Shashank S. Sinha, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

Dr. Shashank S. Sinha is an advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support and transplant cardiologist at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, where he serves as Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Medical Director of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Critical Care Research Program. He is board certified in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, cardiovascular diseases, and internal medicine. He is an Assistant Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Dr. Sinha received his undergraduate degree, cum laude in applied mathematics, 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 then 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 healthcare research at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation during his NIH T32 postdoctoral research training program.

Dr. Sinha has a strong clinical and scientific interest in improving the quality of care for patients experiencing cardiac critical illness including cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest and acute heart failure. He has authored more than 100 publications in top-tier journals including British Medical Journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), JACC: Heart Failure, Circulation, Circulation: Heart Failure, and Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. He serves as the site principal investigator and steering committee member for both the cardiogenic shock working group and the critical care cardiology trials network. He also serves as the site investigator for the American Heart Association Cardiogenic Shock Registry, where he co-chairs the interoperability working group. Dr. Sinha is an associate editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure, a former section editor for JACC’s fellows-in-training/early career page and a former continuing medical education/social medial editor for JACC: Heart Failure.

Dr. Sinha has also 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 Inova Heart and Vascular Institute Physician Leadership Development Program as well as the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Transformational Leadership Development Program. Dr. Sinha participated in the Class of 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, a prestigious leadership development program organized by centers and foundations of former U.S. presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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