Biykem Bozkurt

POSITIONS

Professor

Medicine-Cardiology

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX, US

Mary and Gordon Cain Chair of Internal Medicine in the Winters Center for Heart Failure Research

Medicine-Cardiology

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, United States

W. A. "Tex" and Deborah Moncrief, Jr. Chair

Medicine-Cardiology

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, United States

EDUCATION

Fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

01/1997 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Heart Failure-Cardiac Transplantation

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

06/1994 - Houston, TX, United States

Internal Medicine

Internship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/1991 - Houston, TX, United States

Internal Medicine

MD from Istanbul Faculty of Medicine

01/1989 - Istanbul, Turkey

Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/1996 - Houston, United States

Cardiology

PhD from Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas Medical School

03/2009 - Houston, United States

Clinical Scientist Training Program

CERTIFICATIONS

Cardiovascular Disease

American Board of Internal Medicine

Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation

American Board of Internal Medicine

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

• Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Torre-Amione G, Young JB, Durand J, Bozkurt B, Mann DL, Kobrin I, Pratt CM. "Hemodynamic effects of tezosentan, an intravenous dual endothelin receptor antagonist, in patients with class III to IV congestive heart failure.." Circulation. 2001 February 20;103(7):973-80. Pubmed PMID: 11181472
• Ather S, Hira RS, Shenoy M, Fatemi O, Deswal A, Aguilar D, Ramasubbu K, Bolos M, Chan W, Bozkurt B. "Recurrent low-level Troponin I elevation is a worse prognostic indicator than occasional injury pattern in patients hospitalized with heart failure.." Int. J. Cardiol.. 2011 November 24 Pubmed PMID: 22119115
• Alam M, Huang HD, Shahzad SA, Kar B, Virani SS, Rogers PA, Paniagua D, Bozkurt B, Palacios I, Kleiman NS, Jneid H. "Percutaneous Coronary Intervention vs. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease in the Drug-Eluting Stents Era.." Circ. J.. 2012 October 31 Pubmed PMID: 23123552
• Anderson JL, Halperin JL, Albert NM, Bozkurt B, Brindis RG, Curtis LH, Demets D, Guyton RA, Hochman JS, Kovacs RJ, Ohman EM, Pressler SJ, Sellke FW, Shen WK. "Management of Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease (Compilation of 2005 and 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline Recommendations): A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines.." Circulation. 2013 April 2;127(13):1425-43. Pubmed PMID: 23457117