Aarthi Sabanayagam, MBBS, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr Sabanayagam joined the Division of Cardiology in 2020 as faculty member of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Program and Co-Director of the Cardio-Obstetrics Program. Prior to this she graduated from the ACHD fellowship program at UCSF and then went on to join the COACH program The Ohio State University and Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Columbus Ohio.

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Dr Sabanayagam graduated from Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute in 2004 after which she completed both her Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center (AECOM) New York.

Her clinical interests include caring for the growing ACHD population as well focussing on cardiovascular disorders in pregnancy.She also spends time reading performing complex transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiograms.

She is highly involved in trainee and medical student education and was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department Medicine at OSU.

Education & Training

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• Adult Congenital Heart Disease University of California San Francisco 6/2017
• Cardiovascular Medicine Montefiore Medical Center 6/2015
• Internal Medicine Residency Montefiore Medical Center 6/2008
• MBBS Medicine Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute 03/2004

Publications (10)

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Academic Medical CentersHeart Defects, CongenitalPatient PreferencePregnancy Complications, CardiovascularDisease ManagementPrenatal CareTetralogy of FallotFontan ProcedureExercise TestPregnant WomenCareer ChoiceHeart FailureHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeUltrasonography, PrenatalTriage

• Launching a career as an academic medical educator.
  Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2023 Sabanayagam A, Qasim A
• Association of Body Mass Index With Clinical Features and Outcomes in Adults With Fontan Palliation.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2023 Yogeswaran V, Anigwe C, Salahuddin A, Aggarwal A, Moon Grady AJ, Harris IS, Sabanayagam A, Kouretas PC, Mahadevan VS, Agarwal A
• Outcomes among adult survivors of total cavopulmonary Fontan palliation for single ventricle.
  Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2022 Anigwe C, Yogeswaran V, Moon-Grady A, McAllister S, Aggarwal A, Blissett S, Harris IS, Kouretas PC, Mahadevan VS, Sabanayagam A, Agarwal A
• Pulmonary vasodilators: beyond the bounds of pulmonary arterial hypertension therapy in COVID-19.
  Pulmonary circulation 2020 Franco V, Bradley EA, Badagliacca R, Sabanayagam A, Rajpal S, Lastinger LT, Daniels CJ, Smith JS, Benza RL
• Triage and management of the ACHD patient with COVID-19: A single center approach.
  International journal of cardiology 2020 Lastinger LT, Daniels CJ, Lee M, Sabanayagam A, Bradley EA

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• Management of Heart Failure in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.
  Heart failure clinics 2018 Sabanayagam A, Cavus O, Williams J, Bradley E
• Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the evaluation of liver disease in adults who have had the Fontan operation.
  Archives of cardiovascular diseases 2017 Agarwal A, Cunnington C, Sabanayagam A, Zier L, McCulloch CE, Harris IS, Foster E, Atkinson D, Bryan A, Jenkins P, Dua J, Parker MJ, Karunaratne D, Moore JA, Meadows J, Clarke B, Hoschtitzky JA, …
• Attitudes and perceptions of pregnant women with CHD: results of a single-site survey.
  Cardiology in the young 2017 Sabanayagam A, Briston D, Zaidi AN
• Observations on obesity patterns in tetralogy of Fallot patients from childhood to adulthood.
  Cardiology in the young 2016 Briston DA, Sabanayagam A, Zaidi AN
• Health Care Costs for Adults With Congenital Heart Disease in the United States 2002 to 2012.
  The American journal of cardiology 2016 Briston DA, Bradley EA, Sabanayagam A, Zaidi AN