Rate My Professor Kamran Shamsa

Kamran Shamsa serves as HS Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, within the Division of Cardiology. He received his MD degree from the UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2004. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine in 2005 and 2008, respectively, followed by a fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at UCLA School of Medicine in 2011. He holds board certifications in Internal Medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease from the American Board of Internal Medicine, Echocardiography from the American Society of Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology from the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology.

Shamsa has authored or co-authored numerous publications in cardiology and related fields. These include Retinal Vascular Patterns After Operative Repair of Aortic Isthmic Coarctation in the American Journal of Cardiology in 2010, Circumferential type A aortic dissection and intimal intussusception of the aorta causing severe aortic regurgitation and obstruction of the left main coronary artery in Echocardiography in 2013, Cardiovascular complications of radiation exposure in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2014, Dazed, confused, and asystolic: possible signs of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis in the Texas Heart Institute Journal in 2015, Temporal Pattern and Prognostic Significance of Hypokalemia in Patients Undergoing Targeted Temperature Management Following Cardiac Arrest in the American Journal of Cardiology in 2017, Preventing a Catastrophe: Increasing Awareness of Loeys-Dietz Syndrome in the Texas Heart Institute Journal in 2019, Initial changes in peak aortic jet velocity and mean gradient predict progression to severe aortic stenosis in the International Journal of Cardiology Heart & Vasculature in 2020, Prognostic implications of pre-existing medical comorbidity in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in Heart and Vessels in 2021, Elevated Troponin Results in a Patient on Immunotherapy for Crohn's Disease in the Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine in 2021, Intracardiac Aspergilloma in a Post-Transplant Patient: A Multimodal Approach to Diagnosis in JACC: Case Reports in 2021, Management of High-Grade Coronary Artery Disease and Concomitant Glanzmann Thrombasthenia in JACC: Case Reports in 2021, Is it the Time to Move Towards Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography-Derived Fractional Flow Reserve Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention? The Pros and the Cons in Current Cardiology Reviews in 2023, and Cardiovascular Assessment of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in 2025. He has been recognized as a Super Doctor in Southern California for 2024 through 2026.