Sean P. Pinney

Sean Patrick Pinney, M.D. is an American cardiologist and the Director of both the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.^[1]

He is an Associate Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine,^[2] the author of over 20 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and of multiple book chapters. He lectures frequently on the topic of cardiovascular disease.

Biography

Pinney was born in St. Louis, Missouri, graduating from St. Louis Priory School in 1986; he received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1990 and graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1994. He completed a residency at Deaconess Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts and was Chief Resident in Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center until 1998. He was a fellow in Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplants and Chief Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.

His practice has a primary focus on the understanding and treatment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy, a condition affecting about half of all transplant recipients by their fifth year.^[3]

Pinney is a reviewer for the medical journals The Medical Letter, Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, Transplantation and Transplant Immunology.

Awards and honors

2005 – Best Medical Grand Rounds 2004-05, Mount Sinai Medical Center
2000 – Young Investigator Award, New York Cardiological Society/New York Chapter American College of Cardiology^[4]
2000 – Cardiology Fellowship Research Award, Columbia University
1998 – Ivy DeFriez Award, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
1995 – James L. Tullis, M.D. Book Award, Deaconess Hospital
1994 – Pharmacology Research Award, Georgetown University

Memberships

Fellow, American College of Cardiology^[5]
American Heart Association
American Society of Transplantation
Heart Failure Society of America
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Pulmonary Hypertension Association
1996-1998, American College of Physicians
1995-1998, Massachusetts Medical Society
1992-1998, American Medical Association

Publications

Nagarsheth NP, Pinney S, Bassily-Marcus A, Anyanwu A, Friedman L, Beilin Y. Successful placement of a right ventricular assist device for treatment of a presumed amniotic fluid embolism. Anesth Analg 2008; 107:962-4. PMID 18713914
Filsoufi F, Rahmanian PB, Castillo JG, Pinney S, Broumand SR, Adams DH. Incidence, treatment strategies and outcome of deep sternal wound infection after orthotopic heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2007; 26:1084-90. PMID 18022072
Mancini DM, Pinney S, Burkhoff D, LaManca J, Itescu S, Burke E, Edwards N, Oz M, Marks AR. Use of rapamycin slows progression of cardiac transplantation vasculopathy. Circulation 2003; 108:48-53.
Pinney SP, Chen HJ, Liang D, Wang X, Schwartz A, Rabbani LE. Minocycline inhibits smooth muscle cell proliferation, migration and neointima formation after arterial injury. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2003; 42:469-476. PMID 14508231
Lamour JM, Hsu DT, Quaegebeur JM, Pinney SP, Mital SR, Mosca RS, Chen JM, Addonizio LJ. Heart transplantation to a physiologic single lung in patients with congenital heart disease. J Heart Lung Transplant 2004; 23:948-953. PMID 15312824
Chen JM, Davies RR, Mital SR, Mercando ML, Addonizio LJ, Pinney SP, Hsu DT, Lamour JM, Mosca RS, Quaegebeur JM. Trends and outcomes in transplantation for complex congenital heart disease 1984-2004. Ann Thorac Surg 2004; 78:1352-1361. PMID 15464499
Pinney SP, Cheema FH, Hammond K, Chen JM, Edwards NM, Mancini D. Acceptable recipient outcomes with the use of hearts from donors with hepatitis-B core antibodies. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005; 24:34-37. PMID 15653376
Woollett IF, Pinney S, Magnano AR. Balloon dilatation of coronary sinus spasm during placement of a biventricular pacing lead. Circulation 2005; 111:e304-5.
McKay M, Pinney S, Gorwara S, Burke EM, Sciacca RR, Apfelbaum M, Mancini D, Itescu S, Rabbani LE. Anti-HLA antibodies are associated with restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention for cardiac allograft vasculopathy. Transplantation 2005: 79:1581-1587.
Chen JM, Russo MJ, Hammond KM, Mancini DM, Kherani AR, Fal JM, Mazzeo PA, Pinney SP, Edwards NM, Naka Y. Alternate waiting list strategies for heart transplantation maximize donor organ utilization. Ann Thorac Surg 2005; 80:224-228. PMID 15975371
Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F, Anyanwu A, von Harbou K, Gass A, Pinney SP, Carpentier A, Adams DH. High-risk mitral valve surgery: perioperative hemodynamic optimization with nesiritide (BNP). Ann Thorac Surg 2005; 80:502-506. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.02.041 PMID 16039193
Xydas S, Rosen RS, Pinney S, Hickey KT, Wasserman H, Mancini DM, Naka Y, Oz MC, Bergmann SR, Maybaum S. Reduced myocardial blood flow during left ventricular assist device support: a possible cause of premature bypass graft closure. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005; 24:1976-1979. PMID 16297808
Lubitz SA, Baran DA, Alwarshetty MM, Pinney S, Kaplan S, Chan M, Courtney MC, Lansman SL, Spielvogel D, Gass AL. Long-term results of tacrolimus monotherapy in cardiac transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant 2006; 25:699-706. PMID 16730576
Baran DA, Alwarshetty MM, Alvi S, Arroyo LH, Lubitz S, Pinney S, Gass AL, Zucker MJ. Is toxoplasmosis prophylaxis necessary in cardiac transplantation? Long-term follow-up at 2 transplant centers. J Heart Lung Transplant 2006; 25:1380-1382. PMID 17097506
Lubitz SA, Pinney S, Wisnivesky JP, Gass A, Baran DA. Statin therapy is associated with a reduced risk of chronic renal failure after cardiac transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2007; 26:264-272.
Anyanwu AC, Fischer GW, Plotkina I, Pinney S, Adams DH. Off-pump implant of the Jarvik 2000 ventricular assist device through median sternotomy. Ann Thorac Surg 2007; 84:1405-1407. PMID 17889020
Pinney SP, Wasserman HS. Anterior myocardial infarction, acute aortic dissection and anomalous coronary artery. J Interven Cardiol 2002; 15:293-296.
Pinney SP, Daly PA. Parathyroid Cyst: an uncommon cause of a palpable neck mass and hypercalcemia. West J Med 1999; 170:118-120.
Pinney SP, Koller BS, Franz MR, Woosley RL. Terfenadine increases the QT interval in isolated guinea pig heart. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1995; 25: 30-34.

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