
Aakash Bavishi, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Sports Cardiology
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
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Research:
1: Bavishi A, Soutar M, Kurnides M, Speer H, Oyarce G, Bryde R, Lander B,
Richards K, DeMarco K, Martinez MW. Goal-Directed Versus Self-Directed Valsalva
Maneuver in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy on Cardiac Myosin
Inhibitor Therapy. JACC Adv. 2025 Jan 8;4(2):101531. doi:
10.1016/j.jacadv.2024.101531. PMID: 39886312; PMCID: PMC11780103.
2: Bavishi A, Bryde R, Soutar M, Kurnides M, Speer H, Oyarce G, Richards K,
DeMarco K, Martinez MW. Efficacy of Cardiac Myosin Inhibition in Patients After
Septal Reduction Therapy. Am J Cardiol. 2025 Jan 15;235:85-87. doi:
10.1016/j.amjcard.2024.10.026. Epub 2024 Nov 5. PMID: 39510491.
3: Bavishi A, Bryde R, Martinez MW. Late Phenotypic Expression of Hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy: When to Stop Looking? JACC Case Rep. 2024 Oct 2;29(19):102565.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102565. PMID: 39484306; PMCID: PMC11522737.
4: Slostad B, Appadurai V, Narang A, Hale S, Lehrer S, Kline A, Bavishi A,
Okwuosa I, Jankowski M, Weinberg R, Kansal M, Thomas JD, Shah S. Novel
echocardiographic pixel intensity quantification method for differentiating
transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis from light chain cardiac amyloidosis and other
phenocopies. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Oct 30;25(11):1601-1611. doi:
10.1093/ehjci/jeae095. PMID: 38581424.
5: Garg G, Appadurai V, Cheema B, Gruca M, Kinno M, Ryan J, Bavishi A, Baldridge
AS, Rigolin VH, Thomas JD, Zielinski A, Puthumana JJ. Right Ventricular
Remodeling in Elite Basketball Athletes. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023
Oct;36(10):1120-1125. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2023.06.011. Epub 2023 Jun 25. PMID:
37364756.
6: Bavishi A, Witting C, Guo J, Wu E, John J, Jankowski M, Baldridge AS, Meng D,
Maganti K. Predictive Value of Relative Apical Sparing of Longitudinal Strain on
Echocardiography for Cardiac Amyloidosis. Am J Cardiol. 2023 Aug 1;200:66-71.
doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.04.048. Epub 2023 Jun 9. PMID: 37302282.
7: Bavishi A, Kliethermes SA, Petek B, Moulson N, Mellacheruvu P, Churchill TW,
Harmon K, Patel MR, Baggish AL, Drezner JA, Mutharasan RK. Clinical spectrum of
COVID-19 complications in young adults: combined analysis of the American Heart
Association COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry and the Outcomes Registry
for Cardiac Conditions in Athletes. BMJ Open. 2023 Apr 12;13(4):e069943. doi:
10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069943. PMID: 37045581; PMCID: PMC10105915.
8: Bavishi A, Zielinski A, Stone NJ. Risk and Treatment Decisions for Primary
Prevention in the Athlete: Worth Going the Extra Mile. Am J Cardiol. 2022 Sep
15;179:129-131. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.06.054. Epub 2022 Jul 23. PMID:
35879155.
9: Bavishi A, Colangelo LA, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Lima JAC, Nannini DR,
Vaduganathan M, Pandey A, Lloyd-Jones DM, Shah SJ, Patel RB. Genetic variation
in sodium glucose co-transporter 1 and cardiac structure and function at middle
age. ESC Heart Fail. 2022 Apr;9(2):1496-1501. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.13841. Epub 2022
Feb 15. PMID: 35166069; PMCID: PMC8934939.
10: Goergen J, Bavishi A, Eimer M, Zielinski AR. COVID-19: the Risk to Athletes.
Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2021;23(11):68. doi:
10.1007/s11936-021-00941-2. Epub 2021 Oct 15. PMID: 34690485; PMCID: PMC8519743.
