Draft:Robert A. Chahine

Robert A. Chahine (born 1942) is an American-Lebanese Academic,cardiologist and political activist, mostly known for his work on the delineation and treatment of coronary artery spasm, unstable angina and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy..

Early Life and Education
Robert A. Chahine was born in Beirut, Lebanon. His father, Antoine Chahine (Arabic:انطون شاهين), was a Lebanese-Colombian businessman and banker.

Chahine completed his medical doctor degree from the American University of Beirut and went on to complete post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Miami, Harvard Medical School , Baylor College of Medicine and UCLA

Medical Career
Chahine's contributions to the field of cardiovascular disease are mostly known for his work on the delineation and treatment of coronary artery spasm, unstable angina and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy..

He was dean of the faculty of Medical Sciences at the Lebanese University between 1996 and 1999.

He has taught at the UCLA School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine, where he tenured a full professorship.

He was chief of cardiology at the VAMC in Houston and the University of Miami VAMC.

Social and Political Activism
Chahine founded the American Lebanese Foundation  and was its president from 2004 to 2019.

Marriage
Chahine is married to Colombian American Ms. Martha Rodriguez.

Recognition
He has qualified for fellowship of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians, and has been elected as fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Council on Circulation and the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association.

Chahine has an endowed scholarship in his name at the American University of Beirut.

Notable Published Work

 * Chahine, R: “Pitfalls in the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess”. Lebanese Medical Journal 22:621-632, 1969.
 * Chahine, R., Castellanos, A. Jr: “Myocardial toxicity produced by Despiramine overdosage”. Chest 50:566-568, 1971. 
 * Castellanos, A. Jr., Chahine, R., Chapunoff, E., Gomez, J., and Portillo, B: “Diagnosis of left anterior hemiblock in the presence of inferior wall myocardial infarction”. Chest 60:543-551, 1971.
 * Chahine, R., Grollman, J: “Epstein's anomaly of the tricuspid valve associated with persistent left superior vena cava draining into the left atrium”. Angiology 24:216-221, 1973.
 * Abbasi, A., Chahine, R., MacAlpin, R., Kattus, A: “Ultrasound in the diagnosis of primary congestive cardiomyopathy”. Chest 63:937-942, 1973. 
 * Chahine, R., Grollman, J: “A new technique for selective coronary arteriography”. Radiology 197:659-661, 1973.
 * Cohn, P., Gorlin, R., Adams, D., Chahine, R., Vokonas, P., Herman, M: “Comparison of biplane and single plane left ventriculograms in patients with coronary artery disease”. American Journal of Cardiology 33:1-6, 1974. 
 * Madias, J., Chahine, R., Gorlin, R., Blacklow, D: “A comparison of transmural and non-transmural acute myocardial infarction”. Circulation 49:498-507, 1974. 
 * Cohen, M., Chahine, R., Klein, M., Gorlin, R: “The effect of acetyl strophanthidin on systolic time intervals in the non-failing human heart”. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 191:487-495, 1974.
 * Mathur, V., Guinn, G., Anastassiades, L., Chahine, R., Korompai, F., Montero, A., Luchi, R: “Surgical treatment for stable angina pectoris”. New England Journal of Medicine 292:709-713, 1975.
 * Chahine, R., Raizner, A., Luchi, R: “Coronary arterial spasm in classic angina pectoris”. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 1:337-342, 1975.
 * Chahine, R., Raizner, A., Ishimori, T., Luchi, R., McIntosh H: “The incidence and clinical implications of coronary artery spasm” . Circulation 52:972-978, 1975.
 * Chahine, R., Raizner, A: “The mechanism of hypotension following angiography”. Investigative Radiology 11:472-478, 1976. 
 * Chahine, R., Raizner, A., Ishimori, T: “The clinical significance of exercise induced ST segment elevation”. Circulation 54:209-213, 1976. 
 * Ishimori, T., Raizner, A., Chahine, R., Awdeh, M., Luchi, R: “Myocardial bridges in man. Clinical correlations and accentuation by Nitroglycerin.”Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 3:59-65, 1977.
 * Raizner, A., Ishimori, T., Chahine, R: “Recurrent catheter induced coronary artery spasm”.  Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 3:187-194, 1977.
 * Welton, D., Young, J., Gentry, L., Raizner, A., Alexander, J., Chahine, R., Miller, R: “Recurrent infective endocarditis: Analysis of predisposing factors and clinical features”. American Journal of Medicine 66:932-938, 1979. 
 * Chahine, R: “The provocation of coronary artery spasm”. (Editorial) By invitation. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 6:1-5, 1980. 
 * Mueller, H., Chahine, R.: “Interim report of multicenter double-blind placebo controlled studies of nifedipine in chronic stable angina”. Am J Med 71:645-657, 1981. 
 * Zacca, N., Verani, M., Chahine, R., Miller, R.: “Effect of nifedipine on exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction and myocardial hypoperfusion in stable angina”. American Journal of Cardiology 50:689-695, 1982. 
 * Chahine, R.: Coronary Artery Spasm: Historical perspective. Chapter 1 in “Coronary Artery Spasm”. pp 1-9 R. A. Chahine, Editor.  Futura Publishing Co., Mount Kisco, N.Y.  1983. 
 * Palomo, A., Schrager, B., Chahine, R.: “Anomalous separate origin of the septal perforator coronary artery from the left sinus of Valsalva”. Catheterization & Cardiovascular Diagnoses 10:385-388, 1984.
 * Chahine, R.: “Coronary artery spasm: The pendulum continues swinging”. Journal of American College of Cardiology 7:446-448, 1986.
 * Karim, A., Chahine, R., Raizner, A.: “Dynamic coronary thrombosis: A possible cause of Prinzmetal's variant angina”. Journal of Interventional Cardiology 3:27-31, 1990.
 * Chahine, R.: “Surgical versus medical therapy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Is the perspective changing?” JACC 17:643-645, 1991.
 * Topaz, O., DeMarchena, E., Perin, E., Sommer, L., Mallon, S., Chahine, R.: “Anomalous coronary arteries: Angiographic findings in 80 patients”. International Journal of Cardiology 34:129-138, 1992. 
 * Chahine, R., Feldman, R., Weiss, R., Giles, T., Nicod, P., Raizner, A., Vanov, S.: “Randomized placebo-controlled trial of amlodipine in vasospastic angina”. Journal American College of Cardiology 21:1365-1370, 1993.

Books

 * Chahine, R.: “Coronary Artery Spasm.” Futura Publishing Co., Mount Kisco, N.Y., 1983.