Firas Zahr, M.D.

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Medicine

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2002, University of Damascus
  • Residency

    • Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Fellowship

    • Interventional Cardiology Structural Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Internal Medicine, Interventional Cardiology (2012), Cardiovascular Disease (2011), Internal Medicine (2008)

Memberships and associations:

  • American College of Cardiology, Fellow

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Quality of Life After Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement

    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    1. Suzanne V. Arnold
    2. Rebecca T. Hahn
    3. Vinod H. Thourani
    4. Raj Makkar
    5. Moody Makar
    6. Rahul P. Sharma
    7. Christiane Haeffele
    8. Charles J. Davidson
    9. Akhil Narang
    10. Brian O'Neill
    11. James Lee
    12. Pradeep Yadav
    13. Firas Zahr
    14. Scott Chadderdon
    15. Mackram Eleid
    16. Sorin Pislaru
    17. Robert Smith
    18. Molly Szerlip
    19. Brian Whisenant
    20. Nishant Sekaran
    21. Santiago Garcia
    22. Terri Stewart-Dehner
    23. Paul A. Grayburn
    24. Anna Sannino
    25. Clayton Snyder
    26. Yiran Zhang
    27. Michael J. Mack
    28. Martin B. Leon
    29. Philipp Lurz
    30. Susheel Kodali
    31. David J. Cohen
  • Residual Mitral Regurgitation Interacts With Transmitral Mean Pressure Gradient to Modify the Association With Mortality Following Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair

    Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Neal M. Duggal
    2. Milo Engoren
    3. Paul Sorajja
    4. D. Scott Lim
    5. Jason H. Rogers
    6. Scott M. Chadderdon
    7. Firas E. Zahr
    8. Evelio Rodriguez
    9. M. Andrew Morse
    10. Enrique Garcia-Sayan
    11. Nishtha Sodhi
    12. Marcella A. Calfon Press
    13. Gorav Ailawadi
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Systolic Heart Failure and Moderate Aortic Stenosis

    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    1. Nicolas M. Van Mieghem
    2. Sammy Elmariah
    3. Ernest Spitzer
    4. Philippe Pibarot
    5. Tamim M. Nazif
    6. Jeroen J. Bax
    7. Rebecca T. Hahn
    8. Alexandra Popma
    9. Ori Ben-Yehuda
    10. Faouzi Kallel
    11. Björn Redfors
    12. Michael L. Chuang
    13. Maria C. Alu
    14. Wietze Lindeboom
    15. Dhaval Kolte
    16. Firas E. Zahr
    17. Susheel K. Kodali
    18. Justin A. Strote
    19. Renicus S. Hermanides
    20. David J. Cohen
    21. Jan G.P. Tijssen
    22. Martin B. Leon
  • Transcatheter Valve Replacement in Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

    New England Journal of Medicine
    1. Rebecca T. Hahn
    2. Raj Makkar
    3. Vinod H. Thourani
    4. Moody Makar
    5. Rahul P. Sharma
    6. Christiane Haeffele
    7. Charles J. Davidson
    8. Akhil Narang
    9. Brian O'neill
    10. James Lee
    11. Pradeep Yadav
    12. Firas Zahr
    13. Scott Chadderdon
    14. Mackram Eleid
    15. Sorin Pislaru
    16. Robert Smith
    17. Molly Szerlip
    18. Brian Whisenant
    19. Nishant K. Sekaran
    20. Santiago Garcia
    21. Terri Stewart-Dehner
    22. Holger Thiele
    23. Robert Kipperman
    24. Konstantinos Koulogiannis
    25. D. Scott Lim
    26. Dale Fowler
    27. Samir Kapadia
    28. Serge C. Harb
    29. Paul A. Grayburn
    30. Anna Sannino
    31. Michael J. Mack
    32. Martin B. Leon
    33. Philipp Lurz
    34. Susheel K. Kodali
  • 3-Year Outcomes From the Evolut Low Risk TAVR Bicuspid Study

    JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Firas Zahr
    2. Basel Ramlawi
    3. Michael J. Reardon
    4. G. Michael Deeb
    5. Steven J. Yakubov
    6. Howard K. Song
    7. Neal S. Kleiman
    8. Stanley J. Chetcuti
    9. Hemal Gada
    10. Mubashir Mumtaz
    11. Stephane Leung
    12. William Merhi
    13. Joshua D. Rovin
    14. Michael DeFrain
    15. Murali Muppala
    16. James Kauten
    17. Vivek Rajagopal
    18. Jiang Huang
    19. Saki Ito
    20. John K. Forrest
  • Contemporary Outcomes of TAVR Using a Balloon-Expandable Valve in Patients With Severe Mitral Stenosis

    Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Anirudh Kumar
    2. Imran N. Ahmad
    3. James D. Flaherty
    4. Vinayak Nagaraja
    5. Chetan P. Huded
    6. Grant W. Reed
    7. Rishi Puri
    8. Andrew N. Rassi
    9. Sachin S. Goel
    10. Hani Jneid
    11. James M. McCabe
    12. Mayra Guerrero
    13. Firas Zahr
    14. Amar Krishnaswamy
    15. Samir R. Kapadia
  • Impact of Tricuspid Regurgitation on Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With Balloon-Expandable Valves

    JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Firas Zahr
    2. Sammy Elmariah
    3. Sreekanth Vemulapalli
    4. Susheel K. Kodali
    5. Rebecca T. Hahn
    6. Allen S. Anderson
    7. Mackram F. Eleid
    8. Charles J. Davidson
    9. Rahul P. Sharma
    10. William W. O'Neill
    11. Brian Bethea
    12. Vinod H. Thourani
    13. Tarun Chakravarty
    14. Aakriti Gupta
    15. Raj R. Makkar
  • Left atrial to coronary sinus shunting for treatment of heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction

    European Journal of Heart Failure
    1. Marcus A. Urey
    2. Benjamin Hibbert
    3. Ulrich Jorde
    4. Peter Eckman
    5. Trevor Simard
    6. Marino Labinaz
    7. Babak Nazer
    8. Mark Wiley
    9. Bhanu Gupta
    10. Andrew Sauer
    11. Hirak Shah
    12. Paul Sorajja
    13. Andres M. Pineda
    14. Emil Missov
    15. Ehtisham Mahmud
    16. Rami Kahwash
    17. Scott Lilly
    18. Azeem Latib
    19. Sandhya Murthy
    20. Neil Fam
    21. Santiago Garcia
    22. Eugene S. Chung
    23. Liviu Klein
    24. Richard Cheng
    25. Brian A. Houston
    26. Nicholas S. Amoroso
    27. Lee Chang
    28. Sameer Gafoor
    29. Sunit Preet Chaudhry
    30. James Hermiller
    31. Jonathan G. Schwartz
    32. Lillian Aldaia
    33. Konstantinos Koulogiannis
    34. William A. Gray
    35. Firas Zahr
  • Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair With the PASCAL Precision System

    Structural Heart
    1. Santiago Garcia
    2. Sammy Elmariah
    3. Robert J. Cubeddu
    4. Firas Zahr
    5. Mackram F. Eleid
    6. Susheel K. Kodali
    7. Puvi Seshiah
    8. Rahul Sharma
    9. D. Scott Lim
  • Mortality Associated With Proportionality of Secondary Mitral Regurgitation After Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair

    American Journal of Cardiology
    1. Neal M. Duggal
    2. Milo Engoren
    3. Scott M. Chadderdon
    4. Evelio Rodriguez
    5. M. Andrew Morse
    6. Mani A. Vannan
    7. Pradeep K. Yadav
    8. Michael Morcos
    9. Flora Li
    10. Mark Reisman
    11. Enrique Garcia-Sayan
    12. Deepa Raghunathan
    13. Nishtha Sodhi
    14. Paul Sorajja
    15. Lily Chen
    16. Jason H. Rogers
    17. Marcella A. Calfon
    18. Christopher P. Kovach
    19. Edward A. Gill
    20. Firas E. Zahr
    21. Stanley J. Chetcuti
    22. Yuan Yuan
    23. Graciela B. Mentz
    24. D. Scott Lim
    25. Gorav Ailawadi
  • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in patients with high-risk symptomatic native aortic regurgitation (ALIGN-AR)

