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Nicole M. Orr, MD, FACC

Nicole M. Orr, MD, FACC
Post Acute Cardiology Care, LLC
Board Certified in Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology

Advocacy/Committee/Educational Engagements:

Dr. Orr participated in this important initiative to include patients in Post Acute and Long term care in the ACCs efforts to improve Cardiovascular care!

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) Roundtable titled: Navigating Treatment Decisions for Patients with ASCVD and Multiple Comorbidities at ACC’s Heart House in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.

Education

  • Tufts Medical Center
    Clinical Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease
    Boston, MA
  • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
    Residency in Internal Medicine
    Philadelphia, PA
  • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
    Internship in Internal Medicine
    Philadelphia, PA
  • Drexel University College of Medicine
    M.D.
    The Hahnemann Physician’s Society Award for Academic Excelence 2004
    The Joseph Langbord Memorial Prize for Humanitarianism in Medicine 2004
    Drexel University College of Medicine Award for Outstanding Community Service 2003
    Philadelphia, PA
  • Georgetown University
    B.S. Major in Biology. Major in Psychology. Minor in Spanish.
    The Signa Xi Scientific Research Society, associate member of the Georgetown Chapter.
    Washington, DC

Honors

  • Fellow, The American College of Cardiology
  • Humanities Scholar, for Outstanding Work in the Medical Humanities 2004

Publications

Nicole M. Orr, Christine D. Jones, Andrea E. Daddato, Rebecca S. Boxer, Post-acute Care for Patients with Heart Failure, Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports(2018) 12:18 p 2-10 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12170-018-0583-8

Eleonore V. Grant, Adam H. Skolnick, Joshua Chodosh, Michael H. Perskin, Nicole M. Orr, Caroline Blaum, John A. Dodson, Clinical Innovations: Improving Care Through a Bidirectional Geriatric Cardiology Consultative Conference,  (2018) Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Blackwell Publishing Inc. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15356 submitted to Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Dec 17th 2017

Nicole M. Orr, Rebecca S. Boxer, Mary A. Dolansky, et al, Skilled Nursing Facility Care for Patients With Heart Failure: Can We Make It “Heart Failure Ready?” Journal of Cardiac Failure, December 2016, Vol 22 (12) pp 1004-14

Nicole M. Orr, Daniel E. Forman, Giuseppe De Matteis, Giovanni Gambassi, Heart Failure Among Older Adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities: More of a Dilemma Than Many Now Realize, Current Geriatrics Reports, Dec 2015, vol 4 (4) pp 318-329

Susan P. Bell, Nicole M. Orr, John A. Dodson, et al, What to Expect From the Evolving Field of Geriatric Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) 2015 vol 66 (11) 1286-1299

Navin K Kapur, Vikram Paruchuri, Anand Jagannathan, Daniel Steinberg, Anjan K Chakrabarti, Duane Pinto, Nima Aghili, Samer Najjar, John Finley, Nicole M Orr, Michael Tempelhof, James O Mudd, Michael S Kiernan, Duc Thinh Pham, David DeNofrio, Mechanical circulatory support for right ventricular failure. JACC Heart Fail 2013 Apr 1;1(2):127-34.

Eric C. Wooten, PhD; Virginia Bartleson Hebl, MD; Matthew J. Wolf, MD, PhD; Sarah R. Greytak, PhD; Nicole Orr, MD; Isabelle Draper, PhD; Jenna E. Calvino, BA; Navin K. Kapur, MD; Martin S. Maron, MD; Iftikhar J. Kullo, MD; Steve R. Ommen, MD; AQ2 J. Martijn Bos, MD; Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD; Gordon S. Huggins, MD, Formin Homology 2 Domain Containing 3 Variants Associated With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2013;6:00-00

Korabathina R, Heffernan KS, Paruchuri V, Patel AR, Mudd JO, Prutkin JM, Orr NM, Weintraub A, Kimmelstiel CD, Kapur NK. The Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index Identifies Severe Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Acute Inferior Myocardial Infarction. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2012 Oct 1;80(4):593-600

Kim, Dae Hyun MD, MPH, Daskalakis, Constantine ScD, Plumb, James D. MD, MPH, Adams, Suzanne MPH, RN, Brawer, Rickie MPH, PhD, Orr, Nicole MD, Hawthorne, Katie MD, Toto, Erin Cunningham MD, Whellan, David J. MD, MHS. Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Individuals in Low Socioeconomic Communities and Homeless Shelters. Fam Comm Health. 31(4):269-280, October-December 2008.

Hamosh, M, Henderson TR, Kemper, MA., Orr NM, Gil A, Hamosh P. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) during early development: contribution of milk LC-PUFA to accretion rates varies among organs. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 501:397-401, 2001.

