🚨Out now: Part 2 of the 3-part series detailing a patient’s heart transplant journey.

- How to introduce🫀transplantation?
- To mask or not to mask? 😷
- How to communicate complications?

Read more from this patient's take -

🔗 bit.ly/3wkRUet

Do you remember this 🥹 HFSA Cleveland?
A moving Journal of Cardiac Failure reception by Vanessa Blumer, MD, FACC &🫀transplant patient cared for by Andrew Higgins & Cleveland Clinic MD team.

The power of 🎶, sharing, healing…
Read on as he shares his poignant thoughts on what we should know as clinicians 🙏🏽💜

This month, #JCF is sharing the story of a patient’s journey to 🫀 transplantation – written from the patient's perspective!

A husband, a new father, a professional athlete ... & now a patient. Read part 1 of this powerful 3-part series, out now ⬇️

🔗bit.ly/3WbZ7YP

To compress or not to compress, VAD is the question 😉 Read our findings 👇 and stay tuned for our multi-center analysis!

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Jason N. Katz Mark Kittipibul MD Stephanie Barnes Jacob Niall Schroder Jennifer Cowger Adam DeVore, MD, MHS Shashank Sinha, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA JACC Journals

Among patients with STEMI-associated cardiogenic shock, mortality was lower with the use of a microaxial flow pump in addition to standard care than with standard care alone. Read the full DanGer Shock Research Summary: nej.md/3xyXU3t

Thanks Nature Medicine for the invitation to discuss equity in clinical trials.

nature.com/articles/s4159…
⚫️ acknowledge our past
⚫️ strategize for the future: representation according to disease prevalence/severity, negotiation, scholarship, funding, community partnership

As part of the AHA Science Centennial Collection, Karen Joynt Maddox and I examine how major policy reforms in the US have impacted cardiovascular health

We also discuss opportunities to advance CV health & equity through policy, as well as emerging threats
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Still time to Register to attend the April 27 2024 Inova Advanced Heart Failure and Shock Symposium virtually. Deadline April 25.
Hear updates on the latest research and best practices from our guest faculty and our outstanding Inova experts
advancedhfsymposium.com

.JACC Journals reference pocket cards for contemporary global guideline recommendations for drugs & devices in HF across the LVEF spectrum.🗒️

jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

The Japanese secret to a long, happy and meaningful life: Ikigai

Ikigai: passion | mission | vocation | profession

• What you love
• What you are good at
• What the world needs
• What you can get paid for

Palak Shah, M.D. + Inova Schar Heart and Vascular will receive a $1.4M grant to develop a blood test to optimize care for pediatric heart transplant patients. This research could help kids w/ new hearts live longer lives.

👏 Inova, Christopher O'Connor, Palak Shah #BoldHearts spr.ly/6018b5Ebj

Excited that Palak Shah, Jason F. Goldberg MD MS were awarded nearly $1.4 million American Heart Association/Enduring Hearts grant to develop test to optimize immunosuppression meds -- improve outcomes in pediatric heart transplant. Inova Schar Heart and Vascular leads multicenter consortium
bit.ly/3JtR2as

Congratulations to Palak Shah @JasonGoldenbergMD for this amazing AHA Science translational grant to optimize outcomes in pediatric transplantation. @ISHV leads the multisite consortium. AHA Greater Wash Mitchell Psotka Shashank Sinha, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA Ana Barac, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA

Review summarizes current evidence regarding the diagnosis and treatment of interstitial lung disease. ja.ma/3QgoXay

THIS.

To growth & freedom-
In responding >> reacting

Happy Monday. 🙏🏽❤️
#selfawareness #MondayMorning

Parallax Ep 111 with the erudite Dr. Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD MSc at Brown University, discussing 5 interventional/critical care cardiology clinical trials from #ACC24 , which will either change or inform practice. This is a tour de force which is not to be missed! P.S. It just so turns out…

1/2: There are few things that render me speechless. But, when those moments occur, they represent magic. There is a reason the universe moves as it does. With grace, with time, with intention. Those moments lead us to each other. And, often, to our “selves”.

Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.

#DanGerShock trial in perspective
⤵️ Check the video summary
Full article available at #EHJACVC doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc…

CCCEnthusiasts don't miss this fantastic American College of Cardiology webinar 'Cardiogenic Shock in 2024: Practical Approach by the Experts,' Co-hosted by the ACC Critical Care Cardiology Council, the Indonesian Heart Association (IHA) on April 22nd! Sign-up link below! #ACCCriticalCare #ACCFIT