James M. Tauras, MD

Jim Tauras, MD, FACC, is a cardiologist, Assistant Professor, Medicine and

Course Director,Cardiovascular Diseases Physiology and Pathophysiology at

Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Tauras’ major clinical interests include critical

care cardiology, congestive heart failure and cardiac amyloidosis.

After obtaining his Bachelor of Science in biological engineering from Cornell

University in 1995, Dr. Tauras earned his Doctor of Medicine at Weill Cornell

Medical College in 2003. He then came to Montefiore Einstein to complete an

internal medicine internship in 2004, an internal medicine residency in 2006

and a cardiology fellowship in 2009.

Dr. Tauras has been site principal investigator for multiple national and

international clinical trials regarding novel therapeutics for acute heart

failure and cardiac amyloidosis. His work has been published in numerous

peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts, and he

has given several invited presentations.

Dr. Tauras is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in

Cardiovascular Diseases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.