Research

  • 2014  Marcus Ståhlberg MD, PhD; Satish C Govind MD, PhD; Nicole M. Orr MD; Aasha S. Gopal; Justine S. Lachmann MD; R Bhagirath MD; S Ramesh MD; Lars H. Lund MD, PhD, Frieder Braunschweig MD, PhD. Utility of remote monitoring using a mobile phone in patients with heart failure: the REMOTE-HF-1 study, Abstract presented at the American Heart Association’s 2014 Scientific Session
  • 2013  Alamelu Ramamurthi; Nicole Orr; Nima Aghili; Jeffrey Kuvin; Ayan Patel; Natesa Pandian, The Use of Continuous-Wave Doppler-determined Left Ventricular Stroke Volume is an Accurate Approach in the Determination of the Severity of Aortic Stenosis by Continuity Equation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013;61 , 10 S. Abstract presented at the American College of Cardiology 63rd Annual Scientific Session, March 2013 San Francisco, CA.
  • 2012  Navin K Kapur, MD, Vikram Paruchuri, MD, Anand Jagannathan, MS, John Finley, MD, Anjan K Chakrabarti, MD, Daniel Steinberg, MD, Nicole M Orr, MD, Michael Tempelhof, MD, Michael S Kiernan, MD, Duc Thinh Pham, MD and David DeNofrio, MD. Mechanical Circulatory Support for Right Ventricular Failure: The TandemHeart in Right Ventricular support (THRIVE) Registry. Abstract presented at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 32nd Annual Meeting April 2012, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2011  Congestive Heart Failure Clinic, St. Francis Hospital – Co-Investigator, with Navin Kapur, MD – Tandem Heart in Right Ventricular failure (THRIVE) study. Retrospective analysis of mechanical support devices for patients with severe right ventricular dysfunction.
  • 2011  Congestive Heart Failure Clinic, St. Francis Hospital – Co-Investigator, with Navin Govind, MD CEO of Aventyn. Remote Monitoring of Heart Failure Patients (REMOTE-HF-1) Study – evaluated heart failure patients with “Vitalbeat,” a specially-designed patient adherence and monitoring software on standard mobile devices to assess utility of a remote monitoring with a mobile device for improved management of at-risk patients. Data presented at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance annual meeting, LaJolla, California, October 2012
  • 2009–2011  Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Tufts Medical Center – Co-Investigator with Natesa Pandian, MD. Novel application of continuous wave Doppler in assessment of aortic stenosis severity to clarify disparities between planimetry and gradient analysis
  • 2010  Navin K. Kapur, Nicole Orr, Michael Kiernan, Chris Pan, Barath Krishnamurthy, Jordan Prutkin, James O. Mudd, Ayan Patel, Carey Kimmelstiel. The Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index (PaPi) is a Sensitive Marker of Complicated Right Ventricular Failure Associated with Inferior ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Abstract presented at the The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Annual Scientific Session, May 2010 San Diego, CA
  • 2010  Orr, Nicole MD, Shah, Amil MD, Kelley-Hedgepeth, Alyson MD, Kramer, Dan, Maron, Marty MD, Huggins, Gordon MD. Nuclear Receptor Co-Activator-1 Modifies the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Phenotype. Abstract presented at the American College of Cardiology 59th Annual Scientific Session, March 2010 Atlanta, GA
  • 2007–2010  Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center – Co-Investigator with Gordon Huggins, MD. Genetic epidemiologic study of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cohort using genomic DNA analysis: created database of 150 patients, investigated the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotype expression.
  • 2006-2007  Jefferson Heart Institute, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Co-Investigator, with David Whellan, MD, MHS. Effect of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular disease outcomes.
  • 2006  Kim, DH, Adams, S, Plumb JD, Daskalis C, Brawer R, Orr N, Hawthorn K, Cunningham EL, Whellan DJ. Prevalence of Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Underserved Populations in Philadelphia. Abstract presented at 46th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, in Association with the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism, March 2006
  • 2005-2007  Jefferson Heart Institute, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Co-Investigator, with David Whellan, MD, MHS. Retrospective analysis of antihypertensive effect on left ventricular hypertrophy regression: generated database of echocardiographic and clinical data of 200 subjects.
  • 1998  Hamosh, M, Henderson TR, Kemper, MA, Orr NM, Gil A, Hamosh P. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) during early development: Accretion rate in key organs differs according to function and exceeds the contribution of milk. FASEB Vol 12(5) p.A201, 1998 (abstract1173). Presented at Experimental Biology 1998 Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  • 1997  Orr NM, Henderson TR, Hamosh, M, Hamosh P, Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) during early development: Relationship between Maternal Milk and Neonatal Adipose Tissue and Brain. Pediatric Research Vol. 41 Part 2 p.237A, 1997 (abstract: 1407). Presented at Pediatric Academic Societies’ 1997 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
  • 1997  Orr NM, Henderson TR, Hamosh, M, Hamosh P. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in the Developing Ferret Brain, FASEB Vol 11 (1) p.A146, 1997 (abstract 850). Presented at Experimental Biology 1997 Meeting, New Orleans, LA
  • 1995-1997  Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University, Lipid Biochemistry – Research Assistant, with Paul Hamosh, MD, PhD; Margit Hamosh, MD. Lipid biochemical analysis of long chain fatty acid accumulation in developing ferret tissue
  • 1995-1997  Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Clinical Neuropsychology – Co-Investigator, with Steven Sabat, PhD. Effect of therapeutic communication on cognition and conversation in Alzheimer’s and dementia patients