Advanced Heart Failure Faculty
The multidisciplinary team of experts works closely with the referring physicians to provide the patients with treatments that relieve symptoms, slow disease progression, prolong survival and improve their quality of life.
The team includes cardiologists:
- Mandar Aras, MD, PhD
Co-director, Comprehensive Amyloidosis Program Director, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing - Richard Cheng, MD
Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist - Teresa De Marco, MD
Chief, Advanced Heart Failure Therapies and Pulmonary Hypertension program; Medical Director, Heart Transplantation - Liviu Klein, MD, MS
Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center, Director Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Failure Device Program - Marc Simon, MD
Director of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and the Pulmonary Hypertension Comprehensive Care Center
as well as cardiothoracic surgeons:
- Ramin Beygui, MD
Cardiovascular Surgery and Heart Transplantation - Tobias Deuse, MD, PhD
Surgical Director, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery - Jasleen Kukreja, MD, MPH
Interim Chief, Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery Director, Lung Transplantation, Adult Respiratory ECMO, and Ex-vivo Lung Perfusion - Jason Smith, MD
Surgical Director and Chief, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program - Amy Fiedler, MD
Cardiovascular Surgery and Heart Transplantation
Their experience spans the breadth and depth of heart failure care.
The team also includes heart failure nurses and nurse practitioners, transplant coordinators and nurses, ventricular assist device coordinators, social workers, dietitians, transplant pharmacists, physical therapists, psychiatrists, and the palliative care team.