Johri | Biomedical and Molecular Sciences | School of Medicine

Amer M Johri MD, MSc, FRCPC, FASE

Position(s)

Professor

Contact Info

johria@queensu.ca

cinq.research@gmail.com

613-549-6666. ext 6255

Twitter: @amerjohri

Dr. Amer Johri is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. He completed his Level III Echo fellowship at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Johri has served on the Boards of the American Society of Echocardiography and Canadian Society of Echo. He is the immediate past Chair of the American Society of Echo (ASE) Circulation and Vascular Ultrasound (CAVUS) Council. He is the founding editor and publisher of POCUSjournal.com. He is currently the Treasurer and Executive Board member of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography.

His research focuses on the innovation of ultrasound-based techniques to enhance CV risk stratification. Current thematic areas include cardiopulmonary POCUS, CV screening of special populations such as women and indigenous peoples, analysis of vulnerable atherosclerotic carotid plaque through 3D, composition, and novel ultrasound contrast applications. He is the founder and director of the CINQ Lab which is currently pursuing collaborations in the areas of artificial intelligence for vascular analysis. The CINQ lab has formal research partnerships with several major industrial organizations and global networks.

Dr. Johri holds multiple CIHR grants as PI and is a Heart and Stroke Foundation clinician-scientist. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. He was chair of the ASE guideline for the assessment of carotid arterial plaque by ultrasound. He also chaired the recent ASE POCUS for COVID-19 Assessment statement. Dr. Johri is passionate about education and curates the podcast for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE) and is an editorial board member. Please see www.cinqlab.com for a list of recent programs, publications, trainees, and awards.

Selected Publications

Dzaye, Omar et al. “Carotid Ultrasound-Based Plaque Score for the Allocation of Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Events: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.” Journal of the American Heart Association vol. 13,12 (2024): e034718. doi:10.1161/JAHA.123.034718
Grubic, Nicholas et al. “Mediators of the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review.” The Canadian journal of cardiology vol. 40,6 (2024): 1088-1101. doi:10.1016/j.cjca.2024.01.002
Kumar, A., Aelgani, V., Vohra, R., Gupta, S.K., Bhagawati, M., Paul, S., Saba, L., Suri, N., Khanna, N.N., Laird, J.R. and Johri, A.M., 2024. Artificial intelligence bias in medical system designs: A systematic review. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 83(6), pp.18005-18057.
Nair, P., Chen-Tournoux, A., Almufleh, A. S., Blissett, S., Ducas, R., Fine, N. M., Johri, A. M., Kushneriuk, D., Ramer, S., Sanfilippo, A., Thibodeau-Jarry, N., Yu, E., Bewick, D., Burwash, I. G., Chow, C. M., Cooley, H., De, S., Douflé, G., Fagan, S. M., Henri, C., Tsang, T. S. M. (2023). 2023 CCS/CSE Standards for Physician Training and Maintenance of Competence in Adult Echocardiography: Executive Summary. The Canadian journal of cardiology, 39(10), 1302–1306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2023.06.418.
Mantella, L, Hetu, M, Colledanchise, K. et al. CAROTID INTRAPLAQUE NEOVASCULARIZATION IS A BETTER PREDICTOR OF LONG-TERM MAJOR ADVERSE CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS IN FEMALES THAN MALES. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Apr, 83 (13_Supplement) 1419.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(24)03409-0
Johri, A. M., Glass, C., Hill, B., Jensen, T., Puentes, W., Olusanya, O., Capizzano, J. N., Dancel, R., Reierson, K., Reisinger, N., Liblik, K., & Galen, B. T. (2023). The Evolution of Cardiovascular Ultrasound: A Review of Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Across Specialties. The American journal of medicine, 136(7), 621–628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.02.020.
Luca Saba, Mahesh Maindarkar, Amer M. Johri, Laura Mantella, John R. Laird, Narendra N. Khanna, Kosmas I. Paraskevas, Zoltan Ruzsa, Manudeep K. Kalra, Jose Fernandes E Fernandes, Seemant Chaturvedi, Andrew Nicolaides, Vijay Rathore, Narpinder Singh, Esma R. Isenovic, Vijay Viswanathan, Mostafa M. Fouda, Jasjit S. Suri. UltraAIGenomics: Artificial Intelligence-Based Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment by Fusion of Ultrasound-Based Radiomics and Genomics Features for Preventive, Personalized and Precision Medicine: A Narrative Review. Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2024, 25(5), 184. https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2505184
Hétu MF, Brooks SC, Chan W, Herr JE, Sivilotti MLA, O'Callaghan N, Latiu V, Newbigging J, Day AG, Norman PA, Hill B, Johri AM. HEART + score: integrating carotid ultrasound to chest pain assessment in the emergency department. CJEM. 2024 May 24. doi: 10.1007/s43678-024-00711-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38789886.
Nielsen RV, Fuster V, Bundgaard H, Fuster JJ, Johri AM, Kofoed KF, Douglas PS, Diederichsen A, Shapiro MD, Nicholls SJ, Nordestgaard BG, Lindholt JS, MacRae C, Yuan C, Newby DE, Urbina EM, Bergström G, Ridderstråle M, Budoff MJ, Bøttcher M, Raitakari OT, Hansen TH, Näslund U, Sillesen H, Eldrup N, Ibanez B. Personalized Intervention Based on Early Detection of Atherosclerosis: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 May 28;83(21):2112-2127. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.02.053. PMID: 38777513.
Expert Panel on Cardiac Imaging, Bolen MA, Bin Saeedan MN, Rajiah P, Ahmad S, Dibble EH, Diercks DB, El-Sherief AH, Farzaneh-Far A, Francois CJ, Galizia MS, Hanneman K, Inacio JR, Johri AM, Khosa F, Krishnamurthy R, Lenge de Rosen V, Singh SP, Teng K, Villines TC, Young PM, Zimmerman SL, Abbara S (2022) ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Dyspnea-Suspected Cardiac Origin (Ischemia Already Excluded): 2021 Update. Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR, Vol. 19(5S):S37-S52.

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