EvanBrittainMD

Cardiology • Nashville, TN

Echocardiography, Cardiothoracic Imaging

Associate Professor, Medicine, Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med

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Office
719 Thompson Ln
Nashville, TN 37204
Phone+1 615-322-3000

Fax+1 615-936-0605
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Education & Training

Vanderbilt University Medical CenterFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2009 - 2013
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2007 - 2009
Weill Cornell MedicineClass of 2007

Certifications & Licensure

TN State Medical License 2009 - 2025
AL State Medical License 2020 - 2020
American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology

Clinical Trials

Dynamic Assessment of Right Ventricular Function With Inhaled Nitric Oxide During Cardiac MRI Start of enrollment: 2014 Jul 01
Completed
Early Phase 1
Oral Ifetroban to Treat Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) or SSc-associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Start of enrollment: 2017 Jan 01
Recruiting
Phase 2
Right Ventricular Metabolism in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Start of enrollment: 2014 Jun 01
Completed
A Mobile Health Intervention in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Start of enrollment: 2017 Aug 02
Completed
Not Applicable
Activity Monitoring in Pulmonary Hypertension Start of enrollment: 2019 Oct 24
Recruiting
Right Ventricle Lipid in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Start of enrollment: 2023 Jan 17
Recruiting
Roles: Principal Investigator
Effect of PDE5 Inhibition on Adipose Metabolism in Humans Start of enrollment: 2021 Mar 16
Recruiting
Phase 2
Roles: Principal Investigator
The MObile Health InterVEntion in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (MOVE PAH) Study Start of enrollment: 2022 Sep 01
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1 citations
Pulmonary Vascular Disease in Veterans with Post-Deployment Respiratory Syndrome.
Sergey S Gutor, Pingsheng Wu, Ravinder R Mallugari, Katrina Douglas, Vasiliy V Polosukhin, Bradley W Richmond, Vineet Agrawal, Evan L Brittain, Ciara M Shaver, Taryn K...> ;Cardiovascular Pathology. 2024 Apr 9
Correlates of Plasma NT-proBNP/Cyclic GMP Ratio in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: An Analysis of the RELAX Trial.
Leonard Chiu, Sheila Collins, Vineet Agrawal, David Armstrong, Evan Brittain, Anna R Hemnes, Joseph A Hill, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Sanjiv J Shah, Lynne W Stevenson, Thomas ...> ;Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024 Apr 2
Physical Activity and Incident Obesity Across the Spectrum of Genetic Risk for Obesity.
Lide Han, Jeffrey Annis, Hiral Master, Andrew Hughes, Dan M Roden, Paul A Harris, Douglas M Ruderfer, Evan L Brittain> ;JAMA Network Open. 2024 Mar 4
Physical Activity Trajectories Preceding Incident Heart Failure: A Proof-of-Concept Study.
Andrew M Hughes, Jeffrey Annis, Hiral Master, Perry, A., Stevenson, L., Shah, R., Brittain, E.> ;JACC. Heart Failure. 2024 Jan 1
1 citations
Ferroptosis Promotes Pulmonary Hypertension.
Neal T Vogel, Jeffrey Annis, Brittain, E., Kazmirczak, F., Prisco, S., Mancripe, N., Blake, M., Prins, K.> ;Biorxiv. 2023 Dec 2
4 citations
Cirrhosis-related sarcopenia may not resolve after liver transplantation.
Sara Brown, Brooks Richardson, Erin Bouquet, Elise Reid, Evan Mercer, Michael Goncalves, Jeffrey Annis, Evan Brittain, Anthony Dreher, Sophoclis Alexopoulos, James C S...> ;JHEP Reports. 2023 Nov 1
Breaking a Sweat to Catch Your Breath: Exercise Therapy Improves Dyspnea After Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
Evan L Brittain, Sullivan, A.> ;Chest. 2023 Oct 1
9 citations
GWAS of random glucose in 476,326 individuals provide insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification.
Vasiliki Lagou, Longda Jiang, Anna Ulrich, Liudmila Zudina, Karla Sofia Gutiérrez González, Zhanna Balkhiyarova, Alessia Faggian, Jared G Maina, Shiqian Chen, Petar V ...> ;Nature Genetics. 2023 Sep 1
Reply to Wu.
Evan L Brittain, Ryan J Tedford, Bradley A Maron> ;American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2023 Oct 1
2 citations
Genetics of Pulmonary Pressure and Right Ventricle Stress Identify Diabetes as a Causal Risk Factor.
Minoo Bagheri, Vineet Agrawal, Jeffrey Annis, Mingjian Shi, Jane F Ferguson, Matthew S Freiberg, Jonathan D Mosley, Evan L Brittain> ;Journal of the American Heart Association. 2023 Aug 1
Peak steps: Capacity for activity improves after adding approved therapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Daniel Lachant, Allison Light, Michael Lachant, Jeffrey Annis, Anna Hemnes, Evan Brittain, White, R.> ;Pulmonary Circulation. 2023 Jul 1
