Amir Munir, MD

HS Clinical Instructor

Cardiology, Cardiology UCSF Health

I am a cardiologist with a specialization in cardio-oncology and immunology. The specialty of cardio-oncology is focused on the cardiovascular care of cancer patients and survivors who have pre-existing cardiovascular disease, or who may have developed cardiovascular disease from their specific cancer therapies.

I am also a physician-scientist with a research focus on elucidating the mechanisms of cancer therapy cardiotoxicities. New, targeted cancer immunotherapies called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) can cause a rare, but fatal, condition called ICI myocarditis. I am currently defining the essential immune cell populations and pathways of ICI myocarditis in pre-clinical models and human tissue samples.