Pervaiz Chaudhry, MD, FACS
Dr. Pervaiz Chaudhry is board-certified in thoracic surgery. He is a staff surgeon at Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital, Community Medical Centers, and Children's Hospital Central California.

Education
- Doctor of Medicine 1995
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan - Bachelor of Science 1991, Chemistry
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
General Educational Training
- Henry Ford Health System 1995-1996
General Surgery, Detroit, Michigan - Henry Ford Health System 1995-2001
General Surgery, Detroit, Michigan - Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute 1998-2000
Cardiovascular Research, Detroit, Michigan - University of California, Los Angeles 2004-2005
Cardiothoracic Surgery - University of California, Los Angeles 2004-2005
Congenital Heart Surgery - University of California, Los Angeles 2002-2004 2004-2005
Heart and Lung Transplant
Societies
- American College of Surgeons
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Licensure
- California
- Michigan
Professional Appointment
- Valley Cardiac Surgery Medical Group, Employee 2005-Present
- Saint Agnes Medical Center, Staff Surgeon 2005-Present
- Fresno Heart Hospital, Staff Surgeon 2005-Present
- Fresno Community Hospital, Staff Surgeon 2005-Present
- Children’s Hospital Central California, Staff Surgeon 2005-Present
Lecture/Research
- Surgical Treatments of Heart Failure. Grand Rounds, Department of General Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 1999.
- Congestive Heart Failure: Medical and Surgical Therapies. Heart Failure and Hypertension Rounds. Department of Cardiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 2000.
- Treatment of Heart failure with Acorn Cardiac Support Device. Grand Rounds, Department of General Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, 2000.
- Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure and Surgical Options. Kaiser Permanente Sunset, Los Angeles, California 2002.
- Pump it or Not: Coronary Artery Bypass; Is Off-pump better than On-pump? Wardsworth VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 2004.
- Coronary Artery Bypass; Is Off-pump better than On-pump? Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Grand Rounds Regional Medical Center, Fresno California 2005.
- Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure. Caridology and Cardiac Surgery Sumposium, Visalia, CA. August 9, 2006.
- Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure: When Should the Surgeons be Called? Association of Pakistani Physicians in North America, Winter Meeting, Rawalpindi Medical College, Pawalpindi, Pakistan. December 21-23, 2006.
- Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure and Surgical Options. Post Graduate Institute of Army Medical Education, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. January, 16, 2006.
- “Off Pump” Coronary Bypass Surgery. Heart and Vascular Symposium, State of the Heart 2007, Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, CA. May 12, 2007.
- “Off Pump” Heart Bypass Surgery. Tulare Community Health Clinic, Tulare, CA. May 15, 2007.
Publications
- Hani N. Sabbah, Takayuki Mishima, Brandon J. Biesiadecki, George Suzuki, Pervaiz A. Chaudhry, Omar Nass, Brent Blackburn, Bee-Lian Huang, Willam C. Stanley. Ranolazine Improves Left Ventricular Performance in Dogs with Chronic Heart Failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, (Suppl A); 35(2) 218, 2000.
- Stanley WC, Mishima T, Biesiadeck BJ, Suzuki G, Chaudhry PA, Nass O, Sabbah HN. Ranolazine, a partial fatty acid oxidation (pFox) inhibitor, improves left ventricular performance in dogs with hronic heart failure. European Heart J 2:97, 2000.
- Sabbah HN, Chaudhry PA, Kleber F, Konertz W. Passive mechanical containment of progressive left ventricular dialation: Asurgical approach to the treatment of heart failure. J Heart Failure 6:115, 2000.
- Hani N. Sabbah, Ramesh C. Gupta, Victor G. Sharov, Anastassia Todor, Sudhish Mishra, Pervaiz A. Chaudhry, George Suzuki. Prevention of Progressive Left Ventricular Dilation With the Acorn Cardiac Support Device Downregulates Stretch-Response Proteins and Improves Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Cycling in Dogs With Chronic Heart Failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, (Suppl A); 35(2) 218, 2001.
- Sabbah HN, Sharov VG, Gupta RC, Mishra S, Rastogi S, Undrovinas AI, Chaudhry PA, Todor A, Mishima T, Tanhehco EJ, Suzuki G. Reversal of chronic molecular and cellular abnormalities due to heart failure by passive mechanical ventricular containment. Circ Res. 2003 Nov 28;93(11):1095-101.
- Morita H, Suzuki G, Mishima T, Chaudhry PA, Anagnostopoulos PV, Tanhehco EJ, Sharov VG, Goldstein S, Sabbah HN. Effects of long-term monotherapy with metoprolol CR/XL on the progression of left ventricular dysfunction and remodeling in dogs with chronic heart failure. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2002 Sep;16(5):443-9.
- Suzuki G, Mishima T, Tanhehco E, Sharov V, Todor A, Rostogi S, Gupta R, Chaudhry PA, Anagnostopoulos PV, Nass O, Goldstein S, Sabbah HN. Effects of the AT1-receptor antagonist eprosartan on the progression of left ventricular dysfunction in dogs with heart failure. Br J Pharmacol. 2003 Jan;138(2):301-9.
- Saavedra WF, Tunin RS, Paolocci N, Mishima T, Suzuki G, Emala CW, Chaudhry PA, Anagnostopoulos P, Gupta RC, Sabbah HN, Kass DA. Reverse remodeling and enhanced adrenergic reserve from passive external support in experimental dilated heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002 Jun 19;39(12):2069-76.
- Anagnostopoulos PV, Shepard AD, Pipinos II, Raman SB, Chaudhry PA, Mishima T, Morita H, Suzuki G. Hemostatic alterations associated with supraceliac aortic cross-clamping. J Vasc Surg. 2002 Jan;35(1):100-8.
- Anagnostopoulos PV, Shepard AD, Pipinos II, Raman SKB, Chaudhry PA, Mishima T, Morita H. Analysis of coagulation changes associated with supraceliac aortic crossclamping using thromboelastography. J Surg Res. 2001 Jun 1;98(1):52-8.
- Sabbah HN, Sharov VG, Chaudhry PA, Suzuki G, Todor A, Morita H. Chronic therapy with the acorn cardiac support device in dogs with chronic heart failure: three and six months hemodynamic, histologic and ultrastructural findings. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2001 Feb;20(2):189.