Clinical Focus

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Cardiovascular Medicine

Honors and Awards

• Winner, Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association (2010)
• Finalist, Young Investigator Award, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2009)
• Recipient, Frances & John Bowes Cardiovascular Research Fellowship, UCSF Medical Center (2008-2009)
• Finalist, Young Investigators Award, American Heart Association (2008)
• Chief Cardiology Fellow, UCSF Medical Center (2006-2007)

Professional Education

Current Research Interests

My research focuses on imaging cell signaling in the heart. I am developing molecular imaging probes that track to injured heart tissue, such that non-invasive imaging techniques, like cardiac MRI, can visualize these probe signals in real-time. The translational goal of my research is to develop new ways to detect early cardiac injury before permanent damage occurs, so that preventive medical therapy can be started.

Publications

• A molecular MRI probe to detect treatment of cardiac apoptosis in vivo. Dash R, Chung J, Chan T, Yamada M, Barral J, Nishimura D, Yang PC, Simpson PC. Magn Reson Med. 2011; 66 (4): 1152-62
• Dual manganese-enhanced and delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI detects myocardial border zone injury in a pig ischemia-reperfusion model. Dash R, Chung J, Ikeno F, Hahn-Windgassen A, Matsuura Y, Bennett MV, Lyons JK, Teramoto T, Robbins RC, McConnell MV, Yeung AC, Brinton TJ, Harnish PP, Yang PC. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011; 4 (5): 574-82
• In vivo molecular MRI of cell survival and teratoma formation following embryonic stem cell transplantation into the injured murine myocardium. Chung J, Kee K, Barral JK, Dash R, Kosuge H, Wang X, Weissman I, Robbins RC, Nishimura D, Quertermous T, Reijo-Pera RA, Yang PC. Magn Reson Med. 2011; 66 (5): 1374-81
• Theranostic effect of serial manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of human embryonic stem cell derived teratoma. Chung J, Dash R, Kee K, Barral JK, Kosuge H, Robbins RC, Nishimura D, Reijo-Pera RA, Yang PC. Magn Reson Med. 2011
• Differential regulation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase mediates gender-dependent catecholamine-induced hypertrophy. Dash R, Schmidt AG, Pathak A, Gerst MJ, Biniakiewicz D, Kadambi VJ, Hoit BD, Abraham WT, Kranias EG. Cardiovasc Res. 2003; 57 (3): 704-14