Ira S. Nash

Ira S. Nash, M.D., is an American cardiologist, a specialist in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.

Nash serves as the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Additionally, he is an Associate Professor of both Medicine and Health Evidence and Policy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Nash serves and has served on various editorial boards including Cardiovascular Review and Reports, Hurst's The Heart Online, the American Journal of Medical Quality, 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. From 1998-2000 he was the host of WCBS-TV's “2 Your Health”.

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, 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 and in the New York Times list of “Super Doctors” in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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. 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 The 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.

Nash is a fellow with various professional societies including the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians.

Nash currently serves as Commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy Reserve.

Honors and awards

Partial list:

• 2006 Best Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai
• 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

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. Decision-making in percutaneous coronary intervention: a survey. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008 Jun 25;8:28. PMID 18578880; PMCID PMC2443120
• Nash IS. Reassessing normal blood pressure. BMJ. 2007 Sep 1;335(7617):408-9. PMID 17762002; PMCID PMC1962894
• Nemirovsky D, Salzberg SP, Einstein AJ, Abascal VM, Karlof E, Sanz J, Rajagopalan S, Nash IS, Filsoufi F, Adams DH. Multimodal characterization of a large right atrial mass after surgical repair of an atrial septal defect. Mt Sinai J Med. 2006 Dec;73(8):1117-9. PMID 17285207
• Nash IS. Aronow's "Should the NCEP III guidelines be changed in elderly and younger persons at high risk for cardiovascular events?" Aim low. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2005 May;60(5):599-600; author reply 602. PMID 15972609
• Nash IS, Rojas M, Hebert P, Marrone SR, Colgan C, Fisher LA, Caliendo G, Chassin MR. Reducing excessive medication administration in hospitalized adults with renal dysfunction. Am J Med Qual. 2005 Mar-Apr;20(2):64-9. PMID 15851383.
• Nash IS, Fuster V. Is a chimera the answer? Am Heart Hosp J. 2003 Summer;1(3):203-4. PMID 15785188
• Mansi IA, Nash IS. Ethnic differences in electrocardiographic amplitude measurements. Ann Saudi Med. 2004 Nov-Dec;24(6):459-64. PMID 15646165
• Fuster V, Hirshfeld JW Jr, Brown AS, Brundage BH, Fye WB, Lewis RP, Nash IS, Sketch MH Jr, Vetrovec GW. Working group 8: Defining the different types of cardiovascular specialists and developing a new model for training general clinical cardiologists. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 Jul 21;44(2):267-71. PMID

15261917.

• Nash IS, Mosca L, Blumenthal RS, Davidson MH, Smith SC Jr, Pasternak RC. Contemporary awareness and understanding of cholesterol as a risk factor: results of an American Heart Association national survey. Arch Intern Med. 2003 Jul 14;163(13):1597-600. PMID 12860584
• Onwuanyi AE, Brown RJ, Vahedi M, Narayanan R, Nash IS, Goldman ME. Eustachian valve thrombus:critical factor in outcome of venous thromboembolism. Echocardiography. 2003 Jan;20(1):71-3. Review. PMID 12848701
• Nash IS. Resident burnout. Ann Intern Med. 2002 Oct 15;137(8):698-700; author reply 698-700. PMID 12379075
• Nash IS, Jollis JG. Is more better? Am Heart J. 2002 May;143(5):745-7. PMID 12040332
• Mansi IA, Nash IS. Ethnic differences in the ST segment of the electrocardiogram: a comparative study among six ethnic groups. Am J Emerg Med. 2001 Nov;19(7):541-4. PMID 11698997
• Mansi IA, Nash IS. Ethnic differences in electrocardiographic intervals and axes. J Electrocardiol. 2001 Oct;34(4):303-7. PMID 11590557
• Nash IS. Web alert. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2001 Jul;3(4):258-9. PMID 11439932
• Nash IS. Web alert. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2001 May;3(3):175-6. PMID 11383520
• Nash IS. Web alert. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2001 Jan;3(1):1. PMID 11349639
• Nash IS. Web alert. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2000 May;2(3):173-4. PMID 11203022
• Nash IS. Web alert. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2000 Mar;2(2):81-2. PMID 11203021
• Nash IS. Web alert. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2000 Jan;2(1):3-5. PMID 11203020