Jason Ciril Kovacic MD PhD FRACP FAHA FACC FSCAI

PubMed

• Breathing Fire: Cumulative Wildfire Smoke Exposure as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor.
  Kathryn Wolhuter, Lee Nedkoff, Mark R Miller, Jason C Kovacic
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2026-03-24
• Development and Validation of a Measure of Psychological Distress After Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: The Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Distress Inv...
  Barbara M Murphy, Michael R Le Grande, Sarah T Clarke, Stephanie Hesselson, Michelle C Rogerson
  Journal of the American Heart Association. 2026-03-17
• 2 citations
  Endothelial to mesenchymal transition in cardiovascular diseases: molecular insights and clinical perspectives.
  Ignacio Fernando Hall, Elena Aikawa, Judith Sluimer, Andrew H Baker, Jason C Kovacic
  European Heart Journal. 2026-03-09

Journal Articles

• JACC Focus Seminar: Macrophage in CVD Series JACC Focus Seminar Macrophage Trafficking, Inflammatory Resolution, and Genomics in Atherosclerosis: JACC Macrophage in CV...  
  Amanda C Doran, Jason C Kovacic, Edward A Fisher, Ira Tabas, ScienceDirect
• The Macrophage in Cardiac Homeostasis and Disease  
  Jason C Kovacic, Kory J Lavine, ScienceDirect
• JACC Focus Seminar: Macrophage in CVD Series JACC Focus Seminar Macrophage Biology, Classification, and Phenotype in Cardiovascular Disease: JACC Macrophage in CVD Ser...  
  Jason Kovacic, MD, ScienceDirect

Books/Book Chapters

• Interventional Cardiology: Principles and Practice 
  Chapter: Aortic Valvuloplasty and Large-Bore Percutaneous Arterial Access 
  Page 546 - 557Tomey M, Kini AS, Sharma SK, Kovacic JCEditors: George Dangas, Carlo Di-Mario, Nicholas Kipshidze.Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United KingdomEdition 2nd,2017
• Interventional Cardiology: Principles and Practice 
  Chapter: Genetics and Pharmacogenetics in Interventional Cardiology 
  Page 459 - 468Johnston-Cox H, Bjorkegren JLM, Kovacic JCEditors: George Dangas, Carlo Di-Mario, Nicholas Kipshidze.Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United KingdomEdition 2nd,2017
• Hurst’s the Heart 
  Chapter: Biology of the vessel wall 
  Page 144 - 160Johnston-Cox H, Fuster V, Kovacic JCEditors: Valentin Fuster, Robert Harrington, Jagat Narula, Zubin Eapen.The McGraw-Hill Companies Publishing, Columbus, OHEdition 14th,2017

Lectures

• Post Discharge Care: It's Not Over Yet What Do I Tell my Patient? 
  2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/17/2019
• Defining the cause of the "rare" vascular disease fibromuscular dysplasia using systems genetics and leveraging CAD genetics datasets 
  Paris, France - 1/1/2017
• Endothelial to Mesenchymal Transition Contributes to Plaque Formation and Correlates with Instability 
  Sunday River, Newry, ME - 1/1/2017