RichardAShlofmitzMD

Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Interventional Cardiology

Chairman Cardiology St Francis Hospital

Overview of Dr. Shlofmitz

Dr. Richard Shlofmitz is a cardiologist in Roslyn, NY and is the chairman of cardiology at St Francis Hospital. He received his medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and has been in practice 37 years. He specializes in interventional cardiology with expertise in intravascular imaging with OCT and calcium ablation

Office
100 Port Washington Blvd..
Roslyn, NY 11576
Book by Phone+1(631) 825-8980

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Education & Training

New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)Fellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1984 - 1986
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/NorthwellResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1984
New York University School of MedicineClass of 1980

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 1993 - Present
NY State Medical License 1981 - 2024
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2002-2014
Top Doctors: New York Metro Area Castle Connolly, 2002-2014
Newsday - Top Doctors on Long Island Castle Connolly, 2008, 2010-2014
New York Magazine: Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2002-2010, 2012-2014
Most Compassionate Doctor American Registry
Top MD Consumers Checkbook
Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
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Clinical Trials

The Saint Francis Remote Ischemic Preconditioning Trial (SaFR) Start of enrollment: 2010 Mar 01
Terminated
Not Applicable
Plavix, Prasugrel and Drug Eluting Stents Pilot Trial Start of enrollment: 2010 Apr 01
Unknown status
Not Applicable
Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System Study Start of enrollment: 2014 Jun 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Medtronic Resolute Onyx 2.0 mm Clinical Study Start of enrollment: 2015 Apr 06
Completed
Not Applicable
Does Co-registration of OCT and Angiography Reduce Geographic Miss of Stent Implantation? Start of enrollment: 2016 Feb 01
Unknown status
Not Applicable
Physiologic Assessment of Coronary Stenosis Following PCI Start of enrollment: 2017 Jun 20
Completed
Evaluation of Treatment Strategies for Severe CaLcIfic Coronary Arteries: Orbital Atherectomy vs. Conventional Angioplasty Technique Prior to Implantation of Drug-Eluting StEnts: The ECLIPSE Trial Start of enrollment: 2017 Mar 27
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
OCT and Scaffold Embedding After NC Balloon Start of enrollment: 2017 Mar 30
Unknown status
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator
A Clinical Trial to Assess the Agent Paclitaxel Coated PTCA Balloon Catheter for the Treatment of Subjects With In-Stent Restenosis (ISR) Start of enrollment: 2021 May 11
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Optical Coherence Tomography-Based Functional Stenosis Assessment: FUSION-A Prospective Multicenter Trial.
Akiko Maehara, Mitsuaki Matsumura, Takashi Akasaka, Joshua Rapkin, Ajay Gopinath, Nutte Tarn Teraphongphom, Jana Buccola, Allen Jeremias, Richard A Shlofmitz, Aziz Mak...> ;Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2024 Mar 25
1 citations
Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon vs Uncoated Balloon for Coronary In-Stent Restenosis: The AGENT IDE Randomized Clinical Trial.
Robert W Yeh, Richard Shlofmitz, Jeffrey Moses, William Bachinsky, Suhail Dohad, Steven Rudick, Robert Stoler, Brian K Jefferson, William Nicholson, John Altman, Cinth...> ;JAMA. 2024 Mar 26
Coronary intravascular lithotripsy for severe coronary artery calcification: The disrupt CAD I-IV trials.
Zachary M Visinoni, Daniel L Jurewitz, Dean J Kereiakes, Richard Shlofmitz, Evan Shlofmitz, Ziad Ali, Jonathan Hill, Michael S Lee> ;Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine. 2024 Mar 3
Rotational atherectomy combined with cutting balloon to optimise stent expansion in calcified lesions: the ROTA-CUT randomised trial.
Sharma, S., Mehran, R., Vogel, B., Hooda, A., Sartori, S., Hanstein, R., Feng, Y., Shlofmitz, R., Jeremias, A., Spirito, A., Cao, D., Shlofmitz, E., Ali, Z., Yasumura,...> ;Eurointervention. 2024 Jan 1
