Specialty
General Cardiology
Contact Dr. James Youssef
Office Locations
100 Hight Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Map/Directions
705 Maple Road
Williamsville, NY 14221
Map/Directions
Education:
- Fellowship, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial Hospital
- Fellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, State University of New York at Buffalo
- School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- Fellowship, Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, New York Presbyterian- Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
- Residency, Internal Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo
- School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- Doctor of Medicine, St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine
- Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Accreditations/Associations
- Heart Failure Society of America
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
- American Society of Echocardiography- Fellow Member
- Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- American College of Cardiology- Fellow Member
- American College of Physicians -Associate Member
Certifications
- Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology- Nuclear Cardiology
- American Board of Internal Medicine- Internal Medicine
- Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance-Level III Certified in Cardiac MRI
- Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- ECFMG Certified
Honors/Awards
- University at Buffalo-William M and Stanley A. Bukowski award for outstanding resident
Publications/Presentations
- Youssef James, Varjabedian Leon et.al. (2018) Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Tumors and Masses. Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography 70: 1461-1525.
- Youssef James, Ivanov Alexander, Heitner John et.al “Evaluating change of function after revascularization in patients with multi vessel coronary artery disease, severely reduced left ventricular systolic function and no scar on CMR imaging. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Imaging 2015; 65(10_S): doi: 10.1016/S0735-1097 (15) 61137-8
- Chen On, Youssef James, Ivanov Alexander, Heitner John et al. “Correlation between pericardial, mediastinal and intrathoracic fat volume and coronary artery disease, metabolic syndrome and cardiac risk factors.” European Heart Journal- Cardiovascular Imaging 2014 Sep 16. Epub 2014 Sep 16.
- Ivanov Alexander, Youssef James, Tailon Jordan, Laurence Dennis et al. “Do pulmonary function tests improve risk stratification before cardiothoracic surgery?" The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Volume 151, Issue 4, Pages 1183–1189.e3, April 2016.
- Chopra Tushar, Youssef James et al. “An elusive pathogen comes to light; A rare case of disseminated Mycobacterium szulgai in a patient with lung transplant” Chest: October 2012; 142(4_MeetingAbstracts): 273A.
- Youssef James, Kamouh Abdallah.”Epinephrine-Induced Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Versus Kounis Syndrome” University at Buffalo: Division of cardiovascular disease April 2013. Presented at 1st Annual University at Buffalo Research Day.
