Uri Elkayam, MDis a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
After completing with honors the first 3 years of medical school at the University of Vienna, Austria, he graduated and received his medical degree from Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University in Israel. Following his graduation, Dr. Elkayam completed a rotating internship and a residency in internal medicine at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel, which were followed by a clinical fellowship in Cardiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and a one year research fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
After the completion of his training, Dr. Elkayam assumed the position of Director of the Coronary Care Unit at the University of California, Irvine in 1979 and relocated to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1981, where he served in a number of positions including, Director of In-Patient Cardiology at LAC+USC Medical Center, Chief of Cardiology at USC University Hospital, Acting Chief of Cardiologyat USC School of Medicine. Dr. Elkayam became a full professor of medicine with tenure at the University of Southern California in 1989.
Dr. Elkayam research interests include congestive heart failure, vascular biology, renal vasoregulation, cardiovascular pharmacology, nitrate tolerance and heart disease in pregnancy. He has been involved in more then 100 self initiated, NIH and industry funded research projects and he has served on the steering committees of multiple mulitcenter studies, including PRAISE I, PRAISE II, MACH-1, ACTIVE-CHF, ALIVE, ESCAPE and PURE II. and has served as a member of the endpoint committee of the STAMINA-HeFT study and is a member of the DSMB of the ongoing study BLOCK-HF
Dr. Elkayam’s publications include over 170 peer review articles and 80 book chapters. Dr. Elkayam also co-edited 3 editions of the books, Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy and Principle and Practice of Medical Therapy in Pregnancy.
Dr. Elkayam is a member of the executive council of the American Society of Cardiac Failure and the chairman of the corporate affairs committee. He has been a member of many national and international committees and advisory boards and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiac Failure, Heart Failure, Journal of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiology Journal. in addition to that Dr. Elkayam has served as the chairman of an annual educational symposium on heart failure therapy in Los Angeles for over 20 years and was the chairman of the 1st International Congress on Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy in Valencia, Spain in 2010. Dr. Elkayam has been a member of the scientific advisory board of a large number of national and international scientific meetings. He has chaired and annual USC symposium on heart failure for over two decades and was the chairman of the 1st international congress on cardiac problems in pregnancy in Valencia, Spain in 2010.
Dr. Elkayam has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Melvin L. Marcus Memorial Award for Distinguish Contribution as a gifted teacher 8th World Congress of Heart Failure in 2002 and the Richard H. Paul MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Distinguish Teaching Award at the University of Southern California in 2002 and the Distinguished Fellowship Award from the International Academy of Cardiology in 2007. Dr. Elkayam has the distinction of being listed in Best Doctors in America (2000-2007) and Americas Top Doctors (2001-2007).
