Samer S. Najjar, MD

Samer S. Najjar, MD, is the Director of Heart Failure at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. He specializes in advanced therapies for heart failure, including the medical management of heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices.

Prior to these positions, Dr. Najjar was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and he was the Director of the Heart Failure clinic at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was also the Head of the Human Cardiovascular Studies Unit at the National Institute on Aging. 

Clinical Expertise:

• Cardiology

Practice Focus

• Advanced Heart Failure
• Heart Transplantation

Phone

• 202-877-8085

Education

• AB, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 1986 – 1989
• MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., 1989 – 1993

Residency      

• Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., 1994 – 1996

Fellowship

• Cardiovascular Diseases, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., 1996 – 1999
• Training in Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., 1999 – 2000

Credentialed Areas

• American Board of Internal Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease

Honors, Awards, & Society Memberships

• Alpha Omega Alpha
• American College of Cardiology/Merck Cardiology Fellowship Award
• American Heart Association, Council on Clinical Cardiology
• American College of Cardiology

Additional Training, Education, & Research

• More than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Research interests
  • Arterial-ventricular coupling
  • Cardiovascular aging
  • Clinical heart failure