Ajith P Nair MD FACC FAHA

Heart Failure & Transplantation

Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Summary

I am board certified in Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant. Currently I serve as the Director of the Heart Failure Clinic at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center and Assistant Director of the Advanced Heart Failure fellowship program. My clinic interests include advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant, diastolic dysfunction, valvular heart disease, exercise physiology and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiFellowship, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, 2008 - 2009
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2005 - 2008
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalChief Residency, Internal Medicine, 2004 - 2005
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2001 - 2004
University of Texas Southwestern Medical SchoolClass of 2001

TX State Medical License 2014 - 2026
NY State Medical License 2003 - 2018
PA State Medical License 2008 - 2008
American Board of Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

REDUCE LAP-HF III Corvia Protocol 1701 Start of enrollment: 2017 Jul 12
Recruiting
Hemodynamic-GUIDEd Management of Heart Failure Start of enrollment: 2018 Mar 15
COMPLETED
NA
Surveillance HeartCare® Outcomes Registry Start of enrollment: 2018 Dec 28
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

PubMed

Effect of Aficamten Compared With Metoprolol on Echocardiographic Measures in Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: MAPLE-HCM.
Sheila M Hegde, Xiaowen Wang, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Stoyan Getchevski, Ahmad Masri
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2025-12-16
Aficamten in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Multidomain, Patient-Level Analysis of the MAPLE-HCM Trial.
Andrew Wang, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Ahmad Masri, Bela Merkely, Michael E Nassif
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2025-11-18
Effect of Aficamten vs Metoprolol on Patient-Reported Health Status in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
Michael E Nassif, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Ahmad Masri, Bela Merkely, Maria Luisa Peña-Peña
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2025-11-18

Journal Articles

Anticoagulation in Heart Failure: Who, When and Why
Nair AP, Sealove B, Halperin, J, Webber G, Fuster V, Eur Heart J Suppl, 2006

Books/Book Chapters

Sex Differences in Cardiac Diseases: Pathophysiology, Presentation, Diagnosis and Management
Chapter: Sex differences in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Mohammed S, Aggarwal N, Nair A, Deswal AEditors: Aggarwal N, Wood M.Elsevier2021
Sex Differences in Cardiac Diseases: Pathophysiology, Presentation, Diagnosis and Management
Chapter: Sex differences in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Nair A, Mohammed S, Aggarwal N, Deswal AEditors: Aggarwal N, Wood M..Elsevier2021
Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery
Chapter: Mechanical circulatory support
Bhardwaj A, Shafii A, Civitello A, Nair AEditors: Mukherjee D, Lange RA.Wolters Kluwer2021

Abstracts/Posters

Investigating Genetic Variants in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices for Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy
Scott C, Posey J, Butac C, Lamba H, Oberton S, Shafii A, Liao K, Loor G, George J, Simpson L, Delgado R, Civitello A, Nair A, International Society of Heart Lung Transplant, Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO, 4/2023
Greater Burden of Biventricular Dysfunction in Female Recipients of Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Devices
Lamba H, Kherallah RY, Kassi M, Delgado R, Mattar A, Nair A, Chatterjee S, Shafii A, Loor G, Rogers J, Civitello A, Liao K, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Denver, CO, 4/2023
Sex Disparities in the Use of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Nonischemic-Cardiogenic Shock
Bhardwaj A, Rajapreyar I, Kumar S, Nair A, Brailovsky Y, Pirlamarla P, Baran D, International Society of Heart Lung Transplant, Denver, CO, 4/2023

Lectures

Treatment Strategies for the Right Heart in Pulmonary Hypertension: Which Therapies, in Whom and When?
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/16/2019