Research & Scholarly Activity - Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship Program

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:

1. Heart Failure
2. Remote Hemodynamic Monitoring
3. Mechanical Circulatory Support 
4. Cardiac Transplant: Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy and post-Transplant surveillance strategies
5. 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