N.J.D. Suthahar
Research interests
Dr. Navin Suthahar (MD, MSc, PhD)
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiology at
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and its Heart Failure
Association (HFA). He serves as an Editorial Consultant for the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) and as Editor
for BMC Medicine.
He obtained his MD in 2008, followed by PG diplomas in Respiratory
Medicine and Cardiology, an MSc in Preventative Cardiology, and a
PhD in Cardiology. During his doctoral training, he uncovered
overlapping effects of obesity and sex on HF biomarker profiles.
Specifically, he demonstrated that for NT-proBNP, male sex (not
obesity) was strongly associated with lower levels in the general
population, whereas obesity (not male sex) was strongly associated
with lower levels in HF patients. He subsequently conducted a
multicenter observational biomarker study at Massachusetts General
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA.
With a full-time research focus, Dr. Suthahar now conducts studies
on obesity-related HF, novel obesity / HFpEF biotargets, and
sex-specific aspects of cardiometabolic disease using a
multidisciplinary approach. He has published around 100 research
items and holds a patent on circulating BMP10 for assessing
congestion and pulmonary hypertension. He actively contributes to
the cardiovascular community through the Netherlands Heart
Institute (NLHI) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC),
helping shape national, European, and global research agendas for
heart disease.
