Ph.D. Students

Saif S. Rathore, M.P.H.
Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology

saif.rathore@yale.edu

Saif Rathore's interests include assessments of cardiovascular disease and its impact on patient health status, evaluations of treatment effectiveness and patterns of care, inter-group variations in the efficacy of cardiovascular treatments, particularly among sociodemographic subpopulations, and discussions of emerging therapies, including those directed primarily at the unique cardiovascular disease burden of older patients. This work has predominantly involved the use of clinical databases and the application of epidemiologic and biostatistical methods.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

M.P.H. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000
B.A. Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, 1996

Awards and Honors

American College of Physicians National Medical Student Abstract Contest Award, 2005 Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting Mack Lipkin Senior Award, 2003 American Heart Association Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Award Finalist, 2001 Delta Omega, inducted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000 Honorary Citizenship, Huntsville, Alabama, 1991

Experience

Research Assistant, Clinical Economics Research Unit, Division of General Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 1996-1999
Research Assistant, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1999-2000
Research Fellow, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine (YSM), 2000-2001
Lecturer, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, YSM, 2001-2003

Publications

Vaccarino, V., Rathore, S.S., Wenger, N.K., Frederick, P.D., Abramson, J.L., Barron, H.V., Manhapra, A., Mallik, S., and Krumholz, H.M. for the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction Investigators. Sex and Racial Differences in the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction, 1994 through 2002. New England Journal of Medicine 353: 671-682, 2005.

Rathore, S.S. and Krumholz, H.M. Differences, Disparities, and Biases: Clarifying Racial Variations in Health Care Use. Annals of Internal Medicine 141: 635-638, 2004.

Rathore, S.S., Curtis, J.P., Wang, Y., Bristow, M.R., and Krumholz, H.M. Association of Serum Digoxin Concentration and Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure. Journal of the American Medical Association 289: 871-878, 2003.

Rathore, S.S., Wang, Y., and Krumholz, H.M. Sex-based Differences in the Effect of Digoxin for the Treatment of Heart Failure. New England Journal of Medicine 347: 1403-1411, 2002.

Wu, W-C, Rathore, S.S., Wang, Y., Radford, M.J., and Krumholz, H.M. Blood Transfusion in Elderly Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. New England Journal of Medicine 345: 1230-1236, 2001.

For a further list of Saif Rathore's publications, please see PubMed.