Alexios Dimas CARDIOLOGIST CLINICAL Director, 4th Cardiology Department

• American College of Cardiology (Fellow)
• Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (Fellow)

Medical Director- Investigator

• Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization
• Investigation (BARI)
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Cleveland, Ohio
• July 1988- December 31, 1991

Interventional Cardiology Staff

• Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Cleveland, Ohio
• January 1, 1991-December 31, 1991

• Interventional Cardiology
• Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Antithrombotic Medications
• Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease

• BARI: (page 1)
• SYMPHONY: National Coordinator-Steering Committee Member.
• SYMPHONY 2: National Coordinator-Steering Committee Member.
• PARAGON B: National Coordinator-Steering Committee Member.
• HERO-2: National Coordinator-Steering Committee Member.
• CHARISMA: National Coordinator.
• CRESCENDO: National Coordinator.

Congress of American College of Cardiology

• Faculty: 2007, 2008, 2012
• Abstract Grader: 2008-2012

• Cardiovascular Thrombosis: Thrombocardiology and Thromboneurology  M. Verstraete, V. Fuster, E. J. Topol (Editors) LWW, 2nd edition 1998  Mechanical Thrombectomy Approaches: Alexios P. Dimas and Patrick L. Whitlow.

• Long-term function of the morphologic right ventricle in adult patients with corrected transposition of the great arteries. Dimas AP, Moodie DS, Sterba R, Gill CC. Am Heart J. 1989 Sep;118(3):526-30. PMID:2773773
• Coronary artery bypass surgery vs coronary angioplasty: from antithesis to synthesis. Dimas AP, Healy B.
• Eur Heart J. 1989 Dec;10 Suppl H:85-91. PMID: 2697567
• Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty involving internal mammary artery grafts. Dimas AP, Arora RR, Whitlow PL, Hollman JL, Franco I, Raymond RE, Dorosti K, Simpfendorfer CC. Am Heart J. 1991 Aug;122(2):423-9. PMID: 1858621
• Angioplasty of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery: initial success and long-term follow-up. Frierson JH, Dimas AP, Whitlow PL, Hollman JL, Marsalese DL, Simpfendorfer CC, Dorosti K, Franco I. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1992 Mar 15;19(4):745-51. PMID: 1545068 
• Repeat coronary angioplasty as treatment for restenosis. Dimas AP, Grigera F, Arora RR, Simpfendorfer CC, Hollman JL, Frierson JH, Franco I, Whitlow PL. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1992 May;19(6):1310-4. PMID: 1564232 
• Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of one major coronary artery when the contralateral vessel is occluded. Lafont A, Dimas AP, Grigera F, Pearce G, Webb M, Whitlow PL. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1993 Nov 1;22(5):1298-303. PMID: 8227783 
• Influence of pre-PTCA strategy and initial PTCA result in patients with multivessel disease: the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). Kip KE, Bourassa MG, Jacobs AK, Schwartz L, Feit F, Alderman EL, Weiner BH, Weiss MB, Kellett MA Jr, Sharaf BL, Dimas AP, Jones RH, Sopko G, Detre KM. Circulation. 1999 Aug 31;100(9):910-7. PMID: 10468520 
• Relationship of extent of revascularization with angina at one year in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). Whitlow PL, Dimas AP, Bashore TM, Califf RM, Bourassa MG, Chaitman BR, Rosen AD, Kip KE, Stadius ML, Alderman EL. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1999 Nov 15;34(6):1750-9. PMID: 10577566 
• Early statin initiation and outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes. Newby LK, Kristinsson A, Bhapkar MV, Aylward PE, Dimas AP, Klein WW, McGuire DK, Moliterno DJ, Verheugt FW, Weaver WD, Califf RM; SYMPHONY and 2nd SYMPHONY Investigators. Sibrafiban vs Aspirin to Yield Maximun Protection From Ischemic Heart Events Post-acute Coronary Syndromes. JAMA. 2002 Jun 19;287(23):3087-95. PMID: 12069671
• Clinical outcomes of patients with diabetic nephropathy randomized to clopidogrel plus aspirin versus aspirin alone (a ost hoc analysis of the clopidogrel for high atherothrombotic risk and ischemic stabilization, management, and avoidance [CHARISMA] trial). Dasgupta A, Steinhubl SR, Bhatt DL, Berger PB, Shao M, Mak KH, Fox KA, Montalescot G, Weber MA, Haffner SM, Dimas AP, Steg PG, Topol EJ; CHARISMA Investigators. Am J Cardiol. 2009 May  5;103(10):1359-63. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.01.342. Epub 2009 Apr 1. PMID: 19427428