3 citations
Dyspnea-Related Ticagrelor Discontinuation After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
Dominick J Angiolillo, Davide Cao, Samantha Sartori, Usman Baber, George Dangas, Zhongjie Zhang, Birgit Vogel, Vijay Kunadian, Carlo Briguori, David J Cohen, Timothy C...> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2023 Oct 23
Quantitative In Vitro Investigation of Polymer Damage on Drug-Eluting Stents Resulting From Intravascular Lithotripsy.
Brian Beatty, Doosup Shin, Eric Wolff, Michael Shearer, Gregory Saggio, Evan Shlofmitz, Allen Jeremias, Jeffrey W Moses, Richard A Shlofmitz, Ziad A Ali> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2024 Jan 22
Clinically Driven Revascularization in High-Risk Patients Treated With Ticagrelor Monotherapy After PCI: Insights from the Randomized TWILIGHT Trial.
Usman Baber, Alessandro Spirito, Samantha Sartori, Dominick J Angiolillo, Carlo Briguori, David J Cohen, Timothy Collier, George Dangas, Dariusz Dudek, Javier Escaned,...> ;The American Journal of Cardiology. 2023 Dec 1
1 citations
Impact of Calcium Eccentricity on the Safety and Effectiveness of Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy: Pooled Analysis From the Disrupt CAD Studies.
Ziad A Ali, Dean J Kereiakes, Jonathan M Hill, Shigeru Saito, Carlo Di Mario, Benjamin Honton, Nieves Gonzalo, Robert F Riley, Akiko Maehara, Mitsuaki Matsumura, Doosu...> ;Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2023 Oct 1
2 citations
Bleeding and Ischemic Risks of Ticagrelor Monotherapy After Coronary Interventions.
Guiomar Mendieta, Shamir Mehta, Usman Baber, Dominick J Angiolillo, Carlo Briguori, David Cohen, Timothy Collier, George Dangas, Dariusz Dudek, Javier Escaned, Robert ...> ;Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2023 Aug 22
Recurrence of Protruding Calcified Nodule Visualized Using Optical Coherence Tomography Following Stent Implantation.
Karen W Chau, Ali Dakroub, Evan S Shlofmitz, Richard A Shlofmitz, Allen Jeremias, Ziad A Ali> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2023 Jul 24
2 citations
Accuracy and limitation of plaque detection by coronary CTA: a section-to-section comparison with optical coherence tomography.
J Jane Cao, Linghong Shen, James Nguyen, Kathleen Rapelje, Craig Porter, Evan Shlofmitz, Allen Jeremias, David J Cohen, Ziad A Ali, Richard Shlofmitz> ;Scientific Reports. 2023 Jul 22
Utility of optical coherence tomography in acute coronary syndromes.
Keyvan Karimi Galougahi, Ali Dakroub, Karen Chau, Rony Mathew, Ajit Mullasari, Balbir Singh, Gunasekaran Sengottuvelu, Akiko Maehara, Gary Mintz, Allen Jeremias, Evan ...> ;Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2023 Jul 1
11 citations
Management strategies for heavily calcified coronary stenoses: an EAPCI clinical consensus statement in collaboration with the EURO4C-PCR group.
Emanuele Barbato, Emanuele Gallinoro, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Daniele Andreini, Didier Carrié, Carlo Di Mario, Dariusz Dudek, Javier Escaned, Jean Fajadet, Giulio Guagliu...> ;European Heart Journal. 2023 Nov 1
8 citations
Impact of Eruptive vs Noneruptive Calcified Nodule Morphology on Acute and Long-Term Outcomes After Stenting.
Takao Sato, Mitsuaki Matsumura, Kei Yamamoto, Evan Shlofmitz, Jeffrey W Moses, Omar K Khalique, Susan V Thomas, Anna Tsoulios, David J Cohen, Gary S Mintz, Richard A S...> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2023 May 8
Optical Coherence Tomography-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Practical Application.
Ziad A Ali, Keyvan Karimi Galougahi, Susan V Thomas, Arsalan Abu-Much, Karen Chau, Ali Dakroub, Evan S Shlofmitz, Allen Jeremias, Nick West, Mitsuaki Matsumura, Gary S...> ;Interventional Cardiology Clinics. 2023 Apr 1
Ticagrelor with or without aspirin in high-risk patients with anaemia undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: a subgroup analysis of the TWILIGHT trial.
Alessandro Spirito, Adnan Kastrati, Davide Cao, Usman Baber, Samantha Sartori, Dominick J Angiolillo, Carlo Briguori, David J Cohen, George Dangas, Dariusz Dudek, Javi...> ;European Heart Journal. Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy. 2023 Jun 2
