Overview
I am an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist, and clinical researcher, here at Duke. My research studies outcomes and interventions in patients with Advanced Heart Failure and with heart transplants. Previously, I completed Internal Medicine Residency, and Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure clinical fellowships here at Duke. I was also an NIH T-32 grant funded Research Fellow at the DCRI. Previously, I completed medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and was a research fellow in the NIH Medical Research Scholar's program, where I spent 1 year at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) performing clinical and translational cardiovascular research.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Medicine
·
2025 - Present
Medicine, Cardiology,
Medicine
Recent Scholarly Works
Prognostic implications of the updated ISHLT definition for severe graft dysfunction: An analysis from the International PGD Consortium and UNOS Databases.
Journal article J Heart Lung Transplant · June 9, 2026 PURPOSE: The proposed 2024 ISHLT consensus definition for severe graft dysfunction after heart transplant (HT) expands the 2014 criteria by including de novo intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) support as diagnostic for severe dysfunction. We evaluated the pr ... Full text Link to item CiteCoronary Evaluation of Donor Hearts in the Donation After Circulatory Death Era.
Journal article JACC Heart Fail · June 1, 2026 Full text Link to item CiteBetween withdrawal and death: Can machine learning improve donation after circulatory death utilization?
Journal article J Heart Lung Transplant · May 1, 2026 Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Phase 2, Multicentre, Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Safety and Efficacy Study of CDR132L on Reverse Cardiac Remodelling in Participants with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by Novo Nordisk, Inc. · 2026 - 2029View All Grants
Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ·
2017
M.D.
Brown University ·
2011
B.A.