Monica Aggarwal

Monica Aggarwal, MD, FACC

Clinical Associate Professor

Department: MD-CARDIOLOGY
Business Phone: (352) 273-9065

About Monica Aggarwal

Dr. Aggarwal is an associate professor of medicine in the University of Florida’s Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. She received her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and subsequently went on to complete  residency in internal medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center. She then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Maryland and later continued her training at the University of Arizona, completing an integrative medicine fellowship.

Accomplishments

Fellow
2017 · American College of Cardiology
Invited reviewer
2005 · ACCSAP 6
Collaborative Scholarship Award
1995-1996 · Bravewell
Resident
1995-1996 · Thomas Jefferson’s Exclusive Academic Village Lawn

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2020
PAS5010 Intro to Medicine 1
2018
MDT7200 Elect Top/Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Cardiovascular Medicine
    American Board of Internal Medicine

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Cardiology
Areas of Interest
  • Caffeine in the diet
  • Calcium in diet
  • Carbohydrates
  • Echocardiogram
  • Fiber
  • Food additives
  • Food labeling
  • Foods – fresh vs. frozen or canned
  • Heart disease
  • Heart disease and diet
  • Magnesium in diet
  • Nutrition and athletic performance
  • Pesticides on fruits and vegetables
  • Potassium in diet
  • Preventive health care
  • Protein in diet
  • Salads and nutrients
  • Sodium in diet
  • Sweeteners – sugar substitutes
  • Sweeteners – sugars
  • Thiamin
  • Tryptophan
  • Vegetarian diet
  • Vitamin B12
  • Vitamin B6
  • Vitamin C
  • Vitamin D
  • Vitamin E
  • Vitamin K
  • Vitamins
  • Water in diet
  • Wine and heart health

