Dr. Amit Alam

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Amit H. Alam, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. Dr. Alam specializes in Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, particularly caring for adults at high risk of developing heart failure. He has clinical expertise in using remote monitoring technologies, such as the cardioMEMS, to improve patient outcomes in heart failure. His research interests focus on noninvasive methods to assess transplanted hearts and understand rejection mechanisms in transplant patients. Dr. Alam has been actively involved in professional societies, including the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America. He completed his fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant at Baylor University Medical Center and has further training in Cardiovascular Disease from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. His educational background includes an MD from SUNY Downstate and an Internal Medicine residency at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

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Bachelor's degree from accredited institution Strong background in biological, chemical, physical, or mathematical sciences
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Specialization Notes

Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.