Yonatan Akivis

Adept medical doctor with a strong foundation in internal medicine, set to begin cardiology training in July 2024. Passionate about preventive medicine and dedicated to advancing in the field of cardiology through continuous learning and patient care excellence.

• The Association of Echocardiographic Parameters of Diastolic Function and Cardiac Index in Sickle Cell Disease, American Society of Echocardiography, 2023
• Echocardiographic Parameters of Diastolic Function and Tricuspid Regurgitant Jet Velocity in Sickle Cell Disease, American Society of Echocardiography, 2023
• Apathetic Thyrotoxicosis Presenting with New-Onset Pulmonary Hypertension, Annals of Internal Medicine Clinical Cases, 2023 Feb
• Cardiac Multimodality Imaging in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: What to Look for and When to Image, Curr Cardiol Rev, 2023 Mar 16
• Tuberculous Pericarditis Presenting As Cardiac Tamponade, American College of Cardiology, 2023 March
• Statin-Induced Necrotizing Autoimmune Myositis, J Med Cases, 2022 Oct
• Association of Vaccination Rates and Health Beliefs in Inner-city Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs), American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2019, 73, 5, 702
• Impact of Full Dose Anticoagulation in Hospitalized Predominantly Black Patients with SARS-COV-2 infection: A Retrospective Single Center Experience, Chest, 2020, 158, 4
• Rates and Mechanisms of Bacterial Mutagenesis from Maximum-Depth Sequencing, Nature, 2016, 534, 693–696
• The Effect of Aging on Urine Natriuretic Peptides in Nocturia and Nocturnal Polyuria, The Journal of Urology, 2022, 207, 5, 295
• Association of Food Quality, Stress and Anxiety with Weight Gain in Kidney Transplant Recipients, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2019, 73, 5, 702
• Incidental Portal Vein Aneurysm Found in a Patient with a Diaphragmatic Hernia and Evolving Gastric Volvulus, American Journal of Hospital Medicine, April 2020

Sickle Cell Disease and the Heart, The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

• Association of Vaccination Rates and Health Beliefs in Inner-city Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs), American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, June 2019
• Incidental Portal Vein Aneurysm Found in a Patient with a Diaphragmatic Hernia and Evolving Gastric Volvulus, International Vein Congress, Miami, Fl (virtual), July 2020

• SUNY Downstate, Department of Cardiology, 03/2022 - present, Brooklyn, NY, Sabu John, M.D., Conducted a retrospective analysis characterizing the cardiomyopathy observed in sickle cell disease.
• SUNY Downstate, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 03/2020 - 01/2021, Brooklyn, NY, Aaliya Burza, M.D., Conducted a retrospective analysis early in the pandemic exploring the relationship between full-dose anticoagulation and mortality in critically ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
• SUNY Downstate, Department of Nephrology, 05/2018 - 06/2019, Brooklyn, NY, Mariana Markell, M.D., Surveyed our inner-city transplant cohort to assess and characterize health beliefs around vaccines.
• Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Microbiology, 07/2016 - 07/2017, New York, NY, Dirk Schnappinger, PhD, Studied protein interaction within the rpoA region of RNA polymerase in M. smegmatis.
• NYU, Department of Biochemistry, 05/2014 - 01/2015, New York, NY, Evgeny Nudler, PhD, Combined Luria and Delbruck experiment with maximum-depth sequencing to calculate site-specific mutation rates of antibiotic-induced mutagenesis in E. coli.

• Alumni Association Grant, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Received a grant for travel expenses to present my research findings at the American Transplant Congress in Boston.
• Brandeis Genesis Institute Fellow, Brandeis University, Our mission was to inspire the Jewish community of Soviet heritage to engage in Jewish life and strengthen our communal ties, domestically and internationally. Received a scholarship for my sophomore and junior year of college.