Publications

2023
Corrigendum to ‘Integrating Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden and Progression with Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors to Guide Therapeutic Decision Making’ The American Journal of Medicine 136:03 (2023); 260-269.e7.
The American journal of medicine. 136(7):720-721 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.03.021. [PMID] 37068988.
2023
Dietary Composition, Angiographic Coronary Disease, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in the WISE Study (Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation).
Journal of clinical medicine. 12(24) [DOI] 10.3390/jcm12247762. [PMID] 38137831.
2023
Distinguishing Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency From Familial Hypercholesterolemia.
JACC. Case reports. 24 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.102023. [PMID] 37869222.
2023
Erratum: Global Polarization of Ξ and Ω Hyperons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 162301 (2021)].
Physical review letters. 131(8) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.089901. [PMID] 37683178.
2023
Integrating Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden and Progression with Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors to Guide Therapeutic Decision Making.
The American journal of medicine. 136(3):260-269.e7 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.10.021. [PMID] 36509122.
2022
Controversial Dietary Patterns: A High Yield Primer for Clinicians.
The American journal of medicine. 135(6):680-687 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.01.028. [PMID] 35134371.
2022
Successful Incorporation of a Plant-Based Menu Into a Large Academic Hospital.
American journal of lifestyle medicine. 16(3):311-317 [DOI] 10.1177/15598276211048788. [PMID] 35706598.
2022
Trending Nutrition Controversies #3: Top Controversies in 2021.
The American journal of medicine. 135(2):146-156 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.07.046. [PMID] 34509452.
2021
A Six-Day, Lifestyle-Based Immersion Program Mitigates Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Induces Shifts in Gut Microbiota, Specifically Lachnospiraceae, Ruminococcaceae, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii: A Pilot Study.
Nutrients. 13(10) [DOI] 10.3390/nu13103459. [PMID] 34684459.
2021
Closing Gaps in Lifestyle Adherence for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease.
The American journal of cardiology. 145:1-11 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjcard.2021.01.005. [PMID] 33454343.
2021
Erratum: Azimuthal Anisotropy at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: The First and Fourth Harmonics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 062301 (2004)].
Physical review letters. 127(6) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.069901. [PMID] 34420354.
2021
Global Polarization of Ξ and Ω Hyperons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 126(16) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.162301. [PMID] 33961449.
2021
Impact of a preventive cardiology clinic focusing on lifestyle and nutrition counseling: A pilot analysis.
American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice. 6 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ahjo.2021.100032. [PMID] 38560555.
2021
Measurement of e^{+}e^{-} Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions.
Physical review letters. 127(5) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.052302. [PMID] 34397228.
2021
Measurement of the Sixth-Order Cumulant of Net-Proton Multiplicity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=27, 54.4, and 200 GeV at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 127(26) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.262301. [PMID] 35029466.
2021
Nonmonotonic Energy Dependence of Net-Proton Number Fluctuations.
Physical review letters. 126(9) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.092301. [PMID] 33750161.
2021
Observation of D_{s}^{±}/D^{0} Enhancement in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 127(9) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.092301. [PMID] 34506181.
2021
Prevention and Reversal of Morbidity in Today’s Cardiovascular Patient: Role of Lifestyle Modification and Nutrition in the Current Era.
Current cardiology reports. 23(10) [DOI] 10.1007/s11886-021-01577-1. [PMID] 34410533.
2021
Strategies for Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine in Everyday Hospital Practice.
American journal of lifestyle medicine. 15(5):531-537 [DOI] 10.1177/15598276211006664. [PMID] 34646102.
2021
Vascular dysfunction as a potential culprit of sarcopenia.
Experimental gerontology. 145 [DOI] 10.1016/j.exger.2020.111220. [PMID] 33373710.
2021
Vasculogenic Erectile Dysfunction: The Impact of Diet and Lifestyle.
The American journal of medicine. 134(3):310-316 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.09.033. [PMID] 33227246.
2020
First Measurement of Λ_{c} Baryon Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 124(17) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.172301. [PMID] 32412276.
2020
Malnutrition in the Obese: Commonly Overlooked But With Serious Consequences.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 76(7):841-843 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.06.059. [PMID] 32792082.
2020
Management of Hypothyroidism in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania). 56(5) [DOI] 10.3390/medicina56050214. [PMID] 32353935.
2020
Successful Implementation of Healthful Nutrition Initiatives into Hospitals.
The American journal of medicine. 133(1):19-25 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.08.019. [PMID] 31494109.
2020
The Mismatch of Nutrition and Lifestyle Beliefs and Actions Among Physicians: A Wake-Up Call.
American journal of lifestyle medicine. 14(3):304-315 [DOI] 10.1177/1559827619883603. [PMID] 32477033.
2019
Azimuthal Harmonics in Small and Large Collision Systems at RHIC Top Energies.
Physical review letters. 122(17) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.172301. [PMID] 31107064.
2019
First Observation of the Directed Flow of D^{0} and D^{0}[over ¯] in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 123(16) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.162301. [PMID] 31702332.
2019
My Voice.
JACC. Case reports. 1(1):81-82 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.05.012. [PMID] 34316753.
2019
