Erin Goerlich, MD

HS Asst Clinical Professor

Dr. Goerlich is a non-invasive cardiologist who joined the UCSF faculty in the Division of Cardiology in 2024. In addition to general cardiology, her clinical interests include reading and performing transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, the management of structural heart disease, and preventive cardiology.

Dr. Goerlich's research interests include using specialized echocardiographic techniques, such as strain, to better characterize and diagnose cardiac conditions including heart failure, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and effects from COVID-19.

Education
01/2024 - Advanced Imaging Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
06/2023 - General Cardiology Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
06/2019 - Internal Medicine Residency, Johns Hopkins University
MD, 06/2016 - , McGovern Medical School (UT Houston)
Publications

  1. Bermea KC, Lovell JP, Hays AG, Goerlich E, Vungarala S, Jani V, Shah SJ, Sharma K, Adamo L. A Machine Learning-Derived Score to Effectively Identify Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. JACC. Advances 2024. PMID: 39130016


  2. Goerlich E, Chung TH, Hong GH, Metkus TS, Gilotra NA, Post WS, Hays AG. Cardiovascular effects of the post-COVID-19 condition. Nature cardiovascular research 2024. PMID: 39196189


  3. Minhas AS, Leucker TM, Goerlich E, Soleimani-Fard A, Schär M, Ziogos E, Miller E, Gerstenblith G, Hays AG. Effect of Sex on Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction in People Living With HIV. Journal of the American Heart Association 2022. PMID: 36382948


  4. Jani V, Kapoor K, Meyer J, Lu J, Goerlich E, Metkus TS, Madrazo JA, Michos E, Wu K, Bavaro N, Kutty S, Hays AG, Mukherjee M. Unsupervised machine learning demonstrates the prognostic value of TAPSE/PASP ratio among hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2022. PMID: 35907784


  5. Wagle A, Goerlich E, Post WS, Woldu B, Wu KC, Hays AG. HIV and Global Cardiovascular Health. Current cardiology reports 2022. PMID: 35802233


  6. Goerlich E, Schär M, Bagchi S, Soleimani-Fard A, Brown TT, Sarkar S, Bonanno G, Streeb V, Gerstenblith G, Barditch-Crovo P, Weiss RG, Hays AG. Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction in People Living With HIV Is Related to Body Fat Distribution. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2022. PMID: 35131972


  7. Minhas AS, Goerlich E, Corretti MC, Arbab-Zadeh A, Kelle S, Leucker T, Lerman A, Hays AG. Imaging Assessment of Endothelial Function: An Index of Cardiovascular Health. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 2022. PMID: 35498006


  8. Gambahaya ET, Rana R, Bagchi S, Sharma G, Sarkar S, Goerlich E, Cupido B, Mukherjee M, Hays AG. The Role of Multimodality Imaging in HIV-Associated Cardiomyopathy. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 2022. PMID: 35155615


  9. Won T, Wood MK, Hughes DM, Talor MV, Ma Z, Schneider J, Skinner JT, Asady B, Goerlich E, Halushka MK, Hays AG, Kim DH, Parikh CR, Rosenberg AZ, Coppens I, Johns RA, Gilotra NA, Hooper JE, Pekosz A, Ciháková D. Endothelial thrombomodulin downregulation caused by hypoxia contributes to severe infiltration and coagulopathy in COVID-19 patient lungs. EBioMedicine 2022. PMID: 35033854


  10. Minhas AS, Gilotra NA, Goerlich E, Metkus T, Garibaldi BT, Sharma G, Bavaro N, Phillip S, Michos ED, Hays AG. Myocardial Work Efficiency, A Novel Measure of Myocardial Dysfunction, Is Reduced in COVID-19 Patients and Associated With In-Hospital Mortality. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 2021. PMID: 34195234


  11. Goerlich E, Minhas A, Gilotra N, Barth AS, Mukherjee M, Parziale A, Wu KC, Hays AG. Left Atrial Function in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Its Association with Incident Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2021. PMID: 34082022


  12. Goerlich E, Minhas AS, Mukherjee M, Sheikh FH, Gilotra NA, Sharma G, Michos ED, Hays AG. Multimodality Imaging for Cardiac Evaluation in Patients with COVID-19. Current cardiology reports 2021. PMID: 33721125


  13. Goerlich E, Mukherjee M, Schar M, Brown TT, Bonanno G, Weiss RG, Hays AG. Noninvasive detection of impaired pulmonary artery endothelial function in people living with HIV. AIDS (London, England) 2020. PMID: 32826392


  14. Goerlich E, Metkus TS, Gilotra NA, Wu KC, Cingolani OH, Hays AG. Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Echo-Estimated Right and Left Heart Filling Pressures in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019. Critical Care Explorations 2020. PMID: 33063031


  15. Goerlich E, Gilotra NA, Minhas AS, Bavaro N, Hays AG, Cingolani OH. Prominent Longitudinal Strain Reduction of Basal Left Ventricular Segments in Patients With Coronavirus Disease-19. Journal of cardiac failure 2020. PMID: 32991982


  16. Théolade R, Seibert R, Goerlich E, Michel A, Grandjean P, Ruscher H, Weitzenblum E. [Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and cardiovascular diseases]. Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie 1995. PMID: 8745661