Muhamed Saric MD, PhD, FACC, FASE

Dr. Muhamed Saric is the Director of Echocardiography and a Professor of Medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Medicine and his Ph.D. from New York University. He has been in practice for 30 years.

His primary interest is the use of 3D echocardiography in guiding percutaneous repairs of structural heart disease. At NYU he and his colleagues performed the first transeptal transcatheter mitral valve replacement in the world on June 15, 2016, using the Caisson valve system. An article on this achievement can be found here.

Dr. Saric is also the first to describe the tilt-up-then-left or TUPLE maneuver, which improves the diagnosis of atrial septal defects (ASDs), ascertains the important anatomic relationships of ASDs to surrounding structures, and facilitates communication between echocardiographers and interventional cardiologists or cardiac surgeons performing ASD closures. The maneuver also helps guide the transeptal puncture during percutaneous procedures that require access to the left heart.

As a senior member of the cardiology department at NYU, he is a leader in modeling new cross-department collaborative ways of working. These are profiled in this video.

Dr. Saric has published hundreds of widely-cited articles and book chapters in the field of echocardiography. He was the chairman of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) guidelines committee for the use of echocardiography in the evaluation of a cardiac source of embolism, leading to the publication of the first set of guidelines from the ASE specific to this topic. He was a co-chair of the 2022 ASE guidelines on preprocedural TEE imaging for structural heart disease. He is currently the chair of the ASE Council on structural heart disease and the chair of the ASE taskforce on intracardiac echo (ICE). He is frequently invited to give presentations and lectures at medical conferences and institutions throughout the world and is a recipient of multiple teaching awards.