ERG | NY | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | Physicians

Patients with advanced heart failure need a physician who can change the trajectory of disease not just manage the next this role you will lead evaluation therapy selection and longitudinal care for people facing mechanical support transplant or complex medical management. Your judgment will determine who is listed who is bridged and who recovers enough to stay off both. You will practice where cardiology surgery and critical care meet and where outcomes are measured in survival graft function and days lived outside the hospital.

• Evaluate and risk-stratify referred patients with Stage D heart failure and produce a clear treatment planmedical optimization durable MCS or transplantwithin program timelines.
• Lead inpatient advanced-HF and post-transplant care so that length of stay readmission and early graft complications meet or beat program benchmarks.
• Select and manage temporary and durable mechanical support in partnership with cardiac surgery including candidacy complications and weaning or destination decisions.
• Build and maintain a transplant waitlist that reflects accurate urgency complete workups and documented multidisciplinary consensus.
• Direct outpatient follow-up for MCS and transplant recipients adjusting immunosuppression and HF therapy to protect graft function and reduce rejection and infection.
• Contribute to quality review UNOS/regulatory readiness and protocol updates that measurably improve listing-to-transplant efficiency and one-year survival.
• Teach fellows and advanced-practice clinicians so the service can cover call and clinic without gaps in decision quality.

• Practice within an established advanced heart failure MCS and transplant program alongside cardiac surgery critical care coordinators pharmacists and social work.
• Shared call dedicated MCS/transplant coordinators and access to temporary support durable devices and a full catheterization and imaging lab.
• Reporting line to the medical director of advanced heart failure and transplant with a defined clinic template inpatient service and protected time for selection conference.
• Support for board certification maintenance society membership and participation in outcomes registries.

• MD or DO ABIM Cardiovascular Disease certification and board certification or eligibility in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited advanced heart failure and transplant fellowship with hands-on MCS and post-transplant management.
• Unrestricted state medical license (or eligibility) and ability to obtain hospital privileges and DEA registration.
• Demonstrated participation in transplant selection committees and comfort with UNOS listing criteria and regulatory documentation.
• Evidence of safe independent call coverage for cardiogenic shock device alarms and early post-operative transplant care.

• A true advanced-therapy practicenot general cardiology with an occasional LVAD consult.
• Multidisciplinary partners already in place so your first year is spent treating patients not building a service from zero.
• Volume and case mix sufficient to maintain transplant and MCS competency.
• A compensation and call model designed for sustainable coverage plus support for teaching and quality work that counts toward promotion or partnership.

If you want your decisions to determine who receives a heart a pump or a real chance at recovery submit your CV and a short note on the advanced-therapy outcomes you have owned. We will respond with program details and a conversation with the medical director.