Principal investigator

Research Areas: Cardiovascular quality of care and outcomes research, health services research, health equity, performance measurement, telehealth for chronic cardiovascular care management,  preventative cardiology, cardiovascular epidemiology.

Dr. Ziaeian is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, general cardiologist, and interested in evaluating and improving the receipt of evidence-based therapies for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events and mortality. He is currently funded by the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health. His projects are focused on understanding how access to care and geospatial distance influence the quality of heart failure care received. He has also led a novel implementation of Bayesian epidemiologic modeling to understand the national burden of ischemic strokes and the quality of hospital care delivered. He serves as a member of the Writing Committee on the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology guideline committees for Performance Measurement and the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. He is a Core Investigator at the VA Greater Los Angeles Center for the Study of Healthcare, Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP). He also serves as the Director of Telecardiology at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.

Ongoing Registries: American Heart Association – Get With the Guidelines Programs (Heart Failure, Stroke)

Publications:

1. Boback Ziaeian, Yan Zhang, Nancy M. Albert, Anne B. Curtis, Mihai Gheorghiade, J. Thomas Heywood, Mandeep R. Mehra, Christopher M. O’Connor, Dwight Reynolds, Mary N. Walsh, Clyde W. Yancy, Gregg C. Fonarow. Clinical Effectiveness of CRT and ICD Therapy in Heart Failure Patients by Racial/Ethnic Classification: Insights from the IMPROVE HF Registry. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2014 August 26;64(8):797-807.
2. Boback Ziaeian, Gregg C. Fonarow. Epidemiology and aetiology of heart failure. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 2016 Jun;13(6):368-78.
3. Boback Ziaeian, Adrian F. Hernandez, Adam D. DeVore, Jingjing Wu, Haolin Xu, Paul A. Heidenreich, Roland A. Matsouaka, Deepak L. Bhatt MD, Clyde W. Yancy, Gregg C. Fonarow. Long-Term Outcomes for Heart Failure Patients with and without Diabetes: From the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. American Heart Journal. 2019 Jan 27;211:1-10

PubMed Bibliography link (optional)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/boback.ziaeian.2/bibliography/public/

PI Contact information: Email or lab contact

bziaeian@mednet.ucla.edu