Observation of Excess J/ψ Yield at Very Low Transverse Momenta in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV and U+U Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=193  GeV.
Physical review letters. 123(13) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.132302. [PMID] 31697545.
2019
Polarization of Λ (Λ[over ¯]) Hyperons along the Beam Direction in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 123(13) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.132301. [PMID] 31697517.
2019
Strategies to Fill the Gaps in Nutrition Education for Health Professionals through Continuing Medical Education.
Current atherosclerosis reports. 21(4) [DOI] 10.1007/s11883-019-0775-9. [PMID] 30820681.
2019
The Reply.
The American journal of medicine. 132(6) [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.01.037. [PMID] 31221369.
2018
A Clinician’s Guide for Trending Cardiovascular Nutrition Controversies: Part II.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 72(5):553-568 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.05.030. [PMID] 30049315.
2018
Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Effects in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV.
Physical review letters. 121(3) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.032301. [PMID] 30085817.
2018
Beam-Energy Dependence of Directed Flow of Λ, Λ[over ¯], K^{±}, K_{s}^{0}, and ϕ in Au+Au Collisions.
Physical review letters. 120(6) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.062301. [PMID] 29481217.
2018
Erratum: Observation of D^{0} Meson Nuclear Modifications in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 142301 (2014)].
Physical review letters. 121(22) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.229901. [PMID] 30547623.
2018
How Pure is PURE? Dietary Lessons Learned and Not Learned From the PURE Trials.
The American journal of medicine. 131(5):457-458 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.11.024. [PMID] 29229470.
2018
Lifestyle Modifications for Preventing and Treating Heart Failure.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 72(19):2391-2405 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.08.2160. [PMID] 30384895.
2018
Low-p_{T} e^{+}e^{-} Pair Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV and U+U Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=193  GeV at STAR.
Physical review letters. 121(13) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.132301. [PMID] 30312102.
2018
The Deficit of Nutrition Education of Physicians.
The American journal of medicine. 131(4):339-345 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.11.036. [PMID] 29269228.
2017
A Deficiency of Nutrition Education and Practice in Cardiology.
The American journal of medicine. 130(11):1298-1305 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.04.043. [PMID] 28551044.
2017
Charge-Dependent Directed Flow in Cu+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 118(1) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.012301. [PMID] 28106415.
2017
Dijet imbalance measurements in Au+Au and pp collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV at STAR.
Physical review letters. 119(6) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.062301. [PMID] 28949601.
2017
Integrative Medicine for Cardiovascular Disease and Prevention.
The Medical clinics of North America. 101(5):895-923 [DOI] 10.1016/j.mcna.2017.04.007. [PMID] 28802470.
2017
Measurement of D^{0} Azimuthal Anisotropy at Midrapidity in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 118(21) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.212301. [PMID] 28598664.
2016
Beam Energy Dependence of the Third Harmonic of Azimuthal Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 116(11) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.112302. [PMID] 27035295.
2016
Centrality and Transverse Momentum Dependence of Elliptic Flow of Multistrange Hadrons and ϕ Meson in Au+Au Collisions at √[sNN]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 116(6) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.062301. [PMID] 26918982.
2016
Measurement of the Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry in p^{↑}+p→W^{±}/Z^{0} at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 116(13) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.132301. [PMID] 27081970.
2015
Azimuthal Anisotropy in U+U and Au+Au Collisions at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 115(22) [PMID] 26650297.
2015
Observation of Charge Asymmetry Dependence of Pion Elliptic Flow and the Possible Chiral Magnetic Wave in Heavy-Ion Collisions.
Physical review letters. 114(25) [PMID] 26197122.
2015
Observation of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations of Charged Pion Pairs in p^{↑}+p at sqrt[s]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 115(24) [DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.242501. [PMID] 26705627.
2015
Precision Measurement of the Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 115(9) [PMID] 26371644.
2015
ΛΛ Correlation function in Au+Au collisions at √[S(NN)]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 114(2) [PMID] 25635541.
2014
Beam energy dependence of moments of the net-charge multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 113(9) [PMID] 25215979.
2014
Beam-energy dependence of charge separation along the magnetic field in Au+Au collisions at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 113(5) [PMID] 25126911.
2014
Beam-energy dependence of the directed flow of protons, antiprotons, and pions in Au+Au collisions.
Physical review letters. 112(16) [PMID] 24815640.
2014
Dielectron mass spectra from Au+Au collisions at √[s(NN)]=200  GeV.
Physical review letters. 113(2) [PMID] 25062167.
2014
Energy dependence of moments of net-proton multiplicity distributions at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 112(3) [PMID] 24484135.
2014
Jet-hadron correlations in √[s(NN)]=200  GeV p+p and central Au+Au collisions.
Physical review letters. 112(12) [PMID] 24724645.
2014
Measurement of longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 113(7) [PMID] 25170701.
2014
Observation of D0 meson nuclear modifications in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)] = 200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 113(14) [PMID] 25325635.
2013
Measurement of J/ψ azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 111(5) [PMID] 23952389.
2013
Observation of an energy-dependent difference in elliptic flow between particles and antiparticles in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Physical review letters. 110(14) [PMID] 25166982.
