Sean P. Pinney Explained

Sean Patrick Pinney is an American cardiologist and the Director of both the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.^[1]

He is an Associate Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine,^[2] the author of over 20 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and of multiple book chapters. He lectures frequently on the topic of cardiovascular disease.

Biography

Pinney was born in St. Louis, Missouri, graduating from St. Louis Priory School in 1986; he received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1990 and graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1994. He completed a residency at Deaconess Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts and was Chief Resident in Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center until 1998. He was a fellow in Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplants and Chief Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.

His practice has a primary focus on the understanding and treatment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy, a condition affecting about half of all transplant recipients by their fifth year.^[3]

Pinney is a reviewer for the medical journals The Medical Letter, Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, Transplantation and Transplant Immunology.

Awards and honors

2005 – Best Medical Grand Rounds 2004-05, Mount Sinai Medical Center
2000 – Young Investigator Award, New York Cardiological Society/New York Chapter American College of Cardiology^[4]
2000 – Cardiology Fellowship Research Award, Columbia University
1998 – Ivy DeFriez Award, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
1995 – James L. Tullis, M.D. Book Award, Deaconess Hospital
1994 – Pharmacology Research Award, Georgetown University

Memberships

Fellow, American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association
American Society of Transplantation
Heart Failure Society of America
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Pulmonary Hypertension Association
1996-1998, American College of Physicians
1995-1998, Massachusetts Medical Society
1992-1998, American Medical Association

Publications

18713914 . 10.1213/ane.0b013e31817f10e8 . 107 . Successful placement of a right ventricular assist device for treatment of a presumed amniotic fluid embolism . September 2008 . Anesth. Analg. . 962–4 . Nagarsheth . NP . Pinney . S . Bassily-Marcus . A . Anyanwu . A . Friedman . L . Beilin . Y. 207129868 . 3 . free .
18022072 . 10.1016/j.healun.2007.07.036 . 26 . Incidence, treatment strategies and outcome of deep sternal wound infection after orthotopic heart transplantation . November 2007 . J. Heart Lung Transplant. . 1084–90 . Filsoufi . F . Rahmanian . PB . Castillo . JG . Pinney . S . Broumand . SR . Adams . DH. 11 .
Mancini . DM . Pinney . S . Burkhoff . D . LaManca . J . Itescu . S . Burke . E . Edwards . N . Oz . M . Marks . AR . 2003 . Use of rapamycin slows progression of cardiac transplantation vasculopathy. . Circulation . 108 . 1. 48–53 . 10.1161/01.cir.0000070421.38604.2b . 12742978 . free .
14508231 . 42 . Minocycline inhibits smooth muscle cell proliferation, migration and neointima formation after arterial injury . October 2003 . J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. . 469–76 . Pinney . SP . Chen . HJ . Liang . D . Wang . X . Schwartz . A . Rabbani . LE . 34108599 . 4 . 10.1097/00005344-200310000-00003.
15312824 . 10.1016/j.healun.2004.06.012 . 23 . Heart transplantation to a physiologic single lung in patients with congenital heart disease . August 2004 . J. Heart Lung Transplant. . 948–53 . Lamour . JM . Hsu . DT . Quaegebeur . JM . 8 . etal.
15464499 . 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.04.012 . 78 . Trends and outcomes in transplantation for complex congenital heart disease: 1984 to 2004 . October 2004 . Ann. Thorac. Surg. . 1352–61; discussion 1352–61 . Chen . JM . Davies . RR . Mital . SR . 4 . etal. free .
15653376 . 10.1016/j.healun.2003.09.036 . 24 . Acceptable recipient outcomes with the use of hearts from donors with hepatitis-B core antibodies . January 2005 . J. Heart Lung Transplant. . 34–7 . Pinney . SP . Cheema . FH . Hammond . K . Chen . JM . Edwards . NM . Mancini . D. 1 .
Woollett . IF . Pinney . S . Magnano . AR . 2005 . Balloon dilatation of coronary sinus spasm during placement of a biventricular pacing lead. . Circulation . 111 . 20. e304–5 . 10.1161/circulationaha.104.471003 . 15911710 . free .
McKay . M . Pinney . S . Gorwara . S . Burke . EM . Sciacca . RR . Apfelbaum . M . Mancini . D . Itescu . S . Rabbani . LE . Anti-HLA antibodies are associated with restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention for cardiac allograft vasculopathy. . Transplantation . 2005 . 79. 1581–1587 .
15975371 . 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.01.022 . 80 . Alternate waiting list strategies for heart transplantation maximize donor organ utilization . July 2005 . Ann. Thorac. Surg. . 224–8 . Chen . JM . Russo . MJ . Hammond . KM . 1 . etal.
Salzberg . SP . David H. Adams . Filsoufi . F . Anyanwu . A . von Harbou . K . Gass . A . Pinney . SP . Carpentier . A . Adams . DH . 2005 . High-risk mitral valve surgery: perioperative hemodynamic optimization with nesiritide (BNP) . Ann Thorac Surg . 80 . 2. 502–506 . 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.02.041 . 16039193 . free .
16297808 . 10.1016/j.healun.2005.03.003 . 24 . Reduced myocardial blood flow during left ventricular assist device support: a possible cause of premature bypass graft closure . November 2005 . J. Heart Lung Transplant. . 1976–9 . Xydas . S . Rosen . RS . Pinney . S . 11 . etal.
16730576 . 10.1016/j.healun.2006.02.003 . 25 . Long-term results of tacrolimus monotherapy in cardiac transplant recipients . June 2006 . J. Heart Lung Transplant. . 699–706 . Lubitz . SA . Baran . DA . Alwarshetty . MM . 6 . etal.
17097506 . 10.1016/j.healun.2006.08.001 . 25 . Is toxoplasmosis prophylaxis necessary in cardiac transplantation? Long-term follow-up at two transplant centers . November 2006 . J. Heart Lung Transplant. . 1380–2 . Baran . DA . Alwarshetty . MM . Alvi . S . 11 . etal.
Lubitz . SA . Pinney . S . Wisnivesky . JP . Gass . A . Baran . DA . 2007 . Statin therapy is associated with a reduced risk of chronic renal failure after cardiac transplantation. . J Heart Lung Transplant . 26 . 3. 264–272 . 10.1016/j.healun.2006.12.003 . 17346629 .
17889020 . 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.02.004 . 84 . Off-pump implant of the Jarvik 2000 ventricular assist device through median sternotomy . October 2007 . Ann. Thorac. Surg. . 1405–7 . Anyanwu . AC . Fischer . GW . Plotkina . I . Pinney . S . Adams . DH. 4 .
Pinney . SP . Wasserman . HS . 2002 . Anterior myocardial infarction, acute aortic dissection and anomalous coronary artery. . Journal of Interventional Cardiology . 15 . 4. 293–296 . 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2002.tb01106.x . 12238425.
Pinney . SP . Daly . PA . 1999 . Parathyroid Cyst: an uncommon cause of a palpable neck mass and hypercalcemia. . West J Med . 170 . 2. 118–120 . 10063401 . 1305454 .
Pinney . SP . Koller . BS . Franz . MR . Woosley . Raymond L. . Ph . 8904511 . 1995 . Terfenadine increases the QT interval in isolated guinea pig heart. . J Cardiovasc Pharmacol . 25 . 1. 30–34 . 10.1097/00005344-199501000-00006 . 7723350 . free .

External links

Notes and References

http://www.mountsinai.org/Find%20A%20Doctor/profile.do?id=0000072500001497255602 Mount Sinai Hospital – Sean P. Pinney
http://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/sean-p-pinney "Doctor Profile", Mount Sinai
9323100 . 96 . Cardiac allograft vasculopathy: a review . 1997 . Circulation . 2069–77 . Weis . M . von Scheidt . W . 6 . 10.1161/01.cir.96.6.2069.
http://www.mssm.edu/cvi/cmail/pdf/0904.pdf C-Mail: A Physician Newsletter of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravitz Center for Cardiovascular Health