About me
Farooq H. Sheikh, MD, specializes in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation. Dr. Sheikh is the System Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program at the MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute.
Dr. Sheikh publishes extensively in his field and has authored or co-authored numerous articles related to cardiovascular medicine and heart failure.
Dr. Sheikh is a recipient of numerous awards, including: Professionalism Award, Department of Medicine, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and Frank L. Pollack, MD, Research Award, New York Medical College.
Dr. Sheikh was a post-doctoral research fellow at The McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Division of Cardiology, at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was also a research assistant at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at New York Medical College.
Dr. Sheikh served as an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Clinical areas of focus
- Advanced Heart Failure
- Cardiac Amyloidosis
- Cardiac Sarcoidosis
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiomyopathy And Genetic Heart Disease
- Clinical Trials And Novel Heart Failure Therapies
- Heart Transplant Evaluation And Management
- Infiltrative And Restrictive Cardiomyopathies
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Therapy
- Multidisciplinary Team Care
- Pulmonary Hypertension
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Advanced Heart Failure
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiac Amyloidosis
- Cardiac Sarcoidosis
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiomyopathy And Genetic Heart Disease
- Complications Of Cardiac And Vascular Prosthetic Devices
- Complications Of Heart Transplant
- Complications Of Transplanted Organs And Tissue
- Complications Of Vad
- Complications Of Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
- Heart Failure
- Heart Transplant Failure
- Heart Transplant Rejection
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Implantable Cardioverter
- Infiltrative And Restrictive Cardiomyopathies
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Therapy
- Multiple Myeloma With Amyloidosis
- Myocarditis
- Presence Of Cardiac And Vascular Implants
- Presence Of Cardiac Pacemaker
- Presence Of Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Rejection Of Transplanted Heart
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
Procedures I perform
- Clinical Trials And Novel Heart Failure Therapies
- Heart Transplant Evaluation And Management
- Multidisciplinary Team Care
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Rd NW
PHC Bldg 5th Fl
Washington, DC, 20007
110 Irving St NW
MHVI-1st Floor North Addition
Washington, DC, 20010
Insurance
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield of Maryland
- Cigna Health Care
- Kaiser Permanente*
- MedStar Select (Administered by CareFirst)
- United HealthCare
- Aetna
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield of Maryland
- Healthspring
- Humana
- Medicare & Railroad Medicare
- United HealthCare
- Aetna Better Health of Maryland *
- Medical Assistance/Medicaid
- MedStar Family Choice MD
- Priority Partners *
- United HealthCare Community Health Plan MD
- Wellpoint MD
- AmeriHealth Caritas
- Health Services For Children With Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Medical Assistance/Medicaid
- MedStar Family Choice DC
- Johns Hopkins Employer Health Programs *
- Johns Hopkins US Family Health Plan *
- MultiPlan
- Private Healthcare Systems
- Tricare/Humana Military
- VA Community Care Network (VACCN)
Videos
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2010)
Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital (2006)
Medical School: New York Medical College (2003)
Awards
- Washingtonian Top Doc 2025