Heart Failure Training

Overview of our training program:

• Only hospital in Detroit metropolitan area performing heart transplantation or left ventricular assist devices, and only 1 of 3 in the state of Michigan
• Busy advanced heart failure services
  • 25-30 heart transplants and 50 LVADs performed yearly
  • One of the highest volume centers in Michigan
  • Chronically following over 200 heart transplant patients and over 150 LVAD patients
• Active research program including clinical trials, genomics and precision medicine, mechanical circulatory support, exercise physiology and pre-clinical/ basic laboratory studies.
• Mentors are active in heart failure and transplant societies and national registries. Heart Failure program generates about 50 publications per year.
• Extensive experience in intensive care including invasive hemodynamic monitoring and temporary mechanical circulatory support
• Pre-transplant evaluation including heart failure risk stratification, optimization, ambulatory invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and cardiopulmonary stress testing
• Post-transplant management including immunosuppression, and myocardial biopsy performance and interpretation
• Management of all forms of implanted ventricular assist devices (including temporary support) and artificial hearts
• Training in pulmonary hypertension management and participation in catheterization studies unique to patients with PH and RV failure
• Our team performs multiorgan transplants (e.g. heart lung, heart kidney)
• Multidisciplinary amyloid, sarcoid, hypertrophic and genetic cardiomyopathy program