Heart Failure Beat

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 access to care for our most vulnerable patients.  Live Discussion originally broadcasted on the HFSA Twitter and YouTube on May 27, 2022.

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 Career Paths.

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 interactions, adherence, and outcomes after heart transplantation. 

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.

Evolving strategies for the management of heart failure in the context of COVID-19 are discussed with the lead authors of three papers published in the July issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure.

Virtual Visits for the care of patients with heart failure in the era of COVID-19 and beyond -- best practices, policy changes, reimbursement, and more.