Daniel B. Sims, MD

Daniel Sims, MD, serves as the Program Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program and is the Medical Director of the Moses Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU). Dr. Sims is an Associate Professor of Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA), and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). Originally from Bellmore, NY, Dr. Sims graduated from Yale University with a BA in history in 1999. He attended medical school at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, graduating in 2003. He stayed at Emory for his 3-year internal medicine internship and residency training, finishing in 2006. He was selected to stay an additional one year to serve as the chief resident at the Emory University Hospital. Dr. Sims did his 3-year cardiology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center and served as chief cardiology fellow during his final year, finishing in 2010. He completed an additional one-year advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship at Columbia in 2011. Dr. Sims returned to Emory to serve on the cardiology faculty and as a member of the Center for Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation.

After 2 years, Dr. Sims was recruited to Montefiore in 2013 to be the Medical Director for the Moses CICU and a member of the cardiac transplant and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) team. His clinical focus has been the treatment of patients with acute and chronic heart failure due to multiple kinds of cardiomyopathy such as dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive, among others. Dr. Sims also cares for patients with myocarditis, left ventricular assist devices, and cardiac transplants.

Dr. Sims has been active in clinical research involving heart failure, cardiogenic shock, temporary mechanical circulatory support devices, cardiac critical care, cardiac transplantation, and LVADs. He has mentored numerous residents and fellows on research projects and his work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. Dr. Sims served 2 2-year terms as a member of the AHA’s Acute Cardiac Care Committee and has been a member of the AHA writing groups for scientific statements on neuroprognostication after cardiac arrest, management of fulminant myocarditis, the prevention of complications in the CICU, and escalating and de-escalating temporary mechanical circulatory support devices. Dr. Sims is a two-time winner of the Department of Medicine’s Sharon R. Silbiger Faculty Teaching Award as the subspecialist of the year. Prior to becoming Program Director, Dr. Sims was a two-time winner of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program “Program Director’s Training Award.” Dr. Sims is a member of the AHA, the ACC, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Additionally, he is board certified in Cardiology as well as Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.