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Joseph Buckley Lerman

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Cardiology
300 W. Morgan Street, Durham, NC 27701

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 Cite
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Education


Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 2017 M.D.
Brown University · 2011 B.A.