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Masri, Carolina S

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S. CAROLINA MASRI, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Washington Medical Center
1959 NE Pacific Street
Campus Box 356422
Seattle, WA 98195-6422

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Cardiac Imaging Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 2008-2009
Cardiology Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2005-2008
Internal Medicine Residency, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2002-2005
Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Fellowship, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 2001-2002
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 1999-2001
Echocardiography Superior Course, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995
Cardiology Board Certification-Superior Course of Cardiology (score 9 out of 10) University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1992-1994
Cardiology Residency, University Hospital Cosme Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991-1994
Internal Medicine Residency, University Hospital Juan A. Fernández, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1989-1991
MD, University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983-1989
BS. Mariano Moreno College, Mar del Plate, Argentina, 1977-1981

BOARD CERTIFICATION

American Board of Internal Medicine: Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, 2010
National Board of Echocardiography, 2009
American Board of Internal Medicine: Cardiovascular Disease, 2008
American Board of Internal Medicine: Internal Medicine, 2005

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

General Cardiology
Echocardiography
Advanced Heart Failure Management
Ventricular Assist Device and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Heart Transplantation

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Teaching Award, University of Minnesota Cardiology Fellowship, 2013
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Peskin Memorial Award, 2002
Argentine Ministry of Education Scholarship for Overseas Projects, 1999

Selected Publications

Prins K, Masri C, Colvin-Adams M, Eckman P. Characterization of 25+ year surviror of cardiac transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2013 May; 32(5):560-2

Kawel, N, Turkbey, E, Carr, J, Eng J, Gomes, A, Hundley, G, Johnson,C , Masri, SC et al. "Normal Left Ventricular Myocardial Thickness for Middle Aged and Older Subjects with SSFP Cardiac MR: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis." Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 5:500-508, 2012.

Sattiraju, S., Masri, S., Liao, K., & Missov, E. (2012). Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography of a Thrombus Entrapped by a Patent Foramen Ovale. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 94(4), e101-e102.

Masri C., Chandrashekhar Y, Apoptosis: a potentially reversible, meta-stable state of the heart. Heart Failure Reviews, 2008; 2:175-179.

Masri SC, Yamani MH, Fink MA, Young JB, Bond M et al. Sustained apoptosis in human allografts despite histological resolution of rejection. Transplantation 2003; 76 , (5):859-864.

Yamani MH, Yang J, Masri SC, Ratliff NB, Bond M, Starling RC, McCarthy P, Young JB. Acute Cellular Rejection Following Human Heart Transplantation is Associated with increased Expression of Vitronectin Receptor (Integrin αVβ3). American Journal of Transplantation 2002; 2:129-133.