AhvieHerskowitzMD

Pathology • San Francisco, CA

Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Director, San Francisco Stem Cell Center; Founder, Anatara Medicine; Clinical Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco

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Office
1700 California St
Ste 520
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone+1 415-345-0099

Fax+1 415-345-0059
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Education & Training

Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1983 - 1985
Greenwich Hospital AssociationResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1983
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 1977 - 1980
Albert Einstein College of MedicineClass of 1977

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1998 - 2025
MD State Medical License 1983 - 1998
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Pathology Anatomic Pathology

Clinical Trials

AIDS-Associated Cardiomyopathy Start of enrollment: 1988 Jul 01
Completed

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1 citations
Case Report: Therapeutic and immunomodulatory effects of plasmapheresis in long-haul COVID.
Dobri D Kiprov, Ahvie Herskowitz, Daehwan Kim, Michael Lieb, Chao Liu, Etsuko Watanabe, Jan C Hoffman, Regina Rohe, Michael J Conboy, Irina M Conboy> ;F1000research. 2021 Jan 1
14 citations
Targeting Pulmonary Vascular Disease To Improve Global Health : Pulmonary Vascular Disease: The Global Perspective
Stuart Rich, Ahvie Herskowitz> ;Chest. 2010 Jun 1
3 citations
Practice pattern variability for myocardial revascularization: Impact on resource use across 24 centers
Joseph S. Savino, Catherine Ley, Denis Boisvert, Arnold S. Friedman, Joseph P. Mathew, Colleen G. Koch, Norman J. Starr, Christina Mora Mangano, Ahvie Herskowitz, Warr...> ;Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2002 Apr 1
5 citations
Are we clear about the mechanisms by which biopsy evidence of interstitial fibrosis following cardiac transplantation helps predict late post-transplant coronary arter...
Ahvie Herskowitz, Aftab A. Ansari> ;Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2002 Mar 20
129 citations
Hematocrit value on intensive care unit entry influences the frequency of Q-wave myocardial infarction after coronary artery bypass grafting
Bruce D. Spiess, Catherine Ley, Simon C. Body, Lawrence C. Siegel, E. Price Stover, Rosemarie Maddi, Michael N. D'Ambra, Uday Jain, Fong Liu, Ahvie Herskowitz, Dennis ...> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 1998 Sep 1
6 citations
Accelerated arteriosclerosis in aortic grafts: a role for activated complement and IgM antibody in early lesion development.
R. A. Geerling, Aftab A. Ansari, A. M. LaFond-Walker, William A. Baumgartner, Ahvie Herskowitz> ;Transplantation Proceedings. 1998 Jun 1
2 citations
Accelerated arteriosclerosis in aortic grafts: a role for cytokines in progressive intimal lesion development.
R. A. Geerling, Aftab A. Ansari, A. M. LaFond-Walker, William A. Baumgartner, Steven Lodewyk Wesselingh, Ahvie Herskowitz> ;Transplantation Proceedings. 1998 Jun 1
72 citations
The Concordance of Intraoperative Left Ventricular Wall-motion Abnormalities and Electrocardiographic S-T Segment Changes Association with Outcome after Coronary Revas...
Mark E. Comunale, Simon C. Body, Catherine Ley, Colleen G. Koch, G. Roach, Joseph P. Mathew, Ahvie Herskowitz, Dennis T. Mangano> ;Anesthesiology. 1998 Apr 1
782 citations
Renal Dysfunction after Myocardial Revascularization: Risk Factors, Adverse Outcomes, and Hospital Resource Utilization
Christina Mora Mangano, Laura S. Diamondstone, James Ramsay, A. Aggarwal, Ahvie Herskowitz, Dennis T. Mangano> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 1998 Feb 1
25 citations
Apoptosis of mononuclear cell infiltrates in cardiac allograft biopsy specimens questions studies of biopsy-cultured cells.
Kimberley Cecile Jollow, J.B. Sundstrom, Michael B. Gravanis, Kirk R. Kanter, Ahvie Herskowitz, Aftab A. Ansari> ;Transplantation. 1997 May 1
45 citations
Urine and Plasma Catecholamine and Cortisol Concentrations after Myocardial Revascularization Modulation by Continuous Sedation
J. Jerill Plunkett, John Reeves, Long Ngo, Wayne H. Bellows, Steven L. Shafer, G. Roach, John Howse, Ahvie Herskowitz, Dennis T. Mangano> ;Anesthesiology. 1997 Apr 1
