocardiography (Level III ),2001
AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE
- Transthoracic echocardiography
- Transesophageal echocardiography
- Stress echocardiography
- Intraoperative echocardiography
- Three-dimensional echocardiography
- Tissue-Doppler echocardiography
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Three-dimensional echocardiography
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Grants (AHA Principal Investigatorship and Grant-In-Aid awards; Lang Research
Foundation award; Empire Clinical
Research Investigatorship Program grant recipient 2005 – 2008), grants
from Philips Corporation, St. Jude Medical
- Faculty at ISCU 2006, ACC 2006, ASE 2006
- Contributor to the “New Technologies” section of the American
College of Cardiology’s EchoSAP 5 product, January 2006.
- Ad hoc Working Committee on Live 3D Echo Protocols for Assessment of
the Mitral Valve, American Society
of Echocardiography, ASE Research Committee; Long Island Echo
Society
- Mihalatos D, Mathew S, Gopal A, Grimson R, Reichek N. Relationship of
mitral annular remodeling to
severity of chronic mitral regurgitation. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2006;19:76-82.
- Premkumar VJ, Paimany B, Gopal AS. Primary Large B-cell Cardiac Lymphoma.
J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2006;19:107.e1-e2.
- Gopal AS, Butkevich A, Roychoudhury D, Phillips RA. Evaluation of the
ECG criteria for left ventricular
hypertrophy with use of three-dimensional echocardiography. Echocardiography
2006 (in press).
- Mihalatos D, Gopal A, Kates R, Grimson R, Reichek N. Optimal
intraoperative assessment of mitral regurgitation.
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2005 (in press).
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