Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD MSc FACP FCCP FCCM FACC FAHA FSCAI is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is an Interventional and Critical Care Cardiologist, the Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Rhode Island Hospital, the Miriam Hospital and Brown University Health Cardiovascular Institute.
He attended medical school at Manipal University in India, trained in Internal Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha Nebraska, Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, and Interventional Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta Georgia. He also received his Masters of Science in Clinical and Translational Science from the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Rochester Minnesota. He is a quintuple board-certified physician in Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography, and Internal Medicine. His work in implementation science and outcomes research encompasses the fields of cardiogenic shock, acute myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention, percutaneous mechanical circulatory support, non-cardiac organ failure, septic shock, septic cardiomyopathy, and circulatory shock.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Critical Care Medicine, American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He serves on multiple leadership committees with the ACC, AHA, SCAI, SCCM. He has mentored over 100 medical students, residents and fellows during the last 12 years and taught many more in over 200 lectures in this period. He is a highly published clinical researcher with over 350 peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals, 200 peer reviewed abstracts, and over 250 regional, national, and international presentations. His work has been cited more than 6700 times. He has secured multiple research grants from local and national bodies to further his work in acute cardiovascular care. He has co-authored the 2024 ACC-AHA guidelines for the perioperative cardiovascular management for non-cardiac surgery. He is one among only 100 physicians in this country trained in cardiovascular medicine, critical care medicine and interventional cardiology.