Shashank Sinha

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ABOUT SHASHANK SINHA

Shashank S. Sinha, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA serves as System Director of the Cardiogenic Shock Program, Inova Health System; Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology, and Director of the Cardiovascular Critical Care Research Program at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He is also a triple board-certified Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Cardiologist. Dr. Sinha received his undergraduate degree, cum laude in Applied Mathematics, and language citation in Spanish from Harvard University and his medical degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He was selected to the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies and received the Pritzker Leadership Award. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, earning the Maurice F. Attie Senior Resident Teaching Award. During his residency training, he completed the inaugural two-year certificate program in Healthcare Leadership in Quality at the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently served as a medical intensive care unit hospitalist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He matriculated to the University of Michigan, where he completed his clinical fellowship training in cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. Dr. Sinha also completed a two-year research fellowship and Master’s program in Health and Health Care Research at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. His research interests lie at the intersection of cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, and advanced heart failure and he has authored > 150 publications in top-tier journals including JACC, Circulation, and JAMA Internal Medicine among others. He served on the Steering Committee of the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group and Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network. Dr. Sinha serves as Deputy Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure and was a former Section Editor for the JACC Fellows-in-Training/Early Career Page and a CME/Social Media Editor for JACC: Heart Failure. Dr. Sinha has been recognized with the 2017 American Medical Association’s Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award and was inducted into the American College of Cardiology’s Leadership Academy. He also completed the 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholars program, a prestigious leadership development program developed by the centers and foundations of former U.S. Presidents William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Twitter:@ShashankSinhaMD