Our ExpertPriya Umapathi, M.D.

Dr. Umapathi was born in Orsett, England and grew up in the United Kingdom, the United States and in India. Dr. Umapathi completed her internal medicine training at Rutgers, served as chief resident in medicine and did research in the laboratory of Dr. Junichi Sadoshima. She completed her cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure training at Johns Hopkins and expanded her research training in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Anderson.  Dr. Umapathi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant/MCS section. She attends on the in-patient heart failure and transplant cardiology services at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and sees clinic patients at the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus. Dr. Umapathi also heads the CardioMetabolic Heart Failure Clinic at Johns Hopkins. 

As a physician scientist she leads a basic and translational research program focused on cardiac metabolism, glycobiology and proteins. Her research hopes to identify novel molecular mechanisms, therapeutic targets for heart failure and to help create a clinical precision medicine proteomic pipeline for heart failure. Her clinical - translational interest is in inherited cardiomyopathies, cardio-metabolic HF, cardiac remodeling/energetics and SGLT2 inhibitors. When not seeing patients, or in the lab, she enjoys surprising her mother with molecular gastronomy-based meals or plotting her next mountain climb.

NewsPriya Umapathi Named Recipient of the 2022 Mirowski Discovery Award

Dr. Priya Umapathi, assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology, was recently named the recipient of the 2022 Mirowski Discovery Award from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This award funds innovative cardiovascular research projects in honor of Dr. Michel Mirowski and his wife Anna.