Smadar Kort MD, FACC, FASE
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Imaging
Director, Echocardiography

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
SUNY-Stony Brook
Health Sciences Center T16-080
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone: 631-444-1060
Fax: 631-444-1054
E-mail: skort@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• BS, Biologic Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1988
• MD, Sackler School of Medicine, Israel, 1993
• Residency, Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital – Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, 1993-1996
• Fellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, The New York Hospital – Cornell University Medical College, 1996-1999
• Advanced Fellowship, Echocardiography, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, 2000

BOARD CERTIFICATION

• American Board of Internal Medicine, 1996
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, 1999
• National Board of Echocardiography, Special Competency in Adult Echocardiography, 2000
• National Board of Echocardiography, Board Certification in Adult Echocardiography, 2001

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

• Comprehensive adult echocardiography including transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, dobutamine stress echocardiography, intraoperative echocardiography
• 3D echocardiography including transthoracic and transesophageal
• Tissue Doppler
• Speckle Imaging
• Strain, Strain Rate

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Innovative applications of 3D echocardiography
• 3D echo and tissue Doppler in CRT
  
• Clinical applications of speckle imaging
• Echocardiographic analysis of genetically altered cardiomyopathic mice

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• American Society of Echocardiography, Board of Directors
  
• Long Island Echo Society, President
  
• American College of Cardiology, Echo Committee
  
• Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Echocardiography by the Indian Academy of Echocardiography and R.N.T. Medical College, Udaipur, India, 2005
  
• Life Time Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology in the World. Presented by the President of India, 2006
  
• Editorial Board:Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
  
• Section editor, New Technologies, ECHOSAP 5, American College of Cardiology, 2006
  
• Zeidler A, Edwards P, Goldman J, Kort S, Meehan WP, Levine SR. Hyperglycemic, athymic nude mice. Factors affecting in vitro insulin secretion. Am J Physiol. 1992; 1131-3.
  
• Rosenzweig BP, Katz ES, Kort S, Schloss M, Kronzon I. Thromboembolus from a ligated left atrial appendage. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2001;14:396-8.
  
• Kort S, Tunick PA, Applebaum RM, Hayes R, Krinsky G A, Sadler W, Culliford A, Grossi EA, Ostrowski J, Kronzon I. Acquired aorta - pulmonary artery fistula: diagnosis by multiple imaging modalities. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2001;14:842-5.
  
• Kort S, Applebaum RM, Grossi EA, Bauman GF, Colvin SB, Galloway AC, Ribakove GH, Steinberg BM, Piedad B, Tunick PA, Kronzon I. Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement: echocardiographic and clinical results. Am Heart J 2001;142:476-81.
  
• McAleer E, Kort S, Rosenzweig BP, Katz ES, Tunick PA, Phoon CK, Kronzon I. Unusual echocardiographic views of bicuspid and tricuspid pulmonic valves. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2001; 14:1036-8
  
• Reynolds HR, Tunick PA, Kort S, Rosenzweig BP, Freedberg RS, Katz ES, Applebaum RM, Portnay EL, Adelman MA, Attubato MJ, Kronzon I. Abdominal aortic aneurysms and thoracic aortic atheromas. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2001; 14:1127-31.
  
• Patel J, Michaels J, Mieres J, Kort S, Mangion J. Echocardiographic diagnosis of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with Optison contrast. Echocardiography 2002; 19:521-524.
  
• Salem MI, Makaryus AN, Kort S, Chung E, Marchant D, Ong L, Mangion J. Intracardiac echocardiography using the Acunav (10f, 5-10mh) ultrasound catheter during percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2002; 15:1533-7.
  
• Cosmi JE, Kort S, Tunick PA, Rosenzweig BP, Freedberg RS, Katz ES, Applebaum RM, Kronzon I. The risk of developing aortic stenosis in patients with “benign” aortic valve thickening. Arch Int Med 2002; 162:2345-2347.
  
• Joseph T, Raccuglia S, Kort S, Mangion J. Anomalous right coronary artery from the main pulmonary artery in a patient with double-chambered right ventricle. Echocardiography 2002; 19:687-690.
  
• Makaryus AN, Popowski B, Kort S, Paris Y, Mangion J. A rare case of alstrom syndrome presenting with rapidly progressive severe dilated cardiomyopathy diagnosed by echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2003;16:194-6.
  
• Kanarek SE, Wright P, Liu J, Boglioli LR, Bajwa AS, Hall M, Kort S. Multiple fibroelastoma: a case report and review of the literature. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2003;16:373-6.
  
• Makaryus AN, D’Arduini A, Mallin J, Chung E, Kort S, Shi Q, Jadonath R, Mangion J. Echocardiographic features of patients with heart failure who may benefit from biventricular pacing. Echocardiography 2003;20:217-23.
  
• Makaryus AN, Tung F, Liu W, Mangion JR, Kort S. Extensive neoplastic cardiac infiltration in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia: the role of echocardiography. Echocardiography 2003;20:539-44.
  
• Makaryus AN, Kort S, Rosman D, Vatsia S, Mangion JR. Successful surgical repair of a giant left main coronary artery aneurysm with arteriovenous fistula draining into a persistent left superior vena cava and coronary sinus: role of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography . J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2003;16:1322-5.
  
• Patel J, Park C, Michaels J, Rosen S, Kort S. Pericardial cyst: case reports and a literature review. Echocardiography 2004; 21:269-272.
  • Makaryus AN, Makaryus JN, Kort S. Mediastinal lymphoma presenting as asystolic arrest. Echocardiography 2004;21:285-288.
  
• Makaryus AN, Hametz C, Mieres J, Kort S, Carneglia J, Mangion J. Diagnosis of suspected cardiac echinococcosis with negative serologies: role of transthoracic, transesophageal, and contrast echocardiography. Eur J Echocardiography 2004;5: 223-227.
  
• Makaryus AN, Yang R, Cohen R, Rosman D, Mangion JR, Kort S. A Rare case of listeria monocytogenes presenting as prosthetic valve bacterial endocarditis and aortic root abscess. Echocardiography 2004; 21:423-427.
  
• Mickelakis N, Makaryus A, Rosman D, Kort S. Assessment of intracardiac anomalies in two adults with Ivemark syndrome. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2004; 17:1292-6.
  
• Kort S. Intracardiac echocardiography. Review article. J Ind Acad Echo 2004; 7:591-594.
  
• Makaryus AN, Yang R, Hahn RT, Kort S. A rare case of lactobacillus acidophilus presenting as mitral valve bacterial endocarditis. Echocardiography 2005; 22:421-425.
  
• M akaryus AN, Zubrow ME, Gillam LD, Michaelakis N, Phillips L, Ahmed S, Friedman D, Sison C, Kort S, Rosman D, Mangion JR. Contrast echocardiography improves the diagnostic yield of transthoracic studies performed by novice sonographers in the intensive care setting. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2005; 18:475-80.
  
• Mittle S, Makaryus AN, Boutis L, Hartman A, Rosman D, Kort S. Right sided myxomas. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2005; 18:e14-7.
  
• Makaryus AN, Makaryus J, Hartman A, Kort S. Left atrial septal ventricularization after re-operation for mitral valve replacement. Echocardiography 2006 ; 23:522-24.
  
• Kort S. Real time three dimensional echocardiography for prosthetic valve endocarditis – initial experience. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2006; 19:130 -139.
  
• Vlay S., Kort S. Biventricular pacing using dual-site right ventricular stimulation: is it placebo effect? PACE 2006; 29:779-783.
  
• Kort S. Intracardiac echocardiography – evolution, recent advances and current applications. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2006; 19:1192-1201.
  
• Said SI, Hamidi SA, Dickman KG, Szema AM, Lyubsky S, Lin RZ, Jiang Y-P, Chen JJ, Waschek JA, Kort S. Moderate pulmonary hypertension in male mice lacking the vasoactive intestinal peptide gene. Circulation 2007;115:1260-1268.
  
• Stergiopoulos K, Mathews R, Setaro JF, Brennan JJ, Kort S. Anabolic Steroids, Acute Myocardial Infarction, and Polycythemia - A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Vascular Health and Risk Management. 2008:4(6);1475-1480.

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