Nader Moazami, MD is the Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory support at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Moazami is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He served his internship and residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, and completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Cleveland Clinic in 2001. His major areas of focus have been in Mechanical Circulatory Support and more recently on Heart transplantation.
A prolific researcher, Dr. Moazami has published more than 100 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. He has been the principal investigator on over two dozen trials of new heart assist devices and other therapies for end-stage heart failure. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for several of the heart and transplantation journals.
Dr. Moazami is a frequent speaker and instructor with more than 200 presentations and educational sessions to his credit. His professional memberships include the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Heart Failure Society of America, American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, and American Association for Thoracic Surgery. His professional career has been dedicated to advancing the field of mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation. His most recent accomplishments are in areas of expanding the donor pool for heart transplantation using NRP for DCD heart donations, use of hepatitis C viremic donor hearts, and ethical aspects of NRP. In summer of 2022, his team was the first in the world to complete pig-human xenotransplantation in 2 recently deceased recipients who donated their body to research.