11: Clark JR, Hoffman SC, Shlobin NA, Bavishi A, Narang A. Incidence of
catheter-associated right atrial thrombus detected by transthoracic
echocardiogram. Echocardiography. 2021 Mar;38(3):435-439. doi:
10.1111/echo.14987. Epub 2021 Feb 1. PMID: 33523518.
12: Bavishi A, Lloyd-Jones DM, Ning H, Vu THT, Yancy CW, Shah SJ, Carnethon M,
Khan SS. Systematic examination of a heart failure risk prediction tool: The
pooled cohort equations to prevent heart failure. PLoS One. 2020 Nov
3;15(11):e0240567. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240567. PMID: 33141828; PMCID:
PMC7608925.
13: Bavishi A, Bruce M, Ning H, Freaney PM, Glynn P, Ahmad FS, Yancy CW, Shah
SJ, Allen NB, Vupputuri SX, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Lloyd-Jones DM, Khan SS.
Predictive Accuracy of Heart Failure-Specific Risk Equations in an Electronic
Health Record-Based Cohort. Circ Heart Fail. 2020 Nov;13(11):e007462. doi:
10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.120.007462. Epub 2020 Oct 23. PMID: 33092406; PMCID:
PMC7674211.
14: Bavishi A, Patel RB. Addressing Comorbidities in Heart Failure:
Hypertension, Atrial Fibrillation, and Diabetes. Heart Fail Clin. 2020
Oct;16(4):441-456. doi: 10.1016/j.hfc.2020.06.005. Epub 2020 Jul 21. PMID:
32888639; PMCID: PMC7479642.
15: Glynn PA, Ning H, Bavishi A, Freaney PM, Shah S, Yancy CW, Lloyd-Jones DM,
Khan SS. Heart Failure Risk Distribution and Trends in the United States
Population, NHANES 1999-2016. Am J Med. 2021 Mar;134(3):e153-e164. doi:
10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.07.025. Epub 2020 Aug 20. PMID: 32827468; PMCID:
PMC7895865.
16: Kong NW, Bavishi A, Amaral AP, Tibrewala A, Jivan A, Silberman P, Stone NJ.
Risk Differences in Secondary Prevention Patients Who Present With Acute
Coronary Syndrome and Implications of Guideline-Directed Cholesterol Management.
Am J Cardiol. 2020 Oct 15;133:1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2020.07.039. Epub 2020
Jul 24. PMID: 32807385; PMCID: PMC8130011.
17: Alder M, Bavishi A, Zumpf K, Peterson J, Stone NJ. A Meta-Analysis Assessing
Additional LDL-C Reduction from Addition of a Bile Acid Sequestrant to Statin
Therapy. Am J Med. 2020 Nov;133(11):1322-1327. doi:
10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.03.056. Epub 2020 May 13. PMID: 32416177.
18: Diaz CL, Kaplan RM, Peigh G, Bavishi A, Baman JR, Trivedi A, Shen MJ,
Sattayaprasert P, Wasserlauf J, Arora R, Chicos AB, Kim S, Lin A, Verma N,
Knight BP, Passman RS. Improvement in renal function following cryoballoon
ablation for atrial fibrillation. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2021
Apr;60(3):513-520. doi: 10.1007/s10840-019-00690-0. Epub 2020 May 15. PMID:
32415554; PMCID: PMC9351706.
19: Nissen AP, Truong VTT, Alhafez BA, Puthumana JJ, Estrera AL, Body SC,
Prakash SK; BAVCon Investigators; GenTAC Registry Investigators. Surgical repair
of bicuspid aortopathy at small diameters: Clinical and institutional factors. J
Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Jun;159(6):2216-2226.e2. doi:
10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.06.103. Epub 2019 Aug 22. PMID: 31543305; PMCID:
PMC7035185.
