Curriculum Vitae
Research
Interest
Tamara Horwich, MD,
MS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Horwich is a graduate of the
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and
completed her internal medicine and cardiology training at UCLA.
Dr. Horwich’s research has focused on outcomes and management
strategies in the field of heart failure. Dr. Horwich has
published several analyses of patients followed at Ahmanson-UCLA
Cardiomyopathy Center; these studies have delineated novel and
important prognostic factors in patients with advanced heart
failure, including anemia, cholesterol, and body mass index. Dr.
Horwich currently holds an NIH/NHLBI K23 award in order to study
potentially beneficial mechanisms of action of statins in
non-ischemic heart failure. Dr. Horwich’s clinical activities
include attending at the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center and
the UCLA Non Invasive Laboratory.
Repesentative
Publications
Horwich T, Kalantar-Zadeh K,
MacLellan WR, Fonarow GC. Albumin Levels Predict Survival in
Patients with Systolic Heart Failure. Am Heart J 2008 In press.
Fonarow GC, Peacock WF, Horwich TB,
Phillips CO, Givertz MM, Lopatin M, and Wynne J. Usefulness of
B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Cardiac Troponin Levels to Predict
In-Hospital Mortality from ADHERE. Am J Cardiol 2008; 101: 231-7.
Afsarmanesh N, Horwich TB. Fonarow
GC. Total cholesterol levels and mortality risk in nonischemic
systolic heart failure. Am Heart J 2006; 152: 1077-83.
Eshaghian S, Horwich TB, Fonarow
GC. Relation of loop diuretic dose to mortality in advanced heart
failure. Am J Cardiol 2006; 97: 1759-64.
Eshaghian S, Horwich TB, Fonarow
GC. An Unexpected Inverse Relationship Between HbA1c Levels and
Mortality in Patients with Diabetes and Advanced Systolic Heart
Failure. Am Heart J 2006: 151: 91.e1 – 91.e6.
Horwich TB, Hamilton MA, Fonarow
GC. B-type Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Obese Patients with
Advanced Heart Failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006; 47: 85-90.
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