Curriculum Vitae
Rashid M. Ahmad, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
VanderbiltUniversity
2986 Vanderbilt Clinic
NashvilleTN37232
Phone: (615) 343-9192 e-mail:
AppointmentsAssistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, VanderbiltUniversity, 8/2002 – Present.
Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Director, Cardiac Surgery Informatics
Section Chief Cardiac Surgery, NashvilleVA, 8/2002 – 8/2004.
Cardiothoracic SurgeryBoard Eligible, Thoracic Surgery.
Administrative Chief Resident, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 7/2001 – 6/2002.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 7/1999 – 6/2002.
General SurgeryDiplomate, American Board of Surgery, Sept. 2000.
Chief Resident, The New YorkHospital-PresbyterianHospital, 7/98 – 6/99.
Assistant Surgeon, The New YorkHospital, 7/1/92 - 6/30/94; 7/1/96 - 6/30/98.
Research FellowshipCardiac Research Fellow at the Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, HarvardMedicalSchool, 6/94 – 6/96.
Medical EducationCollege of Physicians and Surgeons, ColumbiaUniversity, May 1992.
College EducationReceived Sc.B. magna cum laudefrom BrownUniversity with Honors in Mathematics-Computer Science, May 1988.
H.S. EducationStuyvesantHigh School, 1984.
Honors & AwardsAmerican Heart Association travel award, October 2001.
Titus Munson Coan Prize for best biological paper, May 1992.
Alpha Omega Alpha Research Fellowship for computer modeling of segmental wall motion using finite element analysis, March '91.
Roche Laboratories Award for Excellence in Clinical Science Research, Medical Student Division, 2nd Place, Galveston, Texas, April 1990.
Dean's NIH Summer Research Fellowship, June '89 - Aug '89.
National Scholar, BrownUniversity, 1984.
Educational Achievement Award: Society of American-Pakistani Professionals, 1987.
Daniel and Rita Fraad Scholarship, BrownUniversity, 1985 - 1987.
Summer Research Assistantship, Dept of Biology and Medicine, Brown Univ, 1985.
National Merit Scholar, 1984.
Honors in the National Westinghouse Competition, 1984.
Bausch & Lomb Science Medal, 1984.
Eberly Trophy for Scholar-Athlete, 1984.
United States Army Reserve National Scholar/Athlete Award, 1984.
Cornell Society of Engineers Award for Ingenuity in Mathematics and Science, 1983.
Clinical TrialsNHLBI STICH trial, Lead Surgeon, VanderbiltUniversityMedicalCenter.
Hospital CommitteesCardiovascular Database Task Force
MedicalCenter Medical Board, VanderbiltUniversityMedicalCenter.
MembershipsAdvisory Member, National Workgroup on Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
American Medical Association.
H. William Scott, Jr. Society.
PublicationsAhmad RM, Gillinov AM, , McCarthy P, Blackstone E, Apperson-Hansen C, Qin J, Agler D, Shiota T, Cosgrove DM. Annular geometry and motion in human ischemic mitral regurgitation: novel assessment with three-dimensional echocardiography and computer reconstruction. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Dec 78(6):2063-8, 2004.
Chen FY, Aklog L, deGuzman BJ, Ahmad, RM, Laurence RG, Couper GS, Cohn, McMahon TA. An engineering model of dynamic cardiomyoplasty. II. Clinical applications. Ann Biomed Eng. 1998 May-Jun;26(3):454-61.
deGuzman BJ, Lautz DB, Chen FY, Laurence RG, Ahmad RM, Horvath KA, Cohn LH. Thoracoscopic Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 64, 1997.
Chen FY, deGuzman BJ, Aklog L, Lautz DB, Ahmad RM, Laurence RG, Couper GS, Cohn, LH and McMahon TA. Decreased Myocardial Oxygen Consumption Indices in Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty. Circulation (Suppl), 1996.
Ahmad R, Spotnitz HM. Computer Visualization of Left Ventricular Geometry during the Cardiac Cycle. Computers and Biomedical Research, 25, 1992.
AbstractsFerzoco S, Ahmad R, Reul R, Laurence R, Sayeed-Shah U, Mesana T, Karamichalis J, Couper G, Cohn L. Partial Left Ventriculectomy Improves Cardiac Hemodynamics in Experimental Dilated Cardiomyopathy. World Congress Heart Failure, May 1997.
Zlotnick AY, Ahmad RM, Reul RM, Laurence RG, Aretz HT, Cohn LH. Neovascularization Occurs at the Site of Closed Laser Channels After Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization. Surgical Forum vol. XLVII1996.
Reul RM, Briscoe DM, Zlotnick AY, Ahmad RM, Laurence RG, Cohn LH, Couper GS. Dynamic Endothelial Cell Expression of E- and P-Selectins, ICAM-1, and VCAM-1 Immediately Following Heterotopic Cardiac Transplantation. Surgical Forum vol. XLVII1996.
Lautz DB, deGuzman BJ, Chen FY, Ahmad RM, Laurence RG, Cohn LH. The Tension-Length Relationship in Trained Latissimus Dorsi Muscle. Surgical Forum vol. XLVII1995.
Lautz DB, deGuzman BJ, Ahmad RM, Chen FY, Aklog L, Laurence RG, Cohn LH. Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty Decreases Myocardial Oxygen Consumption. American Heart Association 68th Scientific Sessions Abstract Forum1995.
(Gln) Metabolism in the Healing Wound. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (Supplement)10:10s, 1986.
Albina J, King P, Henry W, Ahmad R, Goldstein L, Caldwell M., M.D., Ph.D.,Intracellular (ICGln) and Glutamine Synthetase Activity (GSA) in Wounded Rat Skeletal Muscle. Proceedings of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 45:546, 1986.
CME Presentations
February 2004Surgical Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation. Cardiology 2004: Advances in Science and Practice, VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, TN.
October 2003Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure, GatewayMedicalCenter, Clarksville, TN.
April 2003Full Spectrum Adult Cardiac Surgery, MiddleTennesseMedicalCenter, Murfreesboro, TN.
October 2002Repair of Functional Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Alters Annulus Size And Motion, GatewayMedicalCenter, Clarksville, TN.
September 2002Repair of Functional Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Alters Annulus Size And Motion, Johnson City, TN.
Patient EducationUnderstanding Heart Failure, Krames Publishing, 2003
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery-DVD, Krames Publishing, 2003
Understanding Coronary Heart Valve Surgery, Krames Publishing, 2003
CopyrightsMitral3D - A computer program for three dimensional reconstruction of mitral annulus and geometric analysis. Copyright 2002.
DAQ - A computer program for real-time acquisition and display of cardiac parameters with display of pressure-volume loops, Copyright 1997.
Tachycardia - A computer program for visualization of a contracting left ventricle based on the parameters of the cardiac cycle. Copyright 1992.
Research
Mar '94 to May '96Developed computerized data acquisition of hemodynamic parameters including EKG, flow, aortic and left ventricular pressures, dP/dt and left ventricular volume. Analysis of ventricular performance based on Emax, PRSW, and MVO2.
Laboratory research included transmyocardial laser revascularization, dynamic cardiomyoplasty, and development of chronic model of dilated cardiomyopathy.
June '89 to Dec '89Designed and created three dimensional computer model of left ventricular geometry. Cardiac cycle parameters such as mass, EF, EDV, and diastole to systole time ratio are utilized.
Jan '87 to May '88Designed and created VECTOR, a menu-driven graphics program on the Apollo and Sun UNIX workstations as part of the Honors Thesis. The computer program is currently being used at BrownUniversity to give students an intuitive understanding of principles of vector calculus.
May '87 to May '88Designed and produced two scientific visualizations, Guanidinium Transport Through the Gramicidin Channel and Guanidinium Interactions in the Gramicidin Channel. Both shown at conference in Jerusalem, Israel, 1988. Work done with David Busath, M.D.
May '85 to July '85Surgical Research Assistant, Rhode IslandHospital. Under supervision of Jorge Albina, M.D., performed assays to determine level of glutamine synthetase activity in hindlimb muscle of wounded rat.
June '83 to Nov '83Cultured Hep-2 cells, infected and harvested herpes simplex virus type I, and performed plaque assays to determine survival curves. Worked under Clifford Selsky, M.D., Ph.D., at Long IslandUniversity. Investigating the Survival of Herpes Simplex Virus Type I Irradiated with Short-Wave Ultraviolet Light entered in National Westinghouse Competition,43rd Annual National Science Talent Search.