6 citations
Physical Activity Over the Lifecourse and Cardiovascular Disease.
Andrew S Perry, Erin E Dooley, Hiral Master, Nicole L Spartano, Evan L Brittain, Kelley Pettee Gabriel> ;Circulation Research. 2023 Jun 9
4 citations
Elevated Pulmonary Arterial Compliance Is Associated with Survival in Pulmonary Hypertension: Results from a Novel Network Medicine Analysis.
Rui-Sheng Wang, Shi Huang, Stephen W Waldo, Edward Hess, Madhura Gokhale, Shelsey W Johnson, Katarina Zeder, Gaurav Choudhary, Jane A Leopold, William M Oldham, Gabor ...> ;American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2023 Aug 1
Right Ventricular Imaging for Predicting Risk in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: The Elephant in the Room.
Thenappan Thenappan, Evan L Brittain> ;Chest. 2023 May 1
Author Correction: Association of step counts over time with the risk of chronic disease in the All of Us Research Program.
Hiral Master, Jeffrey Annis, Shi Huang, Joshua A Beckman, Francis Ratsimbazafy, Kayla Marginean, Robert Carroll, Karthik Natarajan, Frank E Harrell, Dan M Roden, Paul ...> ;Nature Medicine. 2023 Dec 1
Clinical features do not identify risk of progression from isolated postcapillary pulmonary hypertension to combined pre- and postcapillary pulmonary hypertension.
Gautam Babu, Jeffrey S Annis, Jonah D Garry, Matthew S Freiberg, Anna R Hemnes, Evan L Brittain> ;Pulmonary Circulation. 2023 Apr 1
28 citations
Right Ventricular Failure.
Brian A Houston, Evan L Brittain, Ryan J Tedford> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2023 Mar 23
16 citations
Wearable Devices in Cardiovascular Medicine.
Andrew Hughes, Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, Hiral Master, Jessilyn Dunn, Evan Brittain> ;Circulation Research. 2023 Mar 3
4 citations
Daily Step Counts Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Among All of Us Research Participants.
Stacy Desine, Hiral Master, Jeffrey Annis, Andrew Hughes, Dan M Roden, Paul A Harris, Evan L Brittain> ;JAMA Network Open. 2023 Mar 1
Feasibility of joint mapping of triglyceride saturation and water longitudinal relaxation in a single breath hold applied to high fat-fraction adipose depots in the pe...
Jason Ostenson, Ryan K Robison, Evan L Brittain, Bruce M Damon> ;Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2023 Jun 1
A potential adverse role for leptin and cardiac leptin receptor in the right ventricle in pulmonary arterial hypertension: effect of metformin is BMPR2 mutation-specific.
Megha Talati, Evan Brittain, Vineet Agrawal, Niki Fortune, Katie Simon, Sheila Shay, Xiaofang Zeng, Michael L Freeman, James West, Anna Hemnes> ;Frontiers in Medicine. 2023 Jan 1
Pulmonary Hypertension Association's 2022 International Conference Scientific Sessions Overview.
Ayedh K Alamri, Nicholas J Shelburne, Jennalyn D Mayeux, Evan Brittain> ;Pulmonary Circulation. 2023 Jan 1
1 citations
Association of Longitudinal Activity Measures and Diabetes Risk: An Analysis From the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program.
Andrew S Perry, Jeffrey S Annis, Hiral Master, Matthew Nayor, Andrew Hughes, Aymone Kouame, Karthik Natarajan, Kayla Marginean, Venkatesh Murthy, Dan M Roden, Paul A H...> ;The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2023 Apr 13
38 citations
Association of step counts over time with the risk of chronic disease in the All of Us Research Program.
Hiral Master, Jeffrey Annis, Shi Huang, Joshua A Beckman, Francis Ratsimbazafy, Kayla Marginean, Robert Carroll, Karthik Natarajan, Frank E Harrell, Dan M Roden, Paul ...> ;Nature Medicine. 2022 Nov 1
18 citations
Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy: Appraisal of the original and revised criteria in predicting posttransplant cardiac outcomes.
Ashley Spann, Christopher Coe, Teminioluwa Ajayi, Garren Montgomery, Mohammed Shwetar, Adesola Oje, Jeffrey Annis, James C Slaughter, Sophoclis Alexopoulos, Evan Britt...> ;Liver Transplantation. 2022 Aug 1
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Lectures

Physician's Perspective on Pulmonary Pressures: How Low Do We Go to Diagnose?
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/17/2019
Panelist: Plain Spoken Perspectives on Pulmonary Hypertension
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/17/2019

Press Mentions

Daily Step Counts Drop Following COVID-19 Pandemic, Study SaysApril 6th, 2023
People Are Walking a Lot Less Since the Covid-19 Pandemic, Says US StudyApril 1st, 2023
KHN Morning BriefingMarch 21st, 2023
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