Research/Scholarly Activities
Clinical Research
The fellow may participate in any of the ongoing research projects but will be encouraged to design and implement a project that could be conducted over the course of his/her fellowship. This should be of the nature to yield at least two publications in peer reviewed journals.The current ongoing projects fall under one of the following areas:
- Heart Failure
- Remote Hemodynamic Monitoring
- Mechanical Circulatory Support
- Cardiac Transplant: Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy and post-Transplant surveillance strategies
- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Clinical Trials
The following is a list of some of the current ongoing trials in which the fellow may participate;
- Hemodynamic-GUIDEd Management of Heart Failure (GUIDE-HF)
- Care Through Patient and Hospital Engagement Clinical Trial for Heart Failure (CONNECT-HF)
- Reduce LAP Heart Failure Trial II
- Outcomes AlloMap Registry (OAR) Study
- Utility of Donor-Derived Cell-free DNA in Association with Gene-Expression Profiling (AlloMap) in Heart Transplant Recipients (D-OAR)
- Clinical Management and Outcomes of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: MCS Registry
- Surveillance HeartCare® Outcomes Registry
- Transthyretin Amyloidosis Outcomes Survey (THAOS): A Global, Multi-Center, Longitudinal, Observational Survey of Patients With Documented Transthyretin (TTR) Gene Mutations or Wild-Type ATTR Amyloidosis
- Proactive-HF IDE Trial Heart Failure NYHA class III (Proative-HF)
- TRANSFORM-HF: ToRsemide compArisoN With furoSemide FOR Management of Heart Failure