James D Bergin, MD

Professor of Medicine, Medicine Director, Heart Failure and Transplant

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Faculty Profile

Dr. Bergin’s research interests include several collaborative projects with Electrophysiology (resynchronization pacing sites [ECG and MRI guided]), Structural Cardiology (REDUCE-LAP [left atrial shunting], Cardioband [tricuspid valve], Cor-Cinch-HF, Pascal [mitral regurgitation]), Surgery (COMPETENCE [EvaHeart VAD]), Surgery + Interventional Cardiology (DRAIN-HF [management of AