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Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, MACC is Professor of Medicine and Philip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Chair in Cardiology, and the Director of Cadiovascular Imaging Program in the Mount Sinai’s Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health. He is the Associate Dean for Global Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

Life and Career
After completing his cardiology fellowship training and PhD (Cardiovascular Immunology) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, Dr. Narula relocated to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School in 1989. At MGH, Dr. Narula completed cardiology, heart failure & transplantation, and nuclear cardiology fellowships and joined the cardiology faculty. In 1997, he moved to Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, where he was Thomas J. Vischer Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Cardiology, Vice-Chairman of the department of Internal Medicine, and Director of Heart Failure & Transplantation Center. He subsequently joined University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (2003) as Chief of the Division of Cardiology, Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the Cardiovascular Center of the UC Irvine’s Douglas Hospital. He was also the Director of Memorial Heart & Vascular Institute, Long Beach Memorial Hospital, and Medical Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology in UC Irvine’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering.

Honors and Awards

 * 2013	Master of the American College of Cardiology
 * 2012	American College of Cardiology, The Gifted Educator Award
 * 2012	American College of Cardiology, Innovators of CV Medicine (Imaging)
 * 2011	American Heart Association, Orange County, Distinguished Scientist Award: Heart Hero
 * 2010	James Seward & Jamil Tajik Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Imaging, Mayo Clinic
 * 2007 	Physician of the Year Award, Indian Medical, Association of California, Anaheim
 * 2007-2009	President, American Heart Association, Orange County, California
 * 2005-2008	American Heart Association, National Leadership Council
 * 2001	Best Teacher Award, Drexel University College of Medicine; Division of Cardiology

Clinical Focus
Dr. Narula has the unique distinction of being able to combine molecular and subcellular pathology and imaging with clinical imaging of the failing myocardium and high-risk coronary atherosclerotic plaques to develop novel strategies for prevention of cardiovascular disease and promotion of cardiovascular health in developed as well as developing countries. He has specifically contributed to two major areas including heart muscle cell apoptosis in heart failure, and lipid-rich atherosclerotic plaques that are susceptible to rupture and acute coronary events. He has brought novel experimental strategies to bedside and defined their applicability at the community level. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology : Cardiovascular Imaging. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Global Heart (the official Journal of World Heart Federation). He is currently actively involved in population-based heart attack prevention programs including HAPPY [Heart Attack Prevention Program for You]. He has served on the Advisory Council on Global Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences.

Scientific Investigator and Educator
His research has been funded, in part, by the grants from National Institutes of Health. He is considered to be a true translationist and one of the infrequent investigators who has the distinction of publishing in the best basic science and the best clinical journals including Science, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Circulation (journal) and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. With more than 800 original research publications or presentations to his credit and more than 30 books or journal supplements edited, Dr. Narula has been awarded as ‘the best young investigator’ on several occasions for his research contributions. His mentoring prowess is exemplified by the fact that 20 of his fellows, working in his research laboratory, have been awarded young investigator awards; he was recently awarded as the Best Educator by the American College of Cardiology. He was also announced as one of the five Innovators in Cardiovascular Medicine in the year 2012, and was honored as the Master of the American College of Cardiology in March 2013.

U.S. Patent Awards/Applications

 * US Patent #5780052; European Patent 96912764.6-2114 Awarded: Composition and methods useful for inhibiting cell death and for delivering an agent into a cell, Co-Inventors: Ban-An Khaw, Vladimir Torchilin, Imran Vural
 * US Patent Application #6451980; Awarded Signal enhancement of dispecific antibody-polymer probe for immunoassay use; Co-Inventor: Ban-An Khaw
 * US Patent Application; Filed Feb 21, 2001 Characterization of microbial deposition and immune response at basement membranes and methods relating thereto, Co-Inventors: E. William Rosenberg, Patricia Noah, Robert B. Skinner, Jr., Timothy D. Mandrell
 * US Patent Application; Filed Jun 12, 2002 Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutic and imaging agents to stressed and apoptotic cells using annexin V as targeting vector, Co-Inventors: Francis Blankenberg, H. W. Strauss, John Tait

Books and Editorial

 * Jul 2007-Jun 2017 - Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American College of Cardiology-Cardiovascular Imaging, Publisher: Elsevier, Editorial Office: San Diego, CA
 * Jul 2011-Jun 2016 - Editor-in-Chief, Global Heart-Official Journal of World Heart Federation, Publisher: Elsevier, Editorial Office: London, UK
 * Nov 2003 – Present - Associate Editor, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Publisher: Elsevier, Editorial Office: San Diego, CA
 * Jul 2007–Jan 2011 - Consulting Editor, Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports, Publisher: Springer, Editorial Office: Philadelphia, PA
 * Jan 2004–Sep 2007 - Founding Editor, Heart Failure Clinics of North America, Publisher: Elsevier, Editorial Office: Philadelphia, PA, Co-Editor: James B. Young
 * 1998–2003 - Section Editor: Molecular Biology & Imaging, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Publisher: Mosby, Editorial Office: New Haven, CT
 * 2006 - Guest Associate Editor: Cardiology
 * Jul 2003–Oct 2003 - Guest Associate Editor, Journal of American College of Cardiology

Editorial Boards of Journals
Dr. Narula served on the following editorial boards:
 * 2011		European Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
 * 2006		Cardiology
 * 2003 	Journal of Nuclear Medicine
 * 2003 	European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
 * 2002 	American Journal of Cardiology
 * 2002 	Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
 * 2001 - 2005	Indian Heart Journal
 * 1998 	Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
 * 1998 - 2004	Apoptosis

Reviewer for Journals
Dr. Narula served as a reviewer for the following journals:
 * Nature Medicine
 * New England Journal of Medicine
 * Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences
 * Annals of Internal Medicine
 * Circulation
 * Circulation Research
 * Journal of American College of Cardiology
 * American Journal of Cardiology
 * American Heart Journal
 * American Journal of Physiology
 * American Journal of Pathology
 * Journal of Molecular & Cellular Cardiology
 * Journal of Nuclear Medicine
 * Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
 * Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
 * Journal of Biomedical Optics
 * Laboratory Investigation
 * Apoptosis
 * European Heart Journal
 * European Journal of Nuclear Medicine
 * FASEB (Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology)
 * International Journal of Cardiology