Specialty: Echocardiography
Amy Sarma MD, MHS is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical school and a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined the faculty of the echocardiography lab and Women’s Heart Health program at MGH in 2018, where she plays a central role in the cardiovascular disease and pregnancy program.
Dr. Sarma’s research focuses on sex-differences in cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular disease in pregnancy, and postpartum care delivery for women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. She is a co-investigator on a funded study investigating the impact of a digital home blood pressure monitoring program on readmissions after pre-eclamptic pregnancies. In addition, she is co-leading a multi-site effort to develop a prospective echocardiography registry in the Heart Outcomes in Pregnancy (HOPE) Registry, which will be the first prospective registry of cardiovascular disease in pregnancy in the U.S.
Dr. Sarma’s work has been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of the American Heart Association, and Circulation. She has been honored by the American Heart Association with the Women In Cardiology Trainee Award for Excellence, is an associate scholar in the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program at Harvard, and received the Parker Prize from Yale University School of Medicine. She has also served on the national leadership council of the Women In Cardiology section of the American College of Cardiology and is the current chapter leader for Massachusetts.