Heart Failure

Research Focus:
Overlap and intersection of heart failure and diabetes.

Center Director:
G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA

Training Director:
Joseph Rogers, MD

Principal Investigators

• Svati Shah, MD, MHS, FAHA
  Branched Chain Amino Acid and other Metabolic Pathways in Diabetic Heart Failure


• G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA
  A randomized trial of a mobile health behavioral intervention in patients with heart failure and diabetes mellitus


• Adam DeVore MD, MHS
  Improving Population Health for Patients with Diabetes and Heart Failure (IMPAcT-HF)

 

Research Focus:
Identify specific factors circulating in the blood that will help us identify patients with different risks of HF.

Center Director:
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD, FAHA

Training Director:
Christopher Newton-Cheh, MD

Principal Investigators

• Anthony Rosenzweig, MD, FAHA
  Functional roles of circulating ncRNAs in pathological hypertrophy and heart failure


• Saumya Das, MD, PhD, MSc
  Extracellular RNAs as Mediators of Cardiac Remodeling in Human Heart Failure


• Jane Freedman, MD, FAHA
  Extracellular RNA, Adverse Left Ventricular Remodeling, and Heart Failure Progression

 

Research Focus:
Develop personalized, affordable medications that will benefit a large group of patients.

Center Director:
Peter Buttrick, MD, FAHA

Training Director:
Peter Buttrick, MD, FAHA

Principal Investigators

• Timothy McKinsey, PhD, FAHA
  Epigenetic Readers as Downstream Effectors of Beta1-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling in HFrEF


• Michael Bristow, MD, PhD, FAHA
  Therapeutic Molecular and Structural Phenotypic Changes of Heart Rate Reduction in HFrEF


• Larry Allen, MD, MHSc, FAHA
  Electronic health record-leveraged, Patient-centered, Intensification of Chronic care for Heart Failure (EPIC-HF)

 

Research Focus:
Better understanding why a patient or a heart gets better with an intervention.

Center Director:
Craig Selzman, MD, FAHA

Training Director:
James Fang, MD, FACC, FAHA

Principal Investigators

• E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD
  Coupling glucose uptake and pyruvate utilization to increase myocardial recovery in heart failure


• Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, FAHA
  Predictors of myocardial recovery in chronic heart failure


• Josef Stehlik, MD, MPH, FAHA
  Patient-reported outcomes as an indicator of disease transitions in heart failure