Madhan Shanmugasundaram (Sundaram), MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Program Director of Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology Fellowships
Director of Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Endovascular Services, Banner - University Medical Center, Tucson

AHSC 5153

520-626-8927
msundaram@shc.arizona.edu

Dr. Sundaram is an interventional cardiologist, seeing patients at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, North Campus. He has published in various scientific journals and has authored numerous textbook chapters. He is also an expert peer reviewer for various geriatrics, cardiology and critical care journals. He also serves as a member of a scientific advisory board, faculty of the International Academy of Cardiology and World Congress of Cardiology. He has received young investigator travel awards from the Heart Failure Society of America and the American Heart Association. He serves as faculty for various national interventional cardiology meetings and as a question writer for ACC CATHSAP.

Degree(s)

  • MBBS: P.S.G. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, India, 2005
Residency
Chief Resident, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Internal Medicine, 2007-2011
Fellowship
University of Kentucky, Peripheral Vascular and Structural Heart Disease, 2015-2016
University of Kentucky, Interventional Cardiology, 2014-2015
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Cardiovascular Disease, 2011-2014
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, Interventional Cardiology, 2015
American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, 2014
National Board of Echocardiography, 2013
American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2010
Honors and Awards
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, 7/2010 – 6/2011
Associate Reynolds Scholar in Aging, 2010
Biography included in Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2011
Expert Reviewer Heart Journal, Clinical Lipidology, European Heart Journal, American Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2011
Chief Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, 7/2013 – 6/2014
Faculty, ACC Fellows in Training Medical Jeopardy, 2014
Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Faculty of International Academy of Cardiology and World Congress of Cardiology, 2014 - present
Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC), 2016 - present
International Faculty, 68th Annual Conference of Cardiological Society of India, Kochi, India, 2016
Invited Lecture at the 22nd World Congress on Heart Disease, International Academy of Cardiology, Annual Scientific Sessions 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Early Career Award, Cardiovascular Innovations (CVI 2017), Denver, CO
Young Leadership Award, Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT 2018), Washington, DC, 2017 - 2018
Invited Faculty, Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT 2018), Washington, DC, 2017 - 2018
Board of Directors, Biomedical Research and Education Foundation of Southern Arizona (BREFSA), 2017
Associate Reviewer Program, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Journal, 2017
Chair, Quality Committee and AZ ACC Board Member, Arizona State ACC Chapter, 2017-2019
Invited Faculty, Complex Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Orlando, FL, 2018
Invited Faculty, Cardiovascular Innovations (CVI 2018), Denver, CO, 2018
First in Service Award, Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Tucson, AZ, 2018
Graduate, Virtual Aspiring Leadership Program (VA enterprise wide leadership program), 2018
Fellow of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI), 2018
Member, Vascular Disease Council, SCAI, 2018
Invited Faculty, SCAI Scientific Session, Las Vegas, NV, 2019
Invited Faculty, CRT 2019, Washington, DC, 2019 CATHSAP Performance Question Writer
Abstract Reviewer, SCAI 2019
Abstract Reviewer, CRT 2019
Acting Chair of Research and Development Committee, Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, 2019
Invited Faculty, Complex Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Orlando, FL, 2019
Emerging Leader Mentorship, SCAI ELM Circle Member Invited Faculty, CRT 2020, Washington, DC, 2019-2021
Sarver Heart Center Cardiology Fellowship Program Procedural Teaching Faculty of the Year Award, 2019-2020
Clinical Specialties
Complex Coronary Interventions
Chronic Total Occlusions
Endovascular Peripheral Interventions
Interventions for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Structural Heart Disease Interventions
Research Interests

applicability of various cardiac interventions in older adults, clinical trials in coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, pulmonary embolism, acute coronary syndrome, hyperlipidemia, use of adjunctive atherectomy in endovascular interventions