Sharon Ann Hunt

Sharon Ann Hunt is a cardiologist and a professor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. She has specialized in the medical care of heart transplant patients and is a past president of The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation.

Biography

Hunt received a medical degree in 1972, completed a residency in internal medicine in 1974, and finished a cardiology fellowship in 1977, all at Stanford University. She achieved internal medicine certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1977 and their cardiovascular disease certification in 1979. In 2010 she became board certified in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. Heart transplants are a focus of her practice.^[1]

Hunt is a past president of The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation.^[2] She was the fifth recipient of that organization's Lifetime Achievement Award.^[3] In 2014, the Institute for Scientific Information included Hunt in its ISI Highly Cited database, which lists scientists whose publications have been most often cited by other researchers.^[4] She is a Master of the American College of Cardiology.^[5] She has chaired joint committees of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association which have revised patient care guidelines for heart failure.^[6]

Publications

• Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Therapy Is Associated With a Reduced Incidence of Acute Rejection Episodes or Allograft Vasculopathy in Heart Transplant Recipients TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS Vrtovec, B., Haddad, F., Pham, M., Deuse, T., Fearon, W. F., Schrepfer, S., Leon, S., Vu, T., Valantine, H., Hunt, S. A. 2013; 45 (6): 2406-2409
• ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Following Heart Transplantation as an Unusual Presentation of Coronary Allograft Vasculopathy: A Case Report TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS Peter, S., HULME, O., Deuse, T., Vrtovec, B., Fearon, W. F., Hunt, S., Haddad, F. 2013; 45 (2): 787-791
• Clinical and Functional Correlates of Early Microvascular Dysfunction After Heart Transplantation CIRCULATION-HEART FAILURE Haddad, F., Khazanie, P., Deuse, T., Weisshaar, D., Zhou, J., Nam, C. W., Vu, T. A., Gomari, F. A., Skhiri, M., Simos, A., Schnittger, I., Vrotvec, B., Hunt, S. A., Fearon, W. F. 2012; 5 (6): 759-768
• Heart transplant recipient selection issues: Limited assets, infinite possibilities JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Hunt, S. A. 2012; 31 (7): 675-676
• Comparison of Drug-Eluting Versus Bare Metal Stents in Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY Tremmel, J. A., Ng, M. K., Ikeno, F., Hunt, S. A., Lee, D. P., Yeung, A. C., Fearon, W. F. 2011; 108 (5): 665-668

Conference proceedings

• Infectious complications among 620 consecutive heart transplant patients at Stanford University Medical Center Montoya, J. G., Giraldo, L. F., Efron, B., Stinson, E. B., Gamberg, P., Hung, S., Giannetti, N., Miller, J., Remington, J. S. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. 2001: 629-640
• Severe tricuspid regurgitation after heart transplantation Chan, M. C., Giannetti, N., Kato, T., Kornbluth, M., Oyer, P., Valantine, H. A., Robbins, R. C., Hunt, S. A. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2001: 709-717
• Thirty years of cardiac transplantation at Stanford University Robbins, R. C., Barlow, C. W., Oyer, P. E., Hunt, S. A., Miller, J. L., Reitz, B. A., Stinson, E. B., Shumway, N. E. MOSBY-ELSEVIER. 1999: 939-949
• Long-term results of total lymphoid irradiation in the treatment of cardiac allograft rejection Wolden, S. L., Tate, D. J., Hunt, S. A., Strober, S., Hoppe, R. T. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 1997: 953-960
• Pulmonary hypertension in severe congestive heart failure: How important is it? Hunt, S. A. MOSBY-YEAR BOOK INC. 1997: S13-S15

References

1. "Sharon Hunt, M.D.". Stanford University Medical Center.
2. "ISHLT Past Presidents". The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
3. "Lifetime Achievement Award". The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
4. "Highly Cited Researchers". Institute for Scientific Information. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
5. "2014 Distinguished Awardees". American College of Cardiology. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
6. Hunt SA, Abraham WT, Chin MH, et al. (2005). "ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult". Circulation. 112 (112): e154–e235. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.167586. PMID 16160202. Retrieved April 4, 2015.