    The Lancet
    1. Torsten P. Vahl
    2. Vinod H. Thourani
    3. Raj R. Makkar
    4. Nadira Hamid
    5. Omar K. Khalique
    6. David Daniels
    7. James M. McCabe
    8. Lowell Satler
    9. Mark Russo
    10. Wen Cheng
    11. Isaac George
    12. Gabriel Aldea
    13. Brett Sheridan
    14. Dean Kereiakes
    15. Harsh Golwala
    16. Firas Zahr
    17. Stanley Chetcuti
    18. Pradeep Yadav
    19. Susheel K. Kodali
    20. Hendrik Treede
    21. Stephan Baldus
    22. Nicholas Amoroso
    23. Lauren S. Ranard
    24. Duane S. Pinto
    25. Martin B. Leon
  • 1-Year Outcomes Following Transfemoral Transseptal Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

    JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Firas Zahr
    2. Howard K. Song
    3. Scott Chadderdon
    4. Hemal Gada
    5. Mubashir Mumtaz
    6. Timothy Byrne
    7. Merick Kirshner
    8. Samin Sharma
    9. Susheel Kodali
    10. Isaac George
    11. William Merhi
    12. Leora Yarboro
    13. Paul Sorajja
    14. Vinayak Bapat
    15. Tanvir Bajwa
    16. Eric Weiss
    17. Jeremy J. Thaden
    18. Elizabeth Gearhart
    19. Scott Lim
    20. Michael Reardon
    21. David Adams
    22. Michael Mack
    23. Martin B. Leon
  • 1-Year Outcomes From the CLASP IID Randomized Trial for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation

    JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Firas Zahr
    2. Robert L. Smith
    3. Linda D. Gillam
    4. Scott Chadderdon
    5. Raj Makkar
    6. Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben
    7. Tobias Friedrich Ruf
    8. Robert M. Kipperman
    9. Andrew N. Rassi
    10. Molly Szerlip
    11. Scott Goldman
    12. Ignacio Inglessis-Azuaje
    13. Pradeep Yadav
    14. Philipp Lurz
    15. Charles J. Davidson
    16. Mubashir Mumtaz
    17. Hemal Gada
    18. Saibal Kar
    19. Susheel K. Kodali
    20. Roger Laham
    21. William Hiesinger
    22. Neil P. Fam
    23. Mirjam Keßler
    24. William W. O'Neill
    25. Brian Whisenant
    26. Chad Kliger
    27. Samir Kapadia
    28. Volker Rudolph
    29. Joseph Choo
    30. James Hermiller
    31. Michael A. Morse
    32. Niklas Schofer
    33. Sameer Gafoor
    34. Azeem Latib
    35. Paul Mahoney
    36. Tsuyoshi Kaneko
    37. Pinak B. Shah
    38. John A. Riddick
    39. Kamran I. Muhammad
    40. Peter Boekstegers
    41. Matthew J. Price
    42. Fabien Praz
    43. Konstantinos Koulogiannis
    44. Leo Marcoff
    45. Jörg Hausleiter
    46. D. Scott Lim
  • 1-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair in Anatomically Complex Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation Patients

    JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Robert L. Smith
    2. D. Scott Lim
    3. Linda D. Gillam
    4. Firas Zahr
    5. Scott Chadderdon
    6. Andrew N. Rassi
    7. Raj Makkar
    8. Scott Goldman
    9. Volker Rudolph
    10. James Hermiller
    11. Robert M. Kipperman
    12. Abhijeet Dhoble
    13. Richard Smalling
    14. Azeem Latib
    15. Susheel K. Kodali
    16. Mohamad Lazkani
    17. Joseph Choo
    18. Philipp Lurz
    19. William W. O'Neill
    20. Roger Laham
    21. Josep Rodés-Cabau
    22. Saibal Kar
    23. Niklas Schofer
    24. Brian Whisenant
    25. Ignacio Inglessis-Azuaje
    26. Stephan Baldus
    27. Samir Kapadia
    28. Molly Szerlip
    29. Chad Kliger
    30. Robert Boone
    31. John G. Webb
    32. Mathew R. Williams
    33. Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben
    34. Tobias Friedrich Ruf
    35. Mayra Guerrero
    36. Mackram Eleid
    37. James M. McCabe
    38. Charles Davidson
    39. William Hiesinger
    40. Tsuyoshi Kaneko
    41. Pinak B. Shah
    42. Pradeep Yadav
    43. Konstantinos Koulogiannis
    44. Leo Marcoff
    45. Jörg Hausleiter
  • 1-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair

    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    1. Susheel K. Kodali
    2. Rebecca T. Hahn
    3. Charles J. Davidson
    4. Akhil Narang
    5. Adam Greenbaum
    6. Patrick Gleason
    7. Samir Kapadia
    8. Rhonda Miyasaka
    9. Firas Zahr
    10. Scott Chadderdon
    11. Robert L. Smith
    12. Paul Grayburn
    13. Robert M. Kipperman
    14. Leo Marcoff
    15. Brian Whisenant
    16. Mike Gonzales
    17. Raj Makkar
    18. Moody Makar
    19. William O'Neill
    20. Dee Dee Wang
    21. William A. Gray
    22. Sandra Abramson
    23. James Hermiller
    24. Lucas Mitchel
    25. D. Scott Lim
    26. Dale Fowler
    27. Mathew Williams
    28. Sorin V. Pislaru
    29. Abdellaziz Dahou
    30. Michael J. Mack
    31. Martin B. Leon
    32. Mackram F. Eleid
  • 3-Year Outcomes After Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients With Aortic Stenosis

    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    1. John K. Forrest
    2. G. Michael Deeb
    3. Steven J. Yakubov
    4. Hemal Gada
    5. Mubashir A. Mumtaz
    6. Basel Ramlawi
    7. Tanvir Bajwa
    8. Paul S. Teirstein
    9. Michael DeFrain
    10. Murali Muppala
    11. Bruce J. Rutkin
    12. Atul Chawla
    13. Bart Jenson
    14. Stanley J. Chetcuti
    15. Robert C. Stoler
    16. Marie France Poulin
    17. Kamal Khabbaz
    18. Melissa Levack
    19. Kashish Goel
    20. Didier Tchétché
    21. Ka Yan Lam
    22. Pim A.L. Tonino
    23. Saki Ito
    24. Jae K. Oh
    25. Jian Huang
    26. Jeffrey J. Popma
    27. Neal Kleiman
    28. Michael J. Reardon
    29. Paul Sorajja
    30. Timothy Byrne
    31. Merick Kirshner
    32. John Crouch
    33. Joseph Coselli
    34. Guilherme Silva
    35. Robert Hebeler
    36. Robert Stoler
    37. Ashequl Islam
    38. Anthony Rousou
    39. Mark Bladergroen
    40. Peter Fail
    41. Donald Netherland
    42. W. A.L. Tonino
    43. Arnaud Sudre
    44. Pierre Berthoumieu
    45. Houman Khalili
    46. G. Chad Hughes
    47. J. Kevin Harrison
    48. Ajanta De
    49. Howard Song
    50. Firas Zahr
  • Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography Anatomical Characterization of Patients Screened for a Dedicated Transfemoral Transcatheter Valve System for Primary Aortic Regurgitation

    Structural Heart
    1. Shawnbir Gogia
    2. Torsten P. Vahl
    3. Vinod H. Thourani
    4. Pradeep K. Yadav
    5. Isaac George
    6. Susheel K. Kodali
    7. Nadira Hamid
    8. Lauren Ranard
    9. Tiffany Chen
    10. Mitsuaki Matsumura
    11. Akiko Maehara
    12. Hendrik Treede
    13. Stephan Baldus
    14. David Daniels
    15. Brett C. Sheridan
    16. Firas Zahr
    17. Mark J. Russo
    18. James M. McCabe
    19. Stanley J. Chetcuti
    20. Martin B. Leon
    21. Raj R. Makkar
    22. Omar K. Khalique