Ira S. Nash Explained
Ira S. Nash is an American cardiologist.[1]
Career
Nash is the senior vice president for physician leadership development at Northwell Health, and the associate dean for physician leadership development at the Zucker School of Medicine.[2]
Previously, Nash served as the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Associate Professor of both Medicine and Health Evidence and Policy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.[3]
Nash serves and has served on various editorial boards including Cardiovascular Review and Reports, the American Journal of Medical Quality,[4] the American Journal of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine. He has published more than 30 articles and 13 books and book chapters and is an associate editor of Hurst's The Heart, a leading textbook.[5] From 1998-2000 he was the host of WCBS-TV's “2 Your Health”. He is the host of the Well Said podcast.[6]
Nash is a member of the Clinical Council of the American Heart Association (AHA) and serves on the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/AHA Joint Task Force on Clinical Competence,[7] which sets standards for training and expertise in cardiovascular medicine.
Nash was named in Castle Connolly's list of “Best Doctors” in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011[8] and in the New York Times list of "Super Doctors" in 2008, 2009 and 2010.[9]
Nash received his A.B., summa cum laude, in Engineering and Applied Science in 1980 from Harvard University and his M.D., cum laude, in 1984 from Harvard Medical School.[10] His internship (1984–1985) and his residency (1985–1987) in medicine were both at The Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1987-1989 he was a clinical fellow in Medicine (Cardiology) at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital.
Nash served on the full-time academic staff of the Cardiac Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School until 1995, when he joined the Mount Sinai Medical Center.[11]
Nash is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians.
As of 2011, Nash was Commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy Reserve.[12]
As of 2020, he was the Executive Director of Northern Health Physician Partners.[13]
Honors and awards
Partial list:
- 2006 Best Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
- 2007 Castle Connolly "Top Doctor" New York Metro Area
- 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 New York Times "Super Doctors"
- 2008 Castle Connolly "Top Doctor" New York Metro Area
- 2016 Press Ganey Physician of the Year[14]
Books and chapters
- Nash IS, Fifer MA. Pressure, flow and resistance, in Uretsky BF, ed, Cardiac Catheterization: Concepts, Techniques and Applications, Blackwell. 1997.
- Nash IS, ed. The Cardiologist's Managed Care Manual. TLC Publishing, Boston, MA, 1998.
- Nash IS, Fuster V, eds. Efficacy of Myocardial Infarction Therapy. Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 1999.
- Nash IS. Medical and health reporting in the news media, in Nash DB, Manfredi MP, Howell S, Bozarth, eds. Connecting with the New Health Care Consumer: Defining Your Strategy, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
- Nash IS. Practice guidelines in cardiovascular care, in Fuster V, et al., eds. Hurst's the Heart, 10th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
- Sagall EL, Nash IS. Cardiac evaluations for legal purposes, in Fuster V, ed. Hurst's the Heart, 10th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
- Nash IS. Practice guidelines in cardiovascular care. Updates to Hurst's the Heart. McGraw-Hill, 2001.
- Fuster V, Alexander W, O'Rourke R, Roberts R, King S, Nash IS, Prystowsky E., eds. Hurst’s The Heart, 11th edition. McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Nash IS. Practice guidelines in cardiovascular care, in Fuster V, et al., eds. Hurst's the Heart, 11th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Fuster V, O'Rourke R, Walsh R, Poole-Wilson P, King S, Roberts R, Nash IS, Prystowsky E., eds. Hurst's The Heart, 12th edition. McGraw-Hill, 2008.
- Nash IS. Practice guidelines in cardiovascular care, in Fuster V, et al., eds. Hurst's the Heart, 12th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
- Maddox TM, Nash IS, Fuster V. Economic costs of atrial fibrillation, in Natale A, ed. Atrial Fibrillation: from Bench to Bedside. Springer-Verlag, 2008.
- Stevens G, Nash IS. Post-discharge care of the cardiothoracic surgical patient, in Filsoufi, ed. Cardiac Surgery. In press.
Publications
- Rahilly-Tierney . CR . Nash . IS . Jun 2008 . Decision-making in percutaneous coronary intervention: a survey . BMC Med Inform Decis Mak . 8 . 1. 28 . 10.1186/1472-6947-8-28 . 18578880 . 2443120 . free .
- Nash . IS . Sep 2007 . Reassessing normal blood pressure . BMJ . 335 . 7617. 408–9 . 10.1136/bmj.39310.540683.80 . 17762002 . 1962894 .
- 17285207 . 73 . 8 . Multimodal characterization of a large right atrial mass after surgical repair of an atrial septal defect . December 2006 . 1117–9 . Mt. Sinai J. Med. . Nemirovsky . D . Salzberg . SP . Einstein . AJ . etal.
- 15972609 . 60 . 5 . Aronow's "Should the NCEP III guidelines be changed in elderly and younger persons at high risk for cardiovascular events?" Aim low . May 2005 . J. Gerontol. A Biol. Sci. Med. Sci. . 599–600; author reply 602. Nash . I. S. . 10.1093/gerona/60.5.599 . free .
