Job title: Head of the Heart Transplant and Left Ventricular Device Program
Dr Kevin Damman is Head of the Heart Transplant and Left Ventricular Device Program at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.
His research interests focus on acute and advanced heart failure, including cardiorenal axis. He is also interested in improving the treatment of acute heart failure patients, with early assessment of decongestive therapies, SGLT2 inhibitors in…
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Author(s):
Kiran K Khush,
Sharon A Hunt
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3 years ago
The field of heart transplantation has evolved tremendously since Alexis Carrel first explanted a canine heart and anastomosed it to the carotid artery and jugular vein of a recipient dog in 1905.1 In 1960, Norman Shumway and Richard Lower at Stanford described a technique for orthotopic canine heart transplantation and demonstrated adequate physiologic function of the denervated heart.2 Their…
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Job title: Consultant
Overview
Dr David Sim is a senior consultant in the cardiology department at the National Heart Centre in Singapore.
Academic History
Royal College of Physicians (UK) diploma, 2004
Masters of Medicine (Internal Medicine), National University of Singapore, 2004
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, National University of Singapore, 2004
Career Overview
Dr Sim is the…
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Job title: Director, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Clinics
Dr Shelley Zieroth is Professor at the College of Medicine, Max Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, as well as Director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Clinics at St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. She is also Head of the Medical Heart Failure Program for Cardiac Sciences Manitoba.She is involved in several heart failure clinical trials as a PI, National Lead…
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Dr Birks is a Professor of Medicine and Section Chief of Heart Failure, Heart Transplant, and Mechanical Circulatory Support in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY, US. Dr Birks serves as an A-CURE faculty member.
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Job title: MD University Heart and Vascular Center, Hamburg, Germany
Dr Bernhardt is a cardiac surgeon and surgical director of the heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support programme at the University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany. His research interests include the pathophysiology of heart failure, ventricular unloading, mechanical circulatory support and the management of heart transplant recipients.
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