Omar Saeed, MD

Omar Saeed, MD, is an Attending Cardiologist at Montefiore and Assistant Professor of Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His clinical focus is on heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.

After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in molecular and cellular biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, Dr. Saeed attended New York Medical College, earning his Doctor of Medicine in 2007. He began his postdoctoral training at Emory University Hospital, completing a residency in internal medicine in 2010 and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease in 2011. He then transferred to Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Here he completed a research fellowship in heart failure, transplant and mechanical circulatory support in 2012, a cardiovascular disease fellowship in 2014 and a fourth-year clinical fellowship in advanced heart failure and transplant in 2015.

Dr. Saeed’s research focuses on the mechanisms of hematological and neurological adverse events during mechanical circulatory support. He has published as primary author or as co-author over 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and he has presented regionally, nationally and internationally. He also has been an invited manuscript reviewer for many journals, including Haemostasis and Thrombosis, the Journal of Lung and Heart Transplantation and the Journal of Human Immunology.

Dr. Saeed has received the Martin Cohen award for excellence in cardiovascular fellowship training, the Edmund Sonnenblick award for excellence in heart failure research and the NIH K23 career development award supporting his commitment to patient-oriented research. He is board certified and is a member of several professional organizations, including the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant.