Heart Failure Beat

In this month's featured discussion, our co-hosts interview Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD, and Shelley Hall, MD, on the 2018 update to the UNOS allocation system for donor hearts and where the heart transplant community is moving to in the future regarding this issue.

In this month's featured discussion, our co-hosts welcome Yousif Ahmad, BMBS, MRCP, PhD, and review the evidence supporting coronary revascularization in patients with ischemic heart failure.

The program's hosts, Michael Beasley, MD, and Priya Umapathi, MD, interview Clyde Yancy, MS, MSc, as well as Robert Centor, MD, MACP, about best practices and strategies for managing adult heart failure patients in internal medicine practice and beyond.

The conversation around equity in care continues as our co-hosts interview Nasrien Ibrahim, MD, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit The Equity in Heart Transplant Project, Inc. about creative solutions for helping historically excluded and systemically oppressed patients become better candidates for transplant and other advanced heart failure therapies. On From Failure to Function...

Michael Beasley, MD sits down with Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS, one of the co-authors on the recently released  HFSA Expert Consensus Statement on the Medical Management of Patients on Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support , to learn key takeaways from the statement.

Our co-hosts interview Paul Heidenreich, MD, FHFSA a co-author of the  2022 ACC/AHA/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure  about economic considerations in the management of HF. On "From Failure to Function", Priya dives into the late breaking trials from ACC.23 and Michael reviews three papers on HFpEF on HF Rounds.

Attention aspiring Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology faculty, this quick segment is for you! Looking for good advice on succeeding as an early career faculty member? Tune in as Michael Beasley, MD, interviews Preethi Pirlamarla, MD, on her ACC.org publication, Academic Medicine: Demystifying the Appointment Process.

On this quick follow-up to the February episode, Priya Umapthi MD interviews Biykem Bozkurt MD, PhD, FHFSA on CAM - what is it and what are the risks of CAM to GDMT?

Tune into this episode of HF Beat to hear co-hosts Michael Beasley, MD, and Priya Umapathi, MD, discuss complementary and alternative meds in the treatment of HF with guest, Nosheen Reza, MD.

On part two of this episode series, hosts Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umapathi, MD continue their discussion on the top highlights of 2022 with current HFSA president Dr. John Teerlink. The STRONG-HF clinical trial, the future of Omecamtiv Mecarbil and the METEORIC-HF trial are discussed. Priya introduces her new episode segment "From Failure to Function," which summarizes the latest heart failu...

Hosts Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umapathi, MD interview current and immediate past presidents John Teerlink MD, FHFSA, and Mark Drazner MD, MSc, FHFSA on the most significant events that took place in the field of heart failure in 2022 on this two-part series. Part one dives into SGLT2 inhibitors, the rapid uptitration of GDMT, and cardiac xenotransplantation. Michael also delivers HF Rounds, h...

On this episode our host Kevin Shah, MD passes the torch to the new co-hosts of the Heart Failure Beat: Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umpathi, MD. Tune in and get to know what’s coming up on the podcast in the next year.

Podcast host Kevin Shah, MD, engages  Alanna Morris, MD, and Robert Page, PharmD, co-authors of the HFSA Position Paper The Impact of Healthcare Disparities on Patients with Heart Failure on key takeaways and implications. They unpack a recently published HFSA Position Statement on Disparities in and discuss action items that can be made across systems to help reduce disparities as well as improve...

Tune into this episode to hear two leaders elaborate on the complexities that exist between Critical Care Cardiology (CCC) and Advance Heart Failure Transplant and Cardiology (AHFTC) - the two care training pathways in heart failure patient care (Part II of a two-part series).

Tune into this episode to hear four physicians discuss challenges in recruiting trainees to pursue and excel in the field of advanced heart failure. Host Kevin Shah, MD (University of Utah) is joined by Drs. Sarah Chuzi (Northwestern University), Michelle Kittleson (Cedars Sinai Heart Institute) and Hirsch Mehta (Sharp HealthCare) for part one of our two-part series on Heart Failure Training and C...

Hear a discussion on GDMT and the gaps between the evidence and the practicality of implementation. They discuss the gap between trial-proven evidence-based heart failure therapies and implementation of these medications to our most vulnerable patients.

Hear from four leaders (Drs. Sharon Hunt, Mahazarin Ginwalla, Nancy Albert, and Silia DeFilippis) in heart failure/transplant cardiology about both historic and current challenges facing women in the field and how institutions and societies can support and foster cultures of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Host Kevin Shah, MD is joined by guest host Nosheen Reza, MD, to interview the winners of the 2021 HFSA Lifetime Achievement Award -  Inder Anand, MD,  PhD, and Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, FHFSA. The episode was recorded live onsite at the HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting 2021, September 10-13 in Denver, Colorado.

Tune in for a discussion on challenges occurring in the delivery of heart failure care (including access, telehealth, and advanced therapies) in the rural US and an update on the HFSA Heart Failure Research Network. 

Our host Dr. Kevin Shah discusses with three expert clinicians (Dr. Eileen Hsich, Dr. Ersilia DeFilippis, & Dr. Kathleen Faulkenberg) the impact of marijuana use for our patients being considered or who have undergone heart transplantation. The discussants review the evolving literature and changing landscape of recreational as well as medicinal marijuana and the potential impact on drug interacti...

Gain insight into the direction and future of the Journal of Cardiac Failure in this Q&A with senior editors Dr. Rob Mentz and Dr. Anuradha Lala.

We discuss with co-chairs Drs Biykem Bozkurt and Andrew Coats the background, updates, and major changes in the recently published Consensus Statement on Heart Failure. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.01.022 

A look at how heart failure care providers are faring one year in to the COVID-19 pandemic and how treatment has changed as a result.

In this edition of the Heart Failure Beat, Drs. Mary Norine Walsh and Kathryn Lindley discuss recent advances in the diagnosis and management of pregnancy-associated heart failure and pregnancy following heart transplantation or durable mechanical circulatory support.

A music intervention from Italy involving daily listening of classical music selections was shown to improve quality of life and other outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure.