Susan Graham MD
Susan Graham
MD
Professor
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus
Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease
Professional Summary:
I am a cardiologist with a subspecialty interest in heart failure and general cardiology. I am based at Buffalo General Medical Center (BGMC) and the Gates Vascular Institute (GVI), and I care for inpatients admitted to Cardiology Critical Care, Inpatient Cardiology and Inpatient Consultation.
My research responsibility has included serving as a local principal investigator and supporting investigator in multicenter clinical trials, and our site has contributed to a number of cardiology research programs over the past 30 years.
I am a member of the teaching faculty in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, based at the BGMC training site. In this role, I work with another attending cardiologist to provide oversight and guidance to a team of cardiology fellows, residents and medical students at the BGMC continuity clinic. I am a co-leader of the first year medical student cardiovascular course.
Education and Training:
- Fellowship, Cardiology, Medical College of Virginia (1989)
- Residency, Internal Medicine, VA Medical Center (1986)
- Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota (1985)
- MD, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School (1982)
Employment:
- Clinical Professor, Clinical Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine (Cardiology), University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (2007-present)
- Medical Director, Buffalo General Hospital/Kaleida Health (2007–2018)
- Clinical Professor, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (2012–2015)
- Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (1995–2007)
- Director, Coronary Care Unit, Buffalo General Hospital/Kaleida Health (1989–2006)
- Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (1989–1995)
Awards and Honors:
- Seven H. Noyes Teaching Excellence (2024)
- Robert S. Berkson, MD Memorial Award (2013)
- White Coat Teaching Award, UB Dept. of Medicine (2008)
- Buffalo Spree "100 of WNY‘s Top Docs" (2008)
- UB Family Medicine Specialty Teaching Award (2005)
- Buffalo General Foundation Award (1999)
- CGF Health System Women in Medicine (1998)
Research Expertise:
- Heart failure
- Heart failure
Journal Articles:
- Ahmed, M, Yatsynovich, Y, Ramanan, T, Colern, G, Hansen, R, Cimato TR, Graham S, Page BJ, Iyer VS. (2019) Aortic Paravalvular Leak Repair. J Am Coll Cardiol (Jan), 3: 42-45.
- McCann SE, Marshall JR, Brasure JR, Graham S, Freudenheim JL. (2001) Analysis of patterns of food intake in nutritional epidemiology: food classification in principal components analysis and the subsequent impact on estimates for endometrial cancer. Public Health Nutr (Oct), 4(5): 989-997.
- Susan McCann, Weiner J, Susan Graham, Jo Freudenheim. (2001) Is principal components analysis necessary to characterise dietary behaviour in studies of diet and disease?. Public Health Nutr (Aug), 4(4): 903-908.
- Susan McCann, Jo Freudenheim, Marshall JR, Brasure JR, Swanson MK, Susan Graham. (2000) Diet in the epidemiology of endometrial cancer in western New York (United States). Cancer Causes Control (Dec), 11(10): 965-974.
- VonFricken K, Karamanoukian HL, Ricci M, Graham S, Slate DM, Bergsland J, Salerno TA. (2000) Echocardiographic mass on the mitral valve. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth (Dec), 14(6): 753-754.
- Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Marshall JR, Byers TE, Weiser MM, Phillips JF, Calkins BM, Ogra PL, Graham S. (1991) Relevance of major stress events as an indicator of disease activity prevalence in inflammatory bowel disease. Behav Med (Sep), 17(3): 101-110.
- Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Marshall JR, Weiser MM, Phillips JF, Byers TE, Calkins BM, Graham S, Ogra PL. (1991) Lag time between stress events and risk of recurrent episodes of inflammatory bowel disease. Epidemiology (Mar), 2(2): 141-145.
- Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Marshall JR, Weiser MM, Byers TE, Phillips JF, Ogra PL, Graham S. (1990) Cigarette smoking and risk of clinical relapse in patients with Crohn's disease. Am J Prev Med (May), 6(3): 161-166.
- Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Riepenhoff-Talty M, Byers TE, Marshall J, Weiser MM, Graham S, Ogra PL. (1989) Vasoactive intestinal peptide as a laboratory supplement to clinical activity index in inflammatory bowel disease. Dig Dis Sci (Oct), 34(10): 1528-1535.
- Haughey BP, Graham S, Brasure J, Zielezny M, Sufrin G, Burnett WS. (1989) The epidemiology of testicular cancer in upstate New York. Am J Epidemiol (Jul), 130(1): 25-36.
- Graham S, Dayal H, Rohrer T, Swanson M, Sultz H, Shedd D, Fischman S, Fischman SL. (1977) Dentition, diet, tobacco, and alcohol in the epidemiology of oral cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst (Dec), 59(6): 1611-1618.
Professional Memberships:
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Physicians
- American Heart Association
- Erie County Medical Society, Nominating Committee
- Heart Failure Society of America
- International Society of Heart and Lung Tranplantation
- Professional Steering Committe, Cardiovascular Disease
Service Activities:
- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical sciences; Promotions Committee (2025–present)
- Cardiovascular course - first year medical students; Co-director (2025–present)
- Cardiovascular course - second year medical students; Co-director (2019–2025)