Sean Patrick Pinney is an American

cardiologist Cardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery di ...

and the Director of both the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at

Mount Sinai Medical Center Mount Sinai Hospital, formerly at times known as Mount Sinai Medical Center, is a 319-bed major urban hospital in Chicago, Illinois, with its main campus located adjacent to Douglass Park at 15th Street and California Avenue on the city's West Si ...

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. He is an Associate Professor of Cardiology at

Mount Sinai School of Medicine The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sina ...

, the author of over 20 publications in peer-reviewed

medical journals Medical literature is the scientific literature of medicine: articles in journals and texts in books devoted to the field of medicine. Many references to the medical literature include the health care literature generally, including that of denti ...

and of multiple book chapters. He lectures frequently on the topic of

cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumati ...

Biography

Pinney was born in

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Miss ...

, graduating from St. Louis Priory School in 1986; he received his undergraduate degree from

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

in 1990 and graduated from

Georgetown University School of Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine, a medical school opened in 1851, is one of Georgetown University's five graduate schools, and is the most applied-to medical school in the nation with a matriculation rate of 1.40%. It is located on Res ...

in 1994. He completed a residency at Deaconess Hospital, in

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

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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. Pinney is a reviewer for the medical journals ''

The Medical Letter ''The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics'' (commonly referred to as ''The Medical Letter'') is a peer-reviewed biweekly medical journal providing evaluations of pharmaceutical drugs. It is published in English, French, and Italian. The journ ...

'', '' 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 The American College of Cardiology (ACC), based in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit medical association established in 1949. It bestows credentials upon cardiovascular specialists who meet its qualifications. Education is a core component of the ...

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
*2000 – Cardiology Fellowship Research Award,

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

*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 The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate Heart, cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability ...

* 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 The American College of Physicians (ACP) is a Philadelphia-based national organization of internal medicine physicians, who specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of adults. With 161,000 members, ACP is the largest medical-specialty or ...

*1995-1998,

Massachusetts Medical Society The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) is the oldest continuously operating state medical association in the United States. Incorporated on November 1, 1781, by an act of the Massachusetts General Court, the MMS is a non-profit organization t ...

*1992-1998,

American Medical Association The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. This medical association was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Membership was 271,660 ...

Publications

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References

External links

Mount Sinai HospitalMount Sinai School of MedicineAmerican College of CardiologyAmerican Heart AssociationAmerican Society of Transplantation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinney, Sean P. American cardiologists American medical academics Living people Physicians from St. Louis Georgetown University School of Medicine alumni Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty Fellows of the American College of Cardiology Year of birth missing (living people)