2012
Directed flow of identified particles in Au+Au collisions at √[SNN]=200  GeV at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 108(20) [PMID] 23003142.
2012
Identified hadron compositions in p+p and Au+Au collisions at high transverse momenta at √S(NN)=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 108(7) [PMID] 22401197.
2012
Strangeness enhancement in Cu-Cu and Au-Au collisions at √S(NN)=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 108(7) [PMID] 22401196.
2009
Indications of conical emission of charged hadrons at the BNL relativistic heavy ion collider.
Physical review letters. 102(5) [PMID] 19257508.
2008
Forward neutral-pion transverse single-spin asymmetries in p + p collisions at sqrt[s] = 200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 101(22) [PMID] 19113478.
2008
Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet production in p[over –>] + p[over –>] collisions at sqrt[s]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 100(23) [PMID] 18643488.
2008
System-size independence of directed flow measured at the BNL relativistic heavy-ion collider.
Physical review letters. 101(25) [PMID] 19113699.
2007
Frequency and cause of cardiac troponin T elevation in chronic hemodialysis patients from study of cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
The American journal of cardiology. 100(5):885-9 [PMID] 17719339.
2007
Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries for Dijet production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 99(14) [PMID] 17930662.
2007
Partonic Flow and phi-Meson production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt radical sNN = 200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 99(11) [PMID] 17930430.
2007
Scaling properties of hyperon production in Au+Au collisions at square root [sNN]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 98(6) [PMID] 17358934.
2007
Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of high-pT nonphotonic electron suppression in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s NN]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 98(19) [PMID] 17677616.
2006
Direct observation of dijets in central Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 97(16) [PMID] 17155388.
2006
Forward neutral pion production in p + p and d + Au collisions at square root sNN=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 97(15) [PMID] 17155322.
2006
Hypertensive Urgency/Emergencies
. 24(1):135-146
2006
Identified baryon and meson distributions at large transverse momenta from Au + Au collisions at square root sNN=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 97(15) [PMID] 17155321.
2006
Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry and cross section for inclusive jet production in polarized proton collisions at square root of s = 200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 97(25) [PMID] 17280342.
2006
Strange baryon resonance production in sqrt s NN=200 GeV p+p and Au+Au collisions.
Physical review letters. 97(13) [PMID] 17026027.
2005
Distributions of charged hadrons associated with high transverse momentum particles in pp and Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 95(15) [PMID] 16241721.
2005
Multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of photons in Au+Au collisions at square root of (S(NN)) = 62.4 GeV.
Physical review letters. 95(6) [PMID] 16090941.
2005
Multistrange Baryon elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at square root of sNN=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 95(12) [PMID] 16197068.
2005
Natriuretic Peptides and Renal Insufficiency: Unraveling the Controversy
. 2(1):1-5
2005
Open charm yields in d+Au collisions at squareroot[sNN]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 94(6) [PMID] 15783724.
2005
Should Greater Emphasis be Placed on Triglycerides in CHD Risk Assessment?
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2005
The APOC3 Promoter Polymorphisms T-455C and C-482T are associated with the Metabolic Syndrome
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
2005
The Efficacy of Real-Time 3-Dimensional Echocardiography for Right Ventricular Biopsy
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 11:1208-1212
2004
Azimuthal anisotropy and correlations at large transverse momenta in p + p and Au + Au collisions at square root sNN=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 93(25) [PMID] 15697893.
2004
Azimuthal anisotropy at the relativistic heavy ion collider: the first and fourth harmonics.
Physical review letters. 92(6) [PMID] 14995231.
2004
Cross sections and transverse single-spin asymmetries in forward neutral-pion production from proton collisions at sqrt[s]=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 92(17) [PMID] 15169138.
2004
Identified particle distributions in pp and Au+Au collisions at square root of (sNN)=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 92(11) [PMID] 15089125.
2004
Multistrange baryon production in Au-Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=130 GeV.
Physical review letters. 92(18) [PMID] 15169485.
2004
Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au+Au collisions at square root of sNN=200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 92(5) [PMID] 14995300.
2004
Rho0 production and possible modification in Au+Au and p+p collisions at square root [sNN] = 200 GeV.
Physical review letters. 92(9) [PMID] 15089460.
2003
Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high-p(T) hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC.
Physical review letters. 91(7) [PMID] 12935009.
2003
Pion-Kaon correlations in central Au+Au collisions at square root [sNN] = 130 GeV.
Physical review letters. 91(26 Pt 1) [PMID] 14754044.
2003
Transverse-momentum and collision-energy dependence of high-pT hadron suppression in Au+Au collisions at ultrarelativistic energies.
Physical review letters. 91(17) [PMID] 14611336.

Grants

Apr 2020 – Jun 2022
FL ACC SEED GRANT
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL CHAPTER AM COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Education

Fellowship – Cardiology
2006 · University of Maryland
Fellowship – Telemedicine, Integrative medicine
2006 · University of Arizona
Internship and Residency – Internal Medicine
2003 · Tufts University Hospital
Medical Degree
2000 · Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Contact Details

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