Yuichi Shimada MD, MPH

Dr. Yuichi Shimada, MD, MPH, is Research Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is also a Faculty member of the Frontiers in Cardiovascular Discovery Workshop as a part of the Body in Health and Disease Course at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Shimada received an MD degree from The University of Tokyo in 2007. He was selected as one of the 2 exchange medical students who were allowed to experience a three-month sub-internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he decided to pursue his career as a physician-scientist in the United States. After graduation, he served as a house staff member at the University of Tokyo Hospital (2007-2008).

Dr. Shimada completed Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Medical Center (2008-2011) and was selected as Chief Medical Resident (2011-2012). He moved on to a cardiology fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2012-2015). He also honed his clinical research skills at the TIMI Study Group and the Harvard Clinical Research Institute during the fellowship. He spent the last year of his cardiology fellowship as the first “hypertrophic cardiomyopathy fellow” at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2014-2015). Concurrently with his residency and fellowship, he enrolled in the Master of Public Health Program at Johns Hopkins (2011-2014) and was inducted into the Delta Omega Alpha Public Health Honor Society at Hopkins.

After graduating from his fellowship in 2015, Dr. Shimada served as an attending cardiologist of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (2015-2017). He joined the faculty of the Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in 2017.