Joaquin E. Cigarroa, M.D.

  • Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Director, Knight Cardiovascular Institute
  • Endowed Melvin Judkins Professor of Cardiology

Biography

Dr. Cigarroa practices general cardiology. He also does procedures on the heart, including angiograms, percutaneous coronary intervention and treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He also does procedures for atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale. His other interests include coronary artery disease, heart valve disease and aortic diseases.

Education and training

  • Residency

    • Internal medicine, (1991-92), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Fellowship

    • Cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Internal Medicine, cardiovascular diseases (1995)

Publications

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Publications

  • 2025 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease

    Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
    1. Marlene S. Williams
    2. Glenn N. Levine
    3. Dinesh Kalra
    4. Anandita Agarwala
    5. Diana Baptiste
    6. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    7. Rebecca L. Diekemper
    8. Marva V. Foster
    9. Martha Gulati
    10. Timothy D. Henry
    11. Dipti Itchhaporia
    12. Jennifer S. Lawton
    13. L. Kristin Newby
    14. Kelly C. Rogers
    15. Krishan Soni
    16. Jacqueline E. Tamis-Holland
    17. Boback Ziaeian
    18. Sandeep Das
    19. Biykem Bozkurt
    20. H. Vernon Anderson
    21. Ingabire Grace Balinda
    22. Jeffrey Bruckel
    23. Leslie Cho
    24. Adam D. DeVore
    25. Michael P. Dorsch
    26. Daniel Duprez
    27. Stacy Garcia
    28. Paul L. Hess
    29. Sabeeda Kadavath
    30. Sadiya S. Khan
    31. Christopher Lee
    32. Gurusher Panjrath
    33. Puja B. Parikh
    34. Nosheen Reza
    35. Jennifer T. Thibodeau
    36. Isis Zambrana
    37. Christopher M. Kramer
    38. Cathleen C. Gates
    39. Richard J. Kovacs
    40. Justine Varieur Turco
    41. Mindy J. Saraco
    42. Grace D. Ronan
    43. Leah Patterson
    44. Abdul R. Abdullah
    45. Shae Martinez
    46. Keith Churchwell
    47. Nancy Brown
    48. Mariell Jessup
    49. Nicole Aiello Sapio
    50. Radhika Rajgopal Singh
  • 2025 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease

    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    1. Marlene S. Williams
    2. Glenn N. Levine
    3. Dinesh Kalra
    4. Anandita Agarwala
    5. Diana Baptiste
    6. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    7. Rebecca L. Diekemper
    8. Marva V. Foster
    9. Martha Gulati
    10. Timothy D. Henry
    11. Dipti Itchhaporia
    12. Jennifer S. Lawton
    13. L. Kristin Newby
    14. Kelly C. Rogers
    15. Krishan Soni
    16. Jacqueline E. Tamis-Holland
  • Occupational Health Hazards in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

    Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
    1. Islam Abudayyeh
    2. Allison G. Dupont
    3. James B. Hermiller
    4. Justine Mascarenhas
    5. Poonam Velagapudi
    6. Nkechinyere N. Ijioma
    7. Peter L. Duffy
    8. Daniel M. Kolansky
    9. Joaquin Cigarroa
    10. Dawn C. Scantlebury
    11. Kimberly Skelding
    12. Andrew J. Klein
  • Impact of concomitant surgical interventions on outcomes of septal myectomy in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    International Journal of Cardiology
    1. Ahmed M. Altibi
    2. Abharika Sapru
    3. Fares Ghanem
    4. Yuanzi Zhao
    5. Ahmad Alani
    6. Joaquin Cigarroa
    7. Babak Nazer
    8. Howard K. Song
    9. Ahmad Masri
  • 2023 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Coronary Artery Revascularization

    Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
    1. Gregory J. Dehmer
    2. Cindy L. Grines
    3. Faisal G. Bakaeen
    4. Dorian L. Beasley
    5. Theresa M. Beckie
    6. Jack Boyd
    7. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    8. Sandeep R. Das
    9. Rebecca L. Diekemper
    10. Jennifer Frampton
    11. Connie N. Hess
    12. Nkechinyere Ijioma
    13. Jennifer S. Lawton
    14. Binita Shah
    15. Nadia R. Sutton
  • 2023 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Coronary Artery Revascularization

    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    1. Gregory J. Dehmer
    2. Cindy L. Grines
    3. Faisal G. Bakaeen
    4. Dorian L. Beasley
    5. Theresa M. Beckie
    6. Jack Boyd
    7. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    8. Sandeep R. Das
    9. Rebecca L. Diekemper
    10. Jennifer Frampton
    11. Connie N. Hess
    12. Nkechinyere Ijioma
    13. Jennifer S. Lawton
    14. Binita Shah
    15. Nadia R. Sutton
  • Advocacy 101 for Interventional Cardiologists

    Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
    1. Andrew M. Goldsweig
    2. Lyndon C. Box
    3. Mark Hoyer
    4. Andrew J. Klein
    5. Kusum Lata
    6. Curtis Rooney
    7. Richard W. Snyder
    8. Afnan Tariq
    9. Edward Toggart
    10. Deepali Tukaye
    11. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
  • Hospital-Level Variability in Reporting of Ischemic Stroke Subtypes and Supporting Diagnostic Evaluation in GWTG-Stroke Registry

    Journal of the American Heart Association
    1. Michael T. Mullen
    2. M. Edip Gurol
    3. Shyam Prabhakaran
    4. Steven R. Messé
    5. Dawn O. Kleindorfer
    6. Eric E. Smith
    7. Gregg C. Fonarow
    8. Haolin Xu
    9. Xin Zhao
    10. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    11. Lee H. Schwamm
  • Hospital Procedural Volume and Clinical Outcomes Following Septal Reduction Therapy in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Journal of the American Heart Association
    1. Ahmed M. Altibi
    2. Fares Ghanem
    3. Yuanzi Zhao
    4. Miriam Elman
    5. Joaquin Cigarroa
    6. Babak Nazer
    7. Howard K. Song
    8. Ahmad Masri
  • The changing landscape of interventional cardiology

    Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    2. Curtis Rooney
    3. James Blankenship
    4. Peter L. Duffy
    5. Andrew M. Goldsweig
    6. Sandeep Krishnan
    7. Kusum Lata
    8. Deepali Tukaye
    9. Lyndon Box
  • 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure

    Journal of Cardiac Failure
    1. Paul A. Heidenreich
    2. Biykem Bozkurt
    3. David Aguilar
    4. Larry A. Allen
    5. Joni J. Byun
    6. Monica M. Colvin
    7. Anita Deswal
    8. Mark H. Drazner
    9. Shannon M. Dunlay
    10. Linda R. Evers
    11. James C. Fang
    12. Savitri E. Fedson
    13. Gregg C. Fonarow
    14. Salim S. Hayek
    15. Adrian F. Hernandez
    16. Prateeti Khazanie
    17. Michelle M. Kittleson
    18. Christopher S. Lee
    19. Mark S. Link
    20. Carmelo A. Milano
    21. Lorraine C. Nnacheta
    22. Alexander T. Sandhu
    23. Lynne Warner Stevenson
    24. Orly Vardeny
    25. Amanda R. Vest
    26. Clyde W. Yancy
    27. Joshua A. Beckman
    28. Patrick T. O'Gara
    29. Sana M. Al-Khatib
    30. Anastasia L. Armbruster
    31. Kim K. Birtcher
    32. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    33. Lisa de las Fuentes
    34. Dave L. Dixon
    35. Lee A. Fleisher
    36. Federico Gentile
    37. Zachary D. Goldberger
    38. Bulent Gorenek
    39. Norrisa Haynes
    40. Mark A. Hlatky
    41. José A. Joglar
    42. W. Schuyler Jones
    43. Joseph E. Marine
    44. Daniel B. Mark
    45. Debabrata Mukherjee
    46. Latha P. Palaniappan
    47. Mariann R. Piano
    48. Tanveer Rab
    49. Erica S. Spatz
    50. Jacqueline E. Tamis-Holland
  • Age stratified sex-related differences in incidence, management, and outcomes of cardiogenic shock

    Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Mohammed Osman
    2. Moinuddin Syed
    3. Babikir Kheiri
    4. Christopher Bianco
    5. Ankur Kalra
    6. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
    7. Mamas A. Mamas
    8. Jinnette Dawn Abbott
    9. Cindy L. Grines
    10. Gregg C. Fonarow
    11. Sudarshan Balla
  • Contemporary diagnosis and management of severe tricuspid regurgitation

    Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Firas Zahr
    2. Scott Chadderdon
    3. Howard Song
    4. Edward Sako
    5. Cristina Fuss
    6. Steven R. Bailey
    7. Joaquin Cigarroa
  • Hospital Procedural Volume and Clinical Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
    1. Ahmed M. Altibi
    2. Fares Ghanem
    3. Scott Chadderdon
    4. Gurion Lantz
    5. Howard K. Song
    6. Joaquin Cigarroa
    7. Firas E. Zahr
    8. Harsh Golwala
  • Incidence and outcomes of cardiogenic shock among women with spontaneous coronary artery dissection

    Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Mohammed Osman
    2. Moinuddin Syed
    3. Timothy F. Simpson
    4. Bhaskar Bhardwaj
    5. Babikir Kheiri
    6. Punag Divanji
    7. Harsh Golwala
    8. Firas Zahr
    9. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
  • Novel method for left ventricular unloading utilizing percutaneous pulmonary artery drainage in cardiorespiratory failure due to COVID-19 infection

    Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
    1. Kris Kumar
    2. Kendra Coonse
    3. Bishoy Zakhary
    4. Joaquin E. Cigarroa
  • Severe MR With Prior Alfieri Stitch Treated With Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair and a Vascular Plug

    JACC: Case Reports
    1. Katherine Rajotte
    2. Evan Shalen
    3. Howard K. Song
    4. Harsh Golwala
    5. Joaquin Cigarroa
    6. Grant Burch
    7. Firas Zahr
    8. Scott M. Chadderdon