Optical Coherence Tomography Assessed Vascular Healing Following Intravascular Lithotripsy.
Karen W Chau, Evan S Shlofmitz, Allen Jeremias, Richard A Shlofmitz, Ziad A Ali> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2023 Feb 13
3 citations
Ticagrelor with and without aspirin in patients with a prior coronary artery bypass graft undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: the TWILIGHT-CABG study.
Sardella, G., Beerkens, F., Dangas, G., Cao, D., Baber, U., Sartori, S., Cohen, D., Briguori, C., Gil, R., Nicolas, J., Zhang, Z., Dudek, D., Kunadian, V., Kornowski, ...> ;Eurointervention. 2022 Dec 2
2 citations
The MLD MAX OCT algorithm: An imaging-based workflow for percutaneous coronary intervention.
Evan Shlofmitz, Kevin Croce, Hiram Bezerra, Tej Sheth, Bassem Chehab, Nick E J West, Richard Shlofmitz, Ziad A Ali> ;Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2022 Nov 1
4 citations
Optical coherence tomography versus angiography and intravascular ultrasound to guide coronary stent implantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Tariq Jamal Siddiqi, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Keyvan Karimi Galougahi, Evan Shlofmitz, Jeffrey W Moses, Sunil Rao, Nick E J West, Eric Wolff, Jason Hochler, Karen Chau, ...> ;Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2022 Nov 1
2 citations
Bleeding and Ischemic Outcomes With Ticagrelor Monotherapy According to Body Mass Index.
Kunadian, V., Baber, U., Pivato, C., Cao, D., Dangas, G., Sartori, S., Zhang, Z., Angiolillo, D., Briguori, C., Cohen, D., Collier, T., Dudek, D., Gibson, M., Gil, R.,...> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2022 Oct 10
Antithrombotic strategy variability in atrial fibrillation and obstructive coronary disease revascularised with percutaneous coronary intervention: primary results fro...
Jaya Chandrasekhar, Usman Baber, Samantha Sartori, Ridhima Goel, Johny Nicolas, Birgit Vogel, Clayton Snyder, Annapoorna Kini, Carlo Briguori, Bernhard Witzenbichler, ...> ;Eurointervention. 2022 Oct 7
4 citations
Calcium Modification in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions.
Richard A Shlofmitz, Keyvan Karimi Galougahi, Allen Jeremias, Evan Shlofmitz, Susan V Thomas, Ziad A Ali> ;Interventional Cardiology Clinics. 2022 Oct 1
Intravascular Lithotripsy for Treatment of Calcified Coronary Artery Disease.
Dean J Kereiakes, Ziad A Ali, Robert F Riley, Timothy D Smith, Richard A Shlofmitz> ;Interventional Cardiology Clinics. 2022 Oct 1
3 citations
Prevalence and Impact of Neoatherosclerosis on Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous Treatment of Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stent Restenosis.
Zhaoyang Chen, Mitsuaki Matsumura, Gary S Mintz, Masahiko Noguchi, Tatsuhiro Fujimura, Eisuke Usui, Fumiyasu Seike, Xun Hu, Ge Jin, Chenguang Li, Hanan Salem, Khady N ...> ;Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2022 Sep 1
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Journal Articles

Safety of Same-Day Discharge After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Orbital Atherectomy
Richard Shlofmitz, Evan Shlofmitz, Theofanis Tsiamtsiouris, Andrew Berke, Andrew Lituchy, ScienceDirect

Lectures

Step-by-Step OCT: From Pre-Intervention Through Stent Optimization to Assessment of Complications
CRF Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics - Annual Symposium 2019 - Miami, FL - 9/26/2019
The Changing Interventional Practice: Managing a Complex PCI Patient Population
CRF Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics - Annual Symposium 2019 - Miami, FL - 9/27/2019
The Concept of Precision PCI: OCT Guidance in Everyday Practice
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/18/2019

Press Mentions

Shockwave Medical Launches New Coronary IVL CatheterMay 16th, 2023
How Covid-19 Affects Heart Health, According to DoctorsFebruary 8th, 2022
Cardiovascular Systems Announces Presentation of Data from Large Coronary Orbital Atherectomy Study at the TCT Connect 2020 ConferenceOctober 7th, 2020
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