Dr. Shashank Sinha

Shashank Sinha, MD, MS, is a cardiologist specializing in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. He serves as Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Director of the Cardiovascular Critical Care Research Program at Inova Fairfax Hospital, and is Director of the Inova Health System Cardiogenic Shock Program. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His clinical focus includes advanced heart failure and transplant care, cardiovascular critical care, and mechanical circulatory support and acute cardiac care pathways. His research centers on quality and outcomes in cardiac critical care, health services and implementation science in cardiovascular care, and multicenter collaborative trials and registries. Dr. Sinha serves as Deputy Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure and has held editorial roles with JACC: Heart Failure and the JACC Fellows-in-Training/Early Career page. He contributes nationally through the American College of Cardiology Heart Failure and Transplant Section Leadership Council and the ACC Leadership Academy, and serves as a site principal investigator for multicenter critical care cardiology networks. His honors include the AMA Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award, the Pritzker Leadership Award, recognition by Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society, the Maurice F. Attie Senior Resident Teaching Award, and graduation from the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program. Dr. Sinha earned his medical degree with honors from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowships at the University of Michigan, where he also completed a research fellowship and a master’s in Health and Health Care Research.