- 15851383 . 10.1177/1062860604273752 . 20 . Reducing excessive medication administration in hospitalized adults with renal dysfunction . 2005 . Am J Med Qual . 64–9 . Nash . IS . Rojas . M . Hebert . P . 2 . 40564706 . etal.
- 15785188 . 1 . 3 . Is a chimera the answer? . 2003 . The American Heart Hospital Journal . 203–4. Nash . I. S. . Fuster . V. . 10.1111/j.1541-9215.2003.03167.x .
- 15646165 . 24 . 6 . Ethnic differences in electrocardiographic amplitude measurements . 2004 . Ann Saudi Med . 459–64 . 10.5144/0256-4947.2004.459. 6147850 . Mansi . Ishak A. . Nash . Ira S. .
- Fuster . V . Hirshfeld . JW Jr . Brown . AS . Brundage . BH . Fye . WB . Lewis . RP . Nash . IS . Sketch . MH Jr . Vetrovec . GW . Jul 2004 . "Working group 8: "Defining the different types of cardiovascular specialists and developing a new model for training general clinical cardiologists . J Am Coll Cardiol . 44 . 2. 267–71 . 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.05.027 . 15261917 . free .
- Nash . IS . Mosca . L . Blumenthal . RS . Davidson . MH . Smith . SC Jr . Pasternak . RC . Jul 2003 . Contemporary awareness and understanding of cholesterol as a risk factor: results of an American Heart Association national survey . Arch Intern Med . 163 . 13. 1597–600 . 10.1001/archinte.163.13.1597 . 12860584 . free .
- 12848701 . 20 . 1 . Eustachian valve thrombus:critical factor in outcome of venous thromboembolism . January 2003 . Echocardiography . 71–3 . 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.00010.x . Onwuanyi . AE . Brown . RJ . Vahedi . M . Narayanan . R . Nash . IS . Goldman . ME. 26572152 .
- 12379075 . 137 . 8 . Resident burnout . October 2002 . Ann. Intern. Med. . 698–700; author reply 698–700 . 10.7326/0003-4819-137-8-200210150-00019. free . Nash . Ira S. .
- 12040332 . 143 . 5 . Is more better? . May 2002 . Am. Heart J. . 745–7. 10.1067/mhj.2002.122117 . Nash . Ira S. . Jollis . James G. .
- Mansi . IA . Nash . IS . Nov 2001 . Ethnic differences in the ST segment of the electrocardiogram: a comparative study among six ethnic groups . Am J Emerg Med . 19 . 7. 541–4 . 10.1053/ajem.2001.28326 . 11698997 .
- Mansi . IA . Nash . IS . Oct 2001 . Ethnic differences in electrocardiographic intervals and axes . J Electrocardiol . 34 . 4. 303–7 . 10.1054/jelc.2001.27453 . 11590557 .
- 11439932 . 3 . 4 . Web alert . July 2001 . Curr Cardiol Rep . 258–9 . 10.1007/s11886-001-0076-z. Nash . I. S. . 195343239 .
- 11383520 . 3 . 3 . Web alert . May 2001 . Curr Cardiol Rep . 175–6 . 10.1007/s11886-001-0018-9. Nash . I. S. . 195344354 .
- 11349639 . 3 . 1 . Web alert . January 2001 . Curr Cardiol Rep . 103 . 10.1007/s11886-001-0033-x. Nash . I. S. . 195344484 .
- 11203022 . 2 . 3 . Web alert . May 2000 . Curr Cardiol Rep . 173–4 . 10.1007/s11886-000-0064-8. Nash . I. S. . 195344210 .
- 11203021 . 2 . 2 . Web alert . March 2000 . Curr Cardiol Rep . 81–2. Nash . I. S. . 10.1007/s11886-000-0001-x . 195344446 .
- 11203020 . 2 . 1 . Web alert . January 2000 . Curr Cardiol Rep . 3–5. Nash . I. S. . 10.1007/s11886-000-0017-2 . 195344476 .
Notes and References
- News: To keep yourself from having a heart attack, take control of several risk factors . Katie Charles . New York Daily News . February 17, 2010 . March 30, 2011.
- Web site: Ira Nash, MD Northwell Health . 2022-12-12 . www.northwell.edu . en.
- Web site: Health Grades. March 30, 2011.
- Web site: sagepub.com . March 30, 2011.
- Book: Amazon.com . 0071422641 . Hurst . John Willis . 2004 . McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division .
- Web site: Well Said: Dr. Ira Nash, MD Zucker School of Medicine . 2022-12-12 . medicine.hofstra.edu.
- Web site: The American Heart Association . March 30, 2011.
- Web site: Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. . March 30, 2011.
- Web site: Super Doctors . March 30, 2011.
- Web site: Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Ira S. Nash . March 30, 2011.
- Web site: spoke.com . March 30, 2011.
- Web site: Association of the United States Navy . March 30, 2011.
- Web site: 2020-11-13 . Take a peek at the largest physician groups . 2023-07-02 . Crain's New York Business . en.
- Web site: 2016-02-23 . Dr. Ira Nash Is First Recipient Of Press Ganey 'Physician Of The Year' Award . 2022-12-12 . Long Island Weekly . en-US.