44 citations
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and infective endocarditis among injecting drug users
Susan B. Manoff, David Vlahov, Ahvie Herskowitz, Liza Solomon, Alvaro Muñoz, Sylvia Cohn, Sharon B. Willoughby, Kenrad E. Nelson> ;Epidemiology. 1996 Nov 1
51 citations
Inflammatory cascade. A final common pathway for perioperative injury
Ahvie Herskowitz, Dennis T. Mangano> ;Anesthesiology. 1996 Nov 1
91 citations
Multicenter preoperative stroke risk index for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia (McSPI) Research G...
Mark F. Newman, Richard L. Wolman, Marc S. Kanchuger, K. Marschall, Christina T. Mora-Mangano, G. Roach, L. R. Smith, A. Aggarwal, Nancy A. Nussmeier, Ahvie Herskowitz...> ;Circulation. 1996 Nov 1
203 citations
Nitric oxide inhibits viral replication in murine myocarditis.
Charles J. Lowenstein, Susan L. Hill, Anne Lafond-Walker, Jean Wu, Greg Allen, Mike Landavere, Noel R. Rose, Ahvie Herskowitz> ;The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 1996 Apr 15
30 citations
Dilated heart muscle disease associated with HIV infection
Ahvie Herskowitz, Sharon B. Willoughby, David Vlahov, Kenneth L. Baughman, Aftab A. Ansari> ;European Heart Journal. 1995 Dec 1
37 citations
The Myocarditis Treatment Trial: design, methods and patient enrolment
Elizabeth A. Hahn, V. L. Hartz, T. E. Moon, J. B. O'Connell, Ahvie Herskowitz, Bruce M. McManus, Jay W. Mason> ;European Heart Journal. 1995 Dec 1
27 citations
Frequency of Hypoxanthine Guanine Phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT−) T Cells in the Peripheral Blood of Cardiac Transplant Recipients A Noninvasive Technique for the Di...
Aftab A. Ansari, Ann E. Mayne, J. Bruce Sundstrom, Michael B. Gravanis, Kirk Kanter, Kenneth W. Sell, Francois Villinger, Cynthia O. Siu, Ahvie Herskowitz> ;Circulation. 1995 Aug 15
790 citations
A clinical trial of immunosuppressive therapy for myocarditis
Jay W. Mason, John B. O'Connell, Ahvie Herskowitz, Noel R. Rose, Bruce M. McManus, Margaret E. Billingham, Thomas E. Moon> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 1995 Aug 3
36 citations
Platelet activating factor inhibition reduces lung injury after cardiopulmonary bypass
Kenton J. Zehr, Robert S. Poston, P. C. Lee, Kay Uthoff, Pankaj Kumar, Peter W. Cho, A. Marc Gillinov, J.Mark Redmond, Jerry A. Winkelstein, Ahvie Herskowitz, Duke E. ...> ;The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 1995 Feb 1
3 citations
Mechanisms of human cardiac allograft rejection: absence of co-stimulatory molecules and cell adhesion molecules on major histocompatibility complex class I/II+ human ...
J.B. Sundstrom, Ann E. Mayne, Kirk R. Kanter, Herskowitz A, Ansari Aa> ;Transplantation Proceedings. 1995 Feb 1
2 citations
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of human cardiac myocyte injury after transplantation.
Aftab A. Ansari, J.B. Sundstrom, Kirk R. Kanter, Ann E. Mayne, Francois Villinger, Michael B. Gravanis, Ahvie Herskowitz> ;The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 1995 Jan 1
24 citations
Inhibition of platelet adhesion during cardiopulmonary bypass reduces postoperative bleeding.
Kay Uthoff, Kenton J. Zehr, Rob Geerling, Ahvie Herskowitz, Duke E. Cameron, Bruce A. Reitz> ;Circulation. 1994 Nov 1
22 citations
Patterns of myocardial cell adhesion molecule expression in human endomyocardial biopsies after cardiac transplantation. Induced ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 related to implantat...
Ahvie Herskowitz, Ann E. Mayne, Sharon B. Willoughby, Kirk R. Kanter, Aftab A. Ansari> ;The American Journal of Pathology. 1994 Nov 1
122 citations
Mycarditis and cardiotropic viral infection associated with severe left ventricular dysfunction in late-stage infection with human immunodeficiency virus
Ahvie Herskowitz, Tzyy Choou Wu, Sharon B. Willoughby, David Vlahov, Aftab A. Ansari, William E. Beschorner, Kenneth L. Baughman> ;Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 1994 Oct 1
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Grant Support

Hiv-Associated CardiomyopathyNational Center For Research Resources1993–1994
Aids-Associated Cardiomyopathy--Search For AutoimmunityNational Center For Research Resources1990