University of California San Francisco | About UCSF | UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Search Site | Find a Doctor
Print this page
FONT SIZE
Home > Doctors > Yerem Yeghiazarians

Yerem Yeghiazarians, M.D.

Interventional cardiologist

Dr. Yerem Yeghiazarians is co-director of the Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, director of the Peripheral Interventional Cardiology Program and director of the UCSF Translational Cardiac Stem Cell Program. He is an expert in managing patients with coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndromes, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, patent foramen ovale and peripheral arterial diseases.

Yeghiazarians earned an undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, where he was chief medical resident and an instructor in medicine. He also completed general and interventional adult cardiology training at Brigham and Women's Hospital. At UCSF, he is an associate professor of cardiology.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Cardiovascular Care and Prevention Center at Mission Bay
535 Mission Bay Blvd. South
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 353-2873
Fax: (415) 353-2528

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

More about Yerem Yeghiazarians

Additional Languages

Armenian
French
Persian

Education

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1995

Residencies

Brigham and Women's Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Internal Medicine 1998

Fellowships

Brigham and Women's Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Cardiology 2003

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Angeli FS, Zhang Y, Sievers R, Jun K, Yim S, Boyle A, Yeghiazarians Y. Injection of human bone marrow and mononuclear cell extract into infarcted mouse hearts results in functional improvement. Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2012; 6:38-43.
  2. Ye J, Boyle A, Shih H, Sievers RE, Zhang Y, Prasad M, Su H, Zhou Y, Grossman W, Bernstein HS, Yeghiazarians Y. Sca-1 cardiosphere-derived cells are enriched for isl1-expressing cardiac precursors and improve cardiac function after myocardial injury. PLoS One. 2012; 7(1):e30329.
  3. Yeghiazarians Y, Gaur M, Zhang Y, Sievers RE, Ritner C, Prasad M, Boyle A, Bernstein HS. Myocardial improvement with human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes enriched by p38MAPK inhibition. Cytotherapy. 2012 Feb; 14(2):223-31.
  4. Aschbacher K, Chen Q, Varga M, Haddad DJ, Yeghiazarians Y, Epel E, Wolkowitz OM, Springer ML. Higher fasting glucose levels are associated with reduced circulating angiogenic cell migratory capacity among healthy individuals. Am J Cardiovasc Dis. 2012; 2(1):12-9.
  5. Chen S, Law CS, Grigsby CL, Olsen K, Hong TT, Zhang Y, Yeghiazarians Y, Gardner DG. Cardiomyocyte-specific deletion of the vitamin D receptor gene results in cardiac hypertrophy. Circulation. 2011 Oct 25; 124(17):1838-47.
  6. Wang X, Takagawa J, Lam VC, Haddad DJ, Tobler DL, Mok PY, Zhang Y, Clifford BT, Pinnamaneni K, Saini SA, Su R, Bartel MJ, Sievers RE, Carbone L, Kogan S, Yeghiazarians Y, Hermiston M, Springer ML. Donor myocardial infarction impairs the therapeutic potential of bone marrow cells by an interleukin-1-mediated inflammatory response. Sci Transl Med. 2011 Sep 14; 3(100):100ra90.
  7. Boyle AJ, Yeghiazarians Y, Shih H, Hwang J, Ye J, Sievers R, Zheng D, Palasubramaniam J, Palasubramaniam D, Karschimkus C, Whitbourn R, Jenkins A, Wilson AM. Myocardial production and release of MCP-1 and SDF-1 following myocardial infarction: differences between mice and man. J Transl Med. 2011; 9:150.
  8. Koskenvuo JW, Mirsky R, Zhang Y, Helenius H, Angeli FS, De Marco T, Boyle AJ, Yeghiazarians Y. Evidence of diminished coronary flow in pulmonary hypertension: explaining angina pectoris in this patient group? Clin Physiol Funct Imaging. 2011 Nov; 31(6):477-84.
  9. Ng R, Yeghiazarians Y. Post Myocardial Infarction Cardiogenic Shock: A Review of Current Therapies. J Intensive Care Med. 2011 Jul 11.
  10. Lao D, Parasher PS, Cho KC, Yeghiazarians Y. Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis--diagnosis and treatment. Mayo Clin Proc. 2011 Jul; 86(7):649-57.
  11. Mirsky R, Jahn S, Koskenvuo JW, Sievers RE, Yim SM, Ritner C, Bernstein HS, Angeli FS, Boyle AJ, De Marco T, Yeghiazarians Y. Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension with circulating angiogenic cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2011 Jul; 301(1):L12-9.
  12. Boyle AJ, Shih H, Hwang J, Ye J, Lee B, Zhang Y, Kwon D, Jun K, Zheng D, Sievers R, Angeli F, Yeghiazarians Y, Lee R. Cardiomyopathy of aging in the mammalian heart is characterized by myocardial hypertrophy, fibrosis and a predisposition towards cardiomyocyte apoptosis and autophagy. Exp Gerontol. 2011 Jul; 46(7):549-59.
  13. Glenn DJ, Wang F, Nishimoto M, Cruz MC, Uchida Y, Holleran WM, Zhang Y, Yeghiazarians Y, Gardner DG. A murine model of isolated cardiac steatosis leads to cardiomyopathy. Hypertension. 2011 Feb; 57(2):216-22.
  14. Hoffmayer KS, Zellner C, Kwan DM, Konety S, Foster E, Moore P, Yeghiazarians Y. Closure of a para-valvular aortic leak: with the use of 2 AMPLATZER devices and real-time 2- and 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. Tex Heart Inst J. 2011; 38(1):81-4.
  15. Angeli FS, Amabile N, Shapiro M, Mirsky R, Bartlett L, Zhang Y, Virmani R, Chatterjee K, Boyle A, Grossman W, Yeghiazarians Y. Cytokine combination therapy with erythropoietin and granulocyte colony stimulating factor in a porcine model of acute myocardial infarction. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2010 Dec; 24(5-6):409-20.
  16. Ochoa VM, Yeghiazarians Y. Subclavian artery stenosis: a review for the vascular medicine practitioner. Vasc Med. 2011 Feb; 16(1):29-34.
  17. Zellner C, Ports TA, Yeghiazarians Y, Boyle AJ. Sterile radial artery granuloma after transradial procedures: a unique and avoidable complication. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2010 Nov 1; 76(5):673-6.
  18. Yong CM, Sharma M, Ochoa V, Abnousi F, Roberts J, Bass NM, Niemann CU, Shiboski S, Prasad M, Tavakol M, Ports TA, Gregoratos G, Yeghiazarians Y, Boyle AJ. Multivessel coronary artery disease predicts mortality, length of stay, and pressor requirements after liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2010 Nov; 16(11):1242-8.
  19. Zellner C, Yeghiazarians Y, Ports TA, Ursell P, Boyle AJ. Sterile radial artery granuloma after transradial cardiac catheterization. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2011 May-Jun; 12(3):187-9.
  20. Patel MR, Jneid H, Derdeyn CP, Klein LW, Levine GN, Lookstein RA, White CJ, Yeghiazarians Y, Rosenfield K. Arteriotomy closure devices for cardiovascular procedures: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2010 Nov 2; 122(18):1882-93.

Publications are derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and provided by UCSF Profiles, a service of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. Researchers can make corrections and additions by logging on to UCSF Profiles.

Home • Terms of Use • Site Map • Contact Us       © 2002 - 2012 The Regents of The University of California