Email

enrique.garcia-sayan@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Department of Medicine-Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Addresses

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center/Texas Heart Institute (Hospital)

6720 Bertner Avenue
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 355-1000

Baylor Medicine - McNair Campus (Clinic)

7200 Cambridge Street
Suite 6C
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-2545
Fax: (713) 798-2578
https://www.bcm.edu/healthcare/specialties/cardiovascular-medicine

Education

MD from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

04/2004 - Lima, Peru

Residency at Henry Ford Hospital

06/2009 - Detroit, Michigan United States

Clinical Fellowship at Rush University Medical Center

06/2012 - Chicago, Illinois United States

Certifications

Board Certified - Internal Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine

Board Certified - Cardiovascular Disease

American Board of Internal Medicine

Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography

National Board of Echocardiography

Diplomate

Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology

Diplomate

Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Honors & Awards

Elected as Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (2015)

Elected as Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (2016)

Elected to the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission Echocardiography Board of Directors (2019)

Elected to the Delta Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (2022)

Elected to the American Society of Echocardiography Board of Directors (2023)

07/2023

Professional Interests

• General Cardiology
• Adult Echocardiography
• Structural and Interventional Echocardiography
• Cardiac Computed Tomography

Professional Statement

Dr. Garcia-Sayan is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Associate Medical Director of Non-Invasive Cardiology at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center. He practiced and held faculty appointments at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, Il, and UTHealth McGovern Medical School in Houston, TX, before joining the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in 2023. His expertise and interests include general cardiology, imaging for complex valvular and structural heart disease, interventional echocardiography, and quality echocardiography laboratory operations. He is board-certified in cardiovascular disease and holds a diplomate in adult echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, and cardiovascular computed tomography. Dr. Garcia-Sayan is an active member of various professional societies at both local and national levels. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and has served in several committees, task forces, workgroups, and guideline writing groups. He has served as an ASE representative to the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission Echocardiography Board of Directors since 2020 and was elected to the ASE Board of Directors for the 2023-2025 period. He is also the current President of the Greater Houston Society of Echocardiography and Vascular.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Garcia-Sayan E, Raghunathan D, Li FM, Dhoble A, Sheu RD, Jelacic S, Reisman M, Smalling RW, Mackensen GB. "Initial experience with the fourth generation MitraClip™: Outcomes, procedural aspects, and considerations for device selection.." Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2021 Oct;98(4):E626-E636. Pubmed PMID: 33847434
• Garcia-Sayan E, Chen T, Khalique OK. "Multimodality Cardiac Imaging for Procedural Planning and Guidance of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement and Mitral Paravalvular Leak Closure.." Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021 Feb 22;8 Pubmed PMID: 33693033
• Ghotra AS, Monlezun DJ, Boone D, Jacob R, Poosti K, Loghin C, Garcia-Sayan E, Johnson S, Zhao Y, Balan P, Nguyen TC, Estrera A, Gregoric ID, Loyalka P, Kar B, Smalling RW, Dhoble A. "Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With Incidentally Discovered Masses on Computed Tomography.." Am J Cardiol. 2020 Oct;1(132):114-118. Pubmed PMID: 32798041
• Little SH, Rigolin VH, Garcia-Sayan E, Hahn RT, Hung J, Mackensen GB, Mankad S, Quader N, Saric M. "Recommendations for Special Competency in Echocardiographic Guidance of Structural Heart Disease Interventions: From the American Society of Echocardiography.." J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023 Apr;36(4):350-365. Pubmed PMID: 36841670

Languages

Spanish