Sumeet S. Chugh MD
Pauline and Harold Price Professor; Director, Division of Clinical Electrophysiology; Associate Director of the Smidt Heart Institute; Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CaliforniaDr. Sumeet S. Chugh is the Pauline and Harold Price Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Section Chief of Clinical Electrophysiology and Associate Director of the Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. He directs the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study now in its 12th year that identifies novel ways of predicting and preventing sudden cardiac death in a community of approximately one million residents. The study is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Gender-Based Differences in Outcomes Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
- Sudden Death in HFpEF
- Score of Five Routinely Assessed Variables Predict Pre-Hospital Sudden Cardiac Death
- Predicting an Acute Coronary Lesion in Cardiac Arrest Patients
- Left Ventricular Mass and the Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death
- Protein Biomarkers Identify Patients Unlikely to Benefit From Primary Prevention ICDs
- Cardiomyocyte Injury Assessed by a Highly Sensitive Troponin Assay and Sudden Cardiac Death in the Community: The Cardiovascular Health Study