Academic & Administrative Activities
Chief, Heart Failure Section - Duke University Medical Center
Associate Program Director - Duke Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Clinical Activities
On an annual basis, I typically round approximately 12 weeks on the Duke Hospital inpatient heart failure services (4 weeks on the heart transplant service, 4 weeks on the LVAD service and 4 weeks on the general heart failure service).
Additionally, I see advanced heart failure outpatients one afternoon every week in the Duke South Clinic. I also see heart transplant patients and left ventricular assist device (LVAD or mechanical heart) patients one afternoon every other week.
My principal teaching duty is for the 3 advanced heart failure fellows, including supervising procedures, clinic preceptorship, and didactic lectures. I also have teaching responsibilities to the medicine housestaff, advanced practice providers (APPs) and cardiology fellows rounding on the inpatient services (average of more than 20 per year). Teaching activities include the review of heart failure cases and consultations, including review of heart failure testing and procedures such as cardiopulmonary exercise testing, right heart catheterization and endomyocardial biopsy pathology. I emphasize the need for an evidenced-based approach to heart failure management with a focus on clinical trial evidence.