Current Projects

Analysis and Publications (A&P)

Principal InvestigatorProposal Title
David Morales
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Merging the Pedimacs Database with the Congenital Heart Surgery Database to Evaluate Ventricular Assist Device Placement in Infants with Single Ventricle Heart Disease
Jonathan Grinstein
University of Chicago Medicine
Adverse Events Profile In Patients Undergoing LVAD Therapy While Supported On Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support
Gaurav Gulati
Tufts Medical Center
Kidney Disease, Right Ventricle Dysfunction and Outcomes in Older LVAD Recipients   
Indranee Rajapreyar
Tufts Medical Center
Partial Myocardial Recovery And Long-Term Post LVAD Outcomes
Humera Ahmed
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Explainable Machine Learning To Assess The Risk For Right Heart Failure During Pediatric Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement
Waldemar Carlo
University of Alabama Birmingham
Comparison of Outcomes Between Heartmate 3 and Cardiac Transplantation in Adolescents with Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Jeff Teuteberg/Sung-Min Cho
Stanford University/Johns Hopkins University
Epidemiology and Outcomes of Patients Bridged to Heart Transplant with Durable LVAD Support 
Michael Kiernan
Tufts Medical Center
Late Right Heart Failure after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: Impact on Outcomes and Association with Adverse Events Beyond One Year
Joseph Rossano
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Long Term Ventricular Assist Devices in Children
Todd Dardas
University of Washington
Modeling days alive and out of hospital for durable left ventricular assist device support
Daniel Goldstein
Montefiore Medical Center
Examining the Adverse Events Profile of BTT/BTC Patients after the UNOS Allocation Changes
James Kirklin
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Mortality risk prediction for patients who receive a HeartMate3 left ventricular assistance device

Participant User File (PUF)

Principal InvestigatorProposal Title
Francis Pagani
University of Michigan
Understanding The Impact Of LVAD Wean On Outcomes For Patients With Advanced Heart Failure
Carmelo Milano
Duke University Hospital
Outcomes of Patients Receiving Planned Biventricular Mechanical Circulatory Support
Amin Yehya
Sentara Heart Hospital
Impact of Pre-existing Ventricular Tachycardia on Outcomes in LVAD Recipients
Harikesh Subramanian
UPMC Presbyterian
Effects Of Social Determinants Of Health (Sdoh) On Complications After VAD Implantation: Exploration Of The ZIP Code And Outcomes
Erin Schumer
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Outcomes of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Device Based on Distance From Implant Center
Omar Saeed
Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein
Neurologic Dysfunction in Patients with Contemporary Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Paul Tang
Mayo Clinic
Preoperative Passive Cardiac Index Determines Left Ventricular Assist Device Outcomes
Lauren Cooper
Northwell Health
Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) for Heart Failure in Patients with Durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)
Donald Likosky
University of Michigan
Determinants of Interhospital Variability in Infections after Durable LVADs: Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs Database
Donna Mancini    
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai          
Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease and Ventricular Assist Device Outcomes: An Analysis of the STS INTERMACS Database
Vinod Thourani 
Piedmont Healthcare
Characterization of the natural history of aortic regurgitation in LVAD patients: an INTERMACS analysis
Leora Balsam
UMass Chan Medical School
INTERMACS Registry Trends and Outcomes after Heartmate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: The Impact of Surgical Approach
Keith Aaronson 
University of Michigan
A novel model to predict Gastrointestinal bleeding after a Heartmate 3 LVAD implantation
Eric Adler             
University of California-San Diego
Machine learning for prognostication in advanced heart failure
Jerry Estep
Cleveland Clinic
Predictors of hospital readmission burden and survival analysis in patients with contemporary continuous flow left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD)
Lucian Lozonschi 
Medical University of South Carolina
Ventricular arrhythmia post cf-left ventricular assist device placement – Trends within the STS Intermacs in the contemporary era
Duc Thinh Pham 
Northwestern University
Risk assessment model for wait list mortality in left ventricular assist device patients
Edward Grandin
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assessing the impact of beta-blockers on late right heart failure and survival after left ventricular assist device implantation