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Robert Soufer, MD, Cardiology, West Haven, CT, Yale-New Haven Hospital

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Cardiology • West Haven, CT

Nuclear Cardiology, Non-Invasive Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology

Professor of Medicine Vice Chair, Department of Medicine for Clinical Research Chief Cardiology, VACT Healthcare Yale School of Medicine

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Summary

  • Robert Soufer joined Yale as a Cardiology fellow and thereafter a Nuclear Medicine Residency. Upon completing his training, he became an Assistant Professor at Yale. Currently, he is Chief of the Cardiovascular Medicine Section at VA-CT Health Care Systems.

    Dr. Soufer’s research has been motivated by the pursuit of models for recurring clinical presentations lacking conceptual constructs. He first encountered patients with signs and symptoms of heart failure with normal left ventricular function. This resulted in his seminal publication concerning the description, frequency and mechanism of Diastolic Heart Failure, currently a major cohort of CHF patients. Thereafter he turned his attention to the mediation of emotions such as anger to the development of myocardial ischemia. He established the Yale/VA Positron Emission Tomography Center, one of the first multidisciplinary imaging centers of its kind, dedicated to clinical research and integration of scientists from varied disciplines/approach to answer similar clinical queries not addressed by extant efforts. During this period, he established Yale as one of the earliest centers engaged in CV metabolic imaging. Thereafter, working with the late Neuroscientist P.G. Rakic, he innovated techniques to simultaneously measure cerebral and myocardial blood during emotionally provocative interventions. This resulted in innovative publications of the first dynamic mappings of the brain during the transduction of myocardial ischemia in response to standardized emotionally stressful laboratory intervention in patients. This work shaped and broadened the conceptual construct in Neurocardiac interaction investigation. Specifically, paradigms of emotionally provoked myocardial ischemia, termed MSMI, (Mental Stress Induced Myocardial Ischemia).

Education & Training

  • Yale-New Haven Medical Center
    Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Nuclear Medicine, 1983 - 1985
  • Yale-New Haven Medical Center
    Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1982 - 1984
  • SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
    SUNY Health Science Center at BrooklynChief Residency, Internal Medicine, 1981 - 1982
  • SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
    SUNY Health Science Center at BrooklynResidency, Internal Medicine, 1978 - 1981
  • New York Medical College
    New York Medical CollegeClass of 1978
  • New York University/School of Science and Engineering-Bronx Campus
    New York University/School of Science and Engineering-Bronx CampusBS ( conferred with combined Medical School Graduation), Philosophy/Chemistry, summa cum laude, 1972 - 1976

Certifications & Licensure

  • CT State Medical License
    CT State Medical License 1987 - 2024
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
  • The American Board of Nuclear MedicineDiplomate, American Board Of Nuclear Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Dana Neuro-Scholar Award Dana Science Foundation, 1996-1997
  • Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Grant Support

  • PTSD and Incident Cardiovascular Disease Risk in OIF/OEF VeteransDept. Veteran Affairs2014–2021
  • Neurobehavioral Correlates of Mental Stress Ischemia SupplementNIH National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute2007–2014
  • Neurobehavioral Correlates of Mental Stress IschemiaNIH National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute2007–2014
  • Depression and Coronary Disease: Prognosis and MechanismsDept. Veteran Affairs2003–2014
  • Neurobehavioral Correlates Of Mental Stress IschemiaNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute1998–2010
  • CNS Correlates of Mental Stress Induced Myocardial Ischemia in WomenCharles A. Dana Foundation, Neuroscience Research Program on Brain-Body Interaction1998–2008
  • Neurobehavioral Correlates of Mental Stress IschemiaNIH National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute R01 HL59619-041998–2007
  • CV Response To Mental Stress:Mechanistic ConsiderationsNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2003–2006

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