Sanjeet Patel

Sanjeet G. Patel, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and an attending cardiac surgeon at Keck Hospital of USC. His clinical practice covers adult cardiac surgery, with emphasis on mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation, aortic and valve surgery, and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, for which he serves as Surgical Director. He directs the Physician Scientist Training Program at the Keck School of Medicine. His research spans human pluripotent stem cell biology and cardiac cell therapy, machine learning for outcome prediction after cardiac surgery and mechanical circulatory support, and the genetic and metabolic mechanisms of atypical diabetes and aortopathy.

• University of California, Los Angeles: Wilma Miley Morton Award, Outstanding Research, 2017
• University of California, Los Angeles: H & H Lee Travel Grant, 2017
• University of California, Los Angeles: Dissertation of the Year, Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Program, 2014
• University of California, Los Angeles: Outstanding Student Teaching Award, General Surgery, 2011
   – 2016
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine: CIRM Clinical Fellow Training Grant and competitive renewals, 2011
   – 2013

• Baylor College of Medicine, Texas — MD — 06/2008 — Medicine
• UCLA, California — 06/2017 — General Surgery
• UCLA, California — 06/2014 — Molecular Biology
• USC, California — 06/2020 — Cardiothoracic Surgery

• USC Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (USC-StARR) Program
  NIH / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · Mar 1, 2024 – Jul 31, 2030 · Role: Principal Investigator (Multiple PI)
• Embryonic stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles for heart failure
  Children’s Hospital Los Angeles · Jan 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2024 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Health status outcomes after mitral valve surgery (CTSN CAROL ACT supplement)
  NIH / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · Sep 1, 2023 – Feb 28, 2025 · Role: Co-Investigator
• Center for Identification and Study of Individuals with Atypical Diabetes Mellitus (RADIANT)
  NIH / National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · Sep 1, 2018 – Jun 30, 2028 · Role: Site Principal Investigator (USC) and Co-Investigator
• USC-Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network Linked Clinical Research Center
  NIH / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · Jul 15, 2013 – Feb 28, 2027 · Role: Co-Investigator
• Epigenetic instability of the X chromosome in human pluripotent stem cells
  California Institute for Regenerative Medicine · Jul 1, 2010 – Jun 30, 2013 · Role: CIRM Clinical Fellow (predoctoral trainee)
• Viral mechanisms of adipocyte dysfunction: role of Vpr
  NIH / National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · May 1, 2009 – Mar 31, 2013 · Role: Collaborator
• Pathogenesis of ketosis-prone diabetes
  NIH / National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · Apr 1, 2009 – Mar 31, 2011 · Role: Collaborator

• Cardiac surgery
• Mechanical circulatory support
• Heart transplantation
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
• Ventricular assist devices
• Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
• Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection
• Mitral valve surgery
• Induced pluripotent stem cells
• Cardiac regeneration and cell therapy
• Cardiomyocyte differentiation
• Germ layer specification
• X chromosome inactivation
• Extracellular vesicles and exosomes
• Machine learning for clinical outcome prediction
• Atypical diabetes
• Metabolomics

• Peters, Anne
• Kim, Anthony
• Starnes, Vaughn
• Goran, Michael
• Kim, Gene
• Nieva, Jorge