Shashank S. Sinha, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA is a triple board-certified Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Cardiologist at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, where he serves as Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology, and Director of the Cardiovascular Critical Care Research Program and Director of the Inova Cardiogenic Shock Program. He is an Assistant Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Sinha received his undergraduate degree, cum laude in Applied Mathematics, from Harvard University and his medical degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He was selected to the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies and received the Pritzker Leadership Award. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, earning the Maurice F. Attie Senior Resident Teaching Award. During his residency training, he completed the inaugural two-year certificate program in Healthcare Leadership in Quality at the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently served as a medical intensive care unit hospitalist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He matriculated to the University of Michigan, where he completed his clinical fellowship training in cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. Dr. Sinha also completed a two-year research fellowship and Master’s program in Health and Health Care Research at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation during his NIH T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program.

He has a strong clinical and scientific interest in improving the quality of care for patients experiencing cardiac critical illness, including cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, and acute decompensated heart failure. He has authored > 140 publications in top-tier journals (h index 32) including British Medical Journal, JAMA Internal Medicine,  JACC, JACC: Heart Failure, Circulation, Circulation: Heart Failure, and Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. He serves as the site Principal Investigator and Steering Committee member for both the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group and the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network. He served as the Chair of the American College of Cardiology Round Table on the Evaluation and Management of Cardiogenic Shock, which culminated in the first ACC Concise Clinical Guidance published on the topic in JACC. He also serves as Deputy Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure, former Section Editor for the JACC Fellows-in-Training/Early Career Page and as a former CME/Social Media Editor for JACC: Heart Failure. Dr. Sinha has also been recognized with the 2017 American Medical Association’s Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award and was inducted into the American College of Cardiology’s Leadership Academy. He also completed the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute Physician Leadership Development Program as well as the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Transformational Leadership Development Program. Dr. Sinha was recently selected to participate in the Class of 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, a leadership development program organized by centers and foundations of former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson.