Rima Arnaout, MD

Education
2021 - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
MD, - Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Internal Medicine Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
SB, - Biology, Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cardiology Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
Honors and Awards
  • Sarnoff Scholar Award, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation, 2013-2015
  • Pierre and Christine Lamond Research Fellow in Cardiology, UCSF, 2012-2013
  • National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Award, NIH, 2011-2013
  • Sarnoff Fellow Award, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation, 2005-2006
  • AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship Award, Voice of America, 2004-2005
Websites
Publications
  1. Sachdeva R, Armstrong AK, Arnaout R, Grosse-Wortmann L, Han BK, Mertens L, Moore RA, Olivieri LJ, Parthiban A, Powell AJ. Novel Techniques in Imaging Congenital Heart Disease: JACC Scientific Statement. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2024. PMID: 38171712


  2. Wang Q, Tang T, Youlton N, Weldy C, Kenney A, Ronen O, Hughes J, Chin E, Sutton S, Agarwal A, Li X, Behr M, Kumbier K, Moravec C, Tang WHW, Margulies K, Cappola T, Butte A, Arnaout R, Brown J, Priest J, Parikh V, Yu B, Ashley E. Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy. Research square 2023. PMID: 38045390


  3. Wang Q, Tang TM, Youlton N, Weldy CS, Kenney AM, Ronen O, Hughes JW, Chin ET, Sutton SC, Agarwal A, Li X, Behr M, Kumbier K, Moravec CS, Tang WHW, Margulies KB, Cappola TP, Butte AJ, Arnaout R, Brown JB, Priest JR, Parikh VN, Yu B, Ashley EA. Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 37987017


  4. Arnaout R. ChatGPT Helped Me Write This Talk Title, but Can It Read an Echocardiogram? Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2023. PMID: 37499771


  5. Dey D, Arnaout R, Antani S, Badano A, Jacques L, Li H, Leiner T, Margerrison E, Samala R, Sengupta PP, Shah SJ, Slomka P, Williams MC, Bandettini WP, Sachdev V. Proceedings of the NHLBI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging: Translation to Patient Care. JACC. Cardiovascular imaging 2023. PMID: 37480904


  6. Chinn E, Arora R, Arnaout R, Arnaout R. ENRICHing medical imaging training sets enables more efficient machine learning. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2023. PMID: 37036945


  7. Arnaout R, Hahn RT, Hung JW, Jone PN, Lester SJ, Little SH, Mackensen GB, Rigolin V, Sachdev V, Saric M, Sengupta PP, Strom JB, Taub CC, Thamman R, Abraham T. The (Heart and) Soul of a Human Creation: Designing Echocardiography for the Big Data Age. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2023. PMID: 37191597


  8. Athalye C, Arnaout R. Domain-guided data augmentation for deep learning on medical imaging. PloS one 2023. PMID: 36952442


  9. Panahiazar M, Bishara AM, Chern Y, Alizadehsani R, Islam SMS, Hadley D, Arnaout R, Beygui RE. Gender-based time discrepancy in diagnosis of coronary artery disease based on data analytics of electronic medical records. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 2022. PMID: 36505372


  10. Arnaout R, Arnaout R. Visualizing omicron: COVID-19 deaths vs. cases over time. PloS one 2022. PMID: 35439253


  11. Dabiri Y, Yao J, Mahadevan VS, Gruber D, Arnaout R, Gentzsch W, Guccione JM, Kassab GS. Mitral Valve Atlas for Artificial Intelligence Predictions of MitraClip Intervention Outcomes. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 2021. PMID: 34957251


  12. Kornblith AE, Addo N, Dong R, Rogers R, Grupp-Phelan J, Butte A, Gupta P, Callcut RA, Arnaout R. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Strategy for Automated View Classification of Pediatric Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021. PMID: 34741469


  13. Arnaout R. Can Machine Learning Help Simplify the Measurement of Diastolic Function in Echocardiography? JACC. Cardiovascular imaging 2021. PMID: 34274276


  14. Arnaout R, Curran L, Zhao Y, Levine JC, Chinn E, Moon-Grady AJ. An ensemble of neural networks provides expert-level prenatal detection of complex congenital heart disease. Nature medicine 2021. PMID: 33990806


  15. Arnaout R.. Intelligence-based medicine. Chang AC, editor Deep learning for medical ultrasound 2021. PMID:


  16. Quer G, Arnaout R, Henne M, Arnaout R. Machine Learning and the Future of Cardiovascular Care: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2021. PMID: 33478654


  17. Behr M, Kumbier K, Cordova-Palomera A, Aguirre M, Ashley E, Butte A, Arnaout R, Brown B, Priest J, Yu B.. Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions bioRxiv 2020. PMID:


  18. Kakarmath S, Esteva A, Arnaout R, Harvey H, Kumar S, Muse E, Dong F, Wedlund L, Kvedar J. Best practices for authors of healthcare-related artificial intelligence manuscripts. NPJ digital medicine 2020. PMID: 33083569


  19. Kornblith A, Addo N, Dong R, Rogers R, Grupp-Phelan J, Butte A, Gupta P, Callcut R, Arnaout R.. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Model for Automated View Classification of Pediatric Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) medRxiv 2020. PMID:


  20. Norgeot B, Quer G, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Torkamani A, Dias R, Gianfrancesco M, Arnaout R, Kohane IS, Saria S, Topol E, Obermeyer Z, Yu B, Butte AJ. Minimum information about clinical artificial intelligence modeling: the MI-CLAIM checklist. Nature medicine 2020. PMID: 32908275


  21. Sengupta PP, Shrestha S, Berthon B, Messas E, Donal E, Tison GH, Min JK, D'hooge J, Voigt JU, Dudley J, Verjans JW, Shameer K, Johnson K, Lovstakken L, Tabassian M, Piccirilli M, Pernot M, Yanamala N, Duchateau N, Kagiyama N, Bernard O, Slomka P, Deo R, Arnaout R. Proposed Requirements for Cardiovascular Imaging-Related Machine Learning Evaluation (PRIME): A Checklist: Reviewed by the American College of Cardiology Healthcare Innovation Council. JACC. Cardiovascular imaging 2020. PMID: 32912474


  22. Arnaout R, Curran L, Zhao Y, Levine J, Chinn E, Moon-Grady A.. Expert-level prenatal detection of complex congenital heart disease from screening ultrasound using deep learning medRxiv 2020. PMID:


  23. Arnaout R, Nah G, Marcus G, Tseng Z, Foster E, Harris IS, Divanji P, Klein L, Gonzalez J, Parikh N. Pregnancy complications and premature cardiovascular events among 1.6 million California pregnancies. Open heart 2019. PMID: 30997125


  24. Arnaout R. Toward a clearer picture of health. Nature medicine 2019. PMID: 30613101


  25. Guerra A, Germano RF, Stone O, Arnaout R, Guenther S, Ahuja S, Uribe V, Vanhollebeke B, Stainier DY, Reischauer S. Distinct myocardial lineages break atrial symmetry during cardiogenesis in zebrafish. eLife 2018. PMID: 29762122


  26. Madani A, Arnaout R, Mofrad M, Arnaout R. Fast and accurate view classification of echocardiograms using deep learning. NPJ digital medicine 2018. PMID: 30828647


  27. Brown D, Samsa LA, Ito C, Ma H, Batres K, Arnaout R, Qian L, Liu J. Neuregulin-1 is essential for nerve plexus formation during cardiac maturation. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 2017. PMID: 29265764


  28. Gut P, Reischauer S, Stainier DYR, Arnaout R. LITTLE FISH, BIG DATA: ZEBRAFISH AS A MODEL FOR CARDIOVASCULAR AND METABOLIC DISEASE. Physiological reviews 2017. PMID: 28468832


  29. Madani A, Arnaout R, Mofrad M, Arnaout R.. Fast and accurate classification of echocardiograms using deep learning ArXiv e-prints. 2017. PMID:


  30. Brown D, Samsa L, Ito C, Ma H, Arnaout R, Qian L, Liu J.. Neuregulin-1 is essential for nerve plexus formation during cardiac maturation Journal of Molecular and Cellular Medicine. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.13408 2017. PMID:


  31. Orr N, Arnaout R, Gula LJ, Spears DA, Leong-Sit P, Li Q, Tarhuni W, Reischauer S, Chauhan VS, Borkovich M, Uppal S, Adler A, Coughlin SR, Stainier DY, Gollob MH. A mutation in the atrial-specific myosin light chain gene (MYL4) causes familial atrial fibrillation. Nature communications 2016. PMID: 27066836


  32. Arnaout R, Reischauer S, Stainier DY. Recovery of adult zebrafish hearts for high-throughput applications. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2014. PMID: 25548868


  33. Arnaout R, Stainier DY. Developmental biology: physics adds a twist to gut looping. Current biology : CB 2011. PMID: 22032191


  34. Arnaout R, Thorson A. Late Recognition of Malignant Vasovagal Syncope. Cardiac electrophysiology clinics 2010. PMID: 28770764


  35. Chi NC, Shaw RM, Jungblut B, Huisken J, Ferrer T, Arnaout R, Scott I, Beis D, Xiao T, Baier H, Jan LY, Tristani-Firouzi M, Stainier DY. Genetic and physiologic dissection of the vertebrate cardiac conduction system. PLoS biology 2008. PMID: 18479184


  36. Arnaout R, Ferrer T, Huisken J, Spitzer K, Stainier DY, Tristani-Firouzi M, Chi NC. Zebrafish model for human long QT syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007. PMID: 17592134