Nitasha Sarswat, MD

Nitasha Sarswat is a board-certified cardiologist who specializes in advanced heart failure and heart transplantation. She has particular expertise in cardiac amyloidosis, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac resynchronization therapy. Along with her clinical pursuits, she also researches a variety of cardiology topics, investigating ways to improve the treatment and management of heart failure.

Dr. Nitasha Sarswat serves as an Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States. She holds an MD from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her residency in internal medicine at New York University Langone Health. Subsequently she was a heart failure and transplantation research fellow at Montefiore Health System. She also completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Most recently, she was affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, first as an advanced heart failure and transplantation fellow, and then as an attending physician.

Dr. Sarswat's areas of interest are heart failure, cardiac amyloidosis, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac resynchronization therapy, heart transplantation, cardiac sarcoidosis, mechanical circulatory support and cardiac critical care.