Suma Konety, MD

Suma H. Konety, MD, MS is an associate professor of medicine who specializes in cardio-oncology, cardiac imaging, and women’s heart health. Dr. Konety directs the cardio-oncology clinic at the University campus, where patient-centered cardiovascular care is provided to patients with active cancer and to cancer survivors.

Dr. Konety’s research interests include prevention and early diagnosis of cardiac toxicity caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As a cardiac epidemiologist, Dr. Konety serves as a co-investigator for several NIH-funded population studies including MESA and ARIC studies.

With a master's degree in epidemiology, Dr. Konety studies data relating to cardiac outcomes in the general population and to women.

• Blaes A, Prizment A, Koene RJ, Konety S. Cardio-oncology Related to Heart Failure: Common Risk Factors Between Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease. Heart Fail Clin. 2017 Apr;13(2):367-380
• Bello NA, Hyacinth HI, Roetker NS, Seals SR, Naik RP, Derebail VK, Kshirsagar AV, Key NS, Wilson JG, Correa A, Adams RJ, Egede LD, Longstreth WT Jr, Choudhary G, Gee BE, Hughes AL, Shah AM, Manson JE, Allison M, Burke GL, Folsom AR, Carty CL, Reiner AP, Solomon SD, Konety SH. Sickle cell trait is not associated with an increased risk of heart failure or abnormalities of cardiac structure and function. Blood. 2017 Feb 9;129(6):799-801.
• Heart Failure Stages Among Older Adults in the Community: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Shah AM, Claggett B, Loehr LR, Chang PP, Matsushita K, Kitzman D, Konety S, Kucharska-Newton A, Sueta CA, Mosley TH, Wright JD, Coresh J, Heiss G, Folsom AR, Solomon SD. Circulation. 2017 Jan 17;135(3):224-240.
• Konety SH, Koene RJ, Norby FL, Wilsdon T, Alonso A, Siscovick D, Sotoodehnia N, Gottdiener J, Fox ER, Chen LY, Adabag S, Folsom AR. Echocardiographic Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Cardiovascular Health Study. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Aug;9(8)
• Koene RJ, Prizment AE, Blaes A, Konety SH. Shared Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer. Circulation. 2016 Mar 15;133(11):1104-14.
• Blaes A, Konety S, Hurley P. Cardiovascular Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2016 Apr;18(4):25.
• Mitchell A, Misialek JR, Folsom AR, Duprez D, Alonso A, Jerosch-Herold M, Sanchez OA, Watson KE, Sallam T, Konety SH. Usefulness of N-terminal Pro-brain Natriuretic Peptide and Myocardial Perfusion in Asymptomatic Adults (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). Am J Cardiol. 2015 May 15;115(10):1341-5.
• Tamene AM, Masri C, Konety SH. Cardiovascular MR imaging in cardio-oncology. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2015 Feb;23(1):105-16.
• Hurley P, Konety S, Cao Q, Weisdorf D, Blaes A. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with systolic dysfunction: can it be done? Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Feb;21(2):300-4.
• Shah AM, Cheng S, Skali H, Wu J, Mangion JR, Kitzman D, Matsushita K, Konety S, Butler KR, Fox ER, Cook N, Ni H, Coresh J, Mosley TH, Heiss G, Folsom AR, Solomon SD. Rationale and design of a multicenter echocardiographic study to assess the relationship between cardiac structure and function and heart failure risk in a biracial cohort of community-dwelling elderly persons: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Jan;7(1):173-81.