20: Peigh G, Kaplan RM, Bavishi A, Diaz CL, Baman JR, Matiasz R, Trivedi A,
Sattayaprasert P, Wasserlauf J, Shen MJ, Potpara TS, Chicos AB, Arora R, Kim S,
Lin A, Verma N, Knight BP, Passman RS. A novel risk model for very late return
of atrial fibrillation beyond 1 year after cryoballoon ablation: the SCALE-
CryoAF score. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2020 Aug;58(2):209-217. doi:
10.1007/s10840-019-00588-x. Epub 2019 Jul 20. PMID: 31327104; PMCID: PMC7025863.
21: Baman JR, Kaplan RM, Diaz CL, Peigh G, Bavishi AA, Trivedi A, Wasserlauf J,
Chicos AB, Arora R, Kim S, Lin A, Verma N, Knight BP, Passman RS.
Characterization of atrial flutter after pulmonary vein isolation by cryoballoon
ablation. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2020 Mar;57(2):233-240. doi:
10.1007/s10840-019-00560-9. Epub 2019 May 17. PMID: 31102114; PMCID: PMC7025862.
22: Bavishi AA, Kaplan RM, Peigh G, Diaz CL, Baman JR, Trivedi A, Wasserlauf J,
Shen MJ, Sattayaprasert P, Chicos AB, Kim S, Verma N, Arora R, Lin A, Knight BP,
Passman RS. Patient characteristics as predictors of recurrence of atrial
fibrillation following cryoballoon ablation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2019
Jun;42(6):694-704. doi: 10.1111/pace.13669. Epub 2019 Apr 9. PMID: 30912155;
PMCID: PMC7025864.
23: Bavishi A, Lima K, Choudhury L. A New Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Non-
Compaction in a Patient Presenting with Acute Heart Failure. J Radiol Case Rep.
2018 Jul 31;12(7):10-15. doi: 10.3941/jrcr.v12i7.3351. PMID: 30651913; PMCID:
PMC6311176.
24: Bavishi A, Howard T, Kim JP, Hiramoto B, Pierce JB, Mendapara P, Alhalel J,
Wu HW, Srdanovich N, Stone NJ. Treatment Gap in Primary Prevention Patients
Presenting With Acute Coronary Syndrome. Am J Cardiol. 2019 Feb
1;123(3):368-374. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.10.034. Epub 2018 Nov 7. PMID:
30497653.
25: Bavishi A, Howard T, Rosen A, Stone NJ. Sudden Creatine Kinase Elevation
When an Athlete Starts Boxing: Looking Deeper Prior to Knocking the Statin Out.
Am J Med. 2018 Aug;131(8):e333-e334. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.03.016. Epub
2018 Apr 9. PMID: 29649457.
26: You C, Sharma S, Bavishi A, Groh CA, Alia Y, Saour B, Passman R. Dialytic
interval and the timing of electrocardiographic screening for subcutaneous
cardioverter-defibrillator placement in chronic hemodialysis patients. J Interv
Card Electrophysiol. 2018 Jul;52(2):179-184. doi: 10.1007/s10840-018-0343-1.
Epub 2018 Mar 10. PMID: 29525912.
27: Howard TM, Bavishi AA, Stone NJ. A New HOPE? Lessons from Heart Outcomes
Prevention Evaluation-3. Am J Med. 2018 Feb;131(2):134-140. doi:
10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.10.012. Epub 2017 Oct 23. PMID: 29074093.
28: Bavishi AA, Grammer LC, Pongracic J, Rychlik K, Kumar R, Zee P, Greenberger
PA, Fishbein AB. Diurnal variations in subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy
reactions. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2017 Jan;118(1):103-107. doi:
10.1016/j.anai.2016.10.007. Epub 2016 Nov 15. PMID: 27864091.
29: Fishbein AB, Vitaterna O, Haugh IM, Bavishi AA, Zee PC, Turek FW, Sheldon
SH, Silverberg JI, Paller AS. Nocturnal eczema: Review of sleep and circadian
rhythms in children with atopic dermatitis and future research directions. J
Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Nov;136(5):1170-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.08.028.
PMID: 26549635.
Education
Medical School : Northwestern University of Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency : Northwestern Univeristy
Fellowship : Northwestern University
Advanced Echocardiography: Columbia University
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy/ Sports Cardiology: Morristown Atlantic Health