CLINICAL INTERESTS: Dr. Simon is director of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and the Pulmonary Hypertension Comprehensive Care Center. He has expertise as a cardiologist specializing in pulmonary hypertension, advanced heart failure, and heart transplantation.
Dr. Jason W. Smith is a cardiac and transplant surgeon who specializes in heart transplantation and the use of mechanical circulatory support, such as artificial heart pumps and left ventricular assist devices.
Dr. Prasad has multiple clinical research interests. In addition to diagnostic and therapeutic advances in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, she is interested in optimizing outcomes post-transplant. Specifically, she is interested in the non-invasive detection of rejection in dual organ transplant recipients and the non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
I am an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant cardiologist, and the Director of Heart Failure Disease Management at UCSF. I have clinical expertise in evaluating and treating patients across the spectrum of heart failure disease severity, including those who require mechanical circulatory support or heart transplantation. I have a particular interest in developing chronic disease management programs to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life in patients with heart failure.
Tova Fuller, MS, MD, PhD is a transplant psychiatrist working with liver, lung, heart, and kidney recipients as well as living liver and kidney donors. She is also a psychiatric consultant in the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Wellness Program.
Dr. Amy Fiedler is a cardiac surgeon who specializes in caring for patients with heart failure, including those who need heart transplantation. Her focus is on restoring patients' quality of life. Seeking to deliver holistic care, she believes in the powerful connection between mind and body and in the importance of trust and open communication between patient and provider.
Fiedler's research focuses on increasing patient access to heart transplantation by improving current techniques for organ preservation and procurement as well as by developing new ones.
Dr. DesJardin is a cardiologist who specializes in heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation, and pulmonary hypertension. She is clinically skilled in evaluating and treating patients with varying degrees of heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.
As a clinician-researcher, Dr. DesJardin focuses her area of study on pulmonary hypertension and heart failure, with a specific focus on improving diagnosis and treatment of these conditions.
CLINICAL INTERESTS: Advanced heart failure, cardiomyopathies, heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, and pulmonary hypertension
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Translational research in the diagnosis, prognosis, medical and surgical treatment for the above disease states
Dr. Richard Cheng is a cardiologist who specializes in the comprehensive care of patients with heart failure. Having trained in both advanced heart failure and interventional cardiology, his approach combines medical therapy optimization with minimally invasive surgeries and novel devices that can improve heart function.
