Krishna Pundi, MD
ACGME FELLOW
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Pundiʼs research interest is in combining traditional epidemiologic approaches of understanding disease with novel methods of data acquisition to define clinical, demographic, and arrhythmia morphology features that predict cardiovascular events and death. Following internal medicine residency, Dr. Pundi received a combined appointment as a clinical instructor in hospital medicine and a post-doctoral research fellow for the ENHANCE-AF clinical trial as part of the AHAʼs Strategically Focused Research Networks. In 2022, he was awarded an ACC/Bristol Myers Squibb Research Fellowship Award to study the practice variation and treatment outcomes for patients with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia.

• Dronedarone Versus Sotalol in Antiarrhythmic Drug-Naive Veterans With Atrial Fibrillation.
  Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology 2023 Pundi K, Fan J, Kabadi S, Din N, Blomström-Lundqvist C, Camm AJ, Kowey P, Singh JP, Rashkin J, Wieloch M, Turakhia MP, Sandhu AT
• Association of CHA2DS2-VASc and HAS-BLED to frailty and frail outcomes: From the TREAT-AF study.
  American heart journal 2023 Pundi K, Perino AC, Fan J, Din N, Szummer K, Heidenreich P, Turakhia MP
• Randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate an Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Prevention Shared Decision-Making Pathway.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2023 Wang PJ, Lu Y, Mahaffey KW, Lin A, Morin DP, Sears SF, Chung MK, Russo AM, Lin B, Piccini J, Hills MT, Berube C, Pundi K, Baykaner T, Garay G, Lhamo K, Rice E, Pourshams IA, Shah R, Newswanger P, …
• Design and development of a digital shared decision-making tool for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.
  JAMIA open 2023 Nunes JC, Baykaner T, Pundi K, DeSutter K, True Hills M, Mahaffey KW, Sears SF, Morin DP, Lin B, Wang PJ, Stafford RS
• Warfarin Time in Therapeutic INR Range and Direct Oral Anticoagulant Adherence for Venous Thromboembolism Across the Spectrum of Weight and Body Mass Index: Findings from Veterans Health Administration.
  Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis 2023 Din N, Fan J, Schmitt S, Guo JD, Hlavacek P, Pundi K, Russ C, Emir B, Turakhia MP, Perino AC
• Atrial fibrillation bleeding risk and prediction while treated with direct oral anticoagulants in warfarin-naïve or warfarin-experienced patients.
  Clinical cardiology 2022 Perino AC, Fan J, Pundi K, Schmitt S, Kothari M, Din N, Heidenreich PA, Turakhia MP
• The ENHANCE-AF clinical trial to evaluate an atrial fibrillation shared decision-making pathway: Rationale and study design.
  American heart journal 2022 Baykaner T, Pundi K, Lin B, Lu Y, DeSutter K, Lhamo K, Garay G, Nunes JC, Morin DP, Sears SF, Chung MK, Paasche-Orlow MK, Sanders LM, Bunch TJ, Hills MT, Mahaffey KW, Stafford RS, Wang PJ
• Shared Decision Making in Cardiac Electrophysiology Procedures and Arrhythmia Management.
  Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology 2021 Chung MK, Fagerlin A, Wang PJ, Ajayi TB, Allen LA, Baykaner T, Benjamin EJ, Branda M, Cavanaugh KL, Chen LY, Crossley GH, Delaney RK, Eckhardt LL, Grady KL, Hargraves IG, True Hills M, Kalscheur MM, …
• Direct Oral Anticoagulant Adherence of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Transitioned from Warfarin.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2021 Pundi KN, Perino AC, Fan J, Schmitt S, Kothari M, Szummer K, Askari M, Heidenreich PA, Turakhia MP
• Anticoagulation Treatment and Outcomes of Venous Thromboembolism by Weight and Body Mass Index: Insights From the Veterans Health Administration.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2021 Perino AC, Fan J, Schmitt S, Guo JD, Hlavacek P, Din N, Kothari M, Pundi K, Russ C, Emir B, Turakhia MP
• Blood Thinners for Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Prevention.
  Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology 2021 Pundi K, Baykaner T, True Hills M, Lin B, Morin DP, Sears SF, Wang PJ, Stafford RS
• Association of kidney function and atrial fibrillation progression to clinical outcomes in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices.
  American heart journal 2021 Szummer K, Pundi K, Perino AC, Fan J, Kothari M, Turakhia MP
• Characteristics and Strength of Evidence of COVID-19 Studies Registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Pundi K, Perino AC, Harrington RA, Krumholz HM, Turakhia MP
• Multiphase Computed Tomographic Enterography: Diagnostic Yield and Efficacy in Patients With Suspected Small Bowel Bleeding.
  Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes 2019 Deepak P, Pundi KN, Bruining DH, Fidler JL, Barlow JM, Hansel SL, Harmsen WS, Wells ML, Fletcher JG
• Yield of the RYR2 Genetic Test in Suspected Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia and Implications for Test Interpretation.
  Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine 2018 Kapplinger JD, Pundi KN, Larson NB, Callis TE, Tester DJ, Bikker H, Wilde AAM, Ackerman MJ
• Sudden cardiac death and late arrhythmias after the Fontan operation.
  Congenital heart disease 2016 Pundi KN, Pundi KN, Johnson JN, Dearani JA, Li Z, Driscoll DJ, Wackel PL, McLeod CJ, Cetta F, Cannon BC
• Heart transplantation after Fontan: Results from a surgical Fontan cohort.
  Pediatric transplantation 2016 Pundi KN, Pundi K, Driscoll DJ, Dearani JA, Li Z, Dahl SH, Mora BN, O'Leary PW, Daly RC, Cetta F, Johnson JN
• Evaluation of Patient Tolerance and Small-Bowel Distention With a New Small-Bowel Distending Agent for Enterography.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2016 Kolbe AB, Fletcher JG, Froemming AT, Sheedy SP, Koo CW, Pundi K, Bruining DH, Tung J, Harmsen WS, Barlow JM, Fidler JL
• Liver Disease in Patients After the Fontan Operation.
  The American journal of cardiology 2015 Pundi K, Pundi KN, Kamath PS, Cetta F, Li Z, Poterucha JT, Driscoll DJ, Johnson JN
• 40-Year Follow-Up After the Fontan Operation: Long-Term Outcomes of 1,052 Patients.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2015 Pundi KN, Johnson JN, Dearani JA, Pundi KN, Li Z, Hinck CA, Dahl SH, Cannon BC, O'Leary PW, Driscoll DJ, Cetta F
• Contraception Practices and Pregnancy Outcome in Patients after Fontan Operation.
  Congenital heart disease 2015 Pundi KN, Pundi K, Johnson JN, Dearani JA, Bonnichsen CR, Phillips SD, Canobbio MC, Driscoll DJ, Cetta F
• Forequarter amputation for recurrent breast cancer.
  International journal of surgery case reports 2015 Pundi KN, AlJamal YN, Ruparel RK, Farley DR
• Coordination of hand shape.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011 Pesyna C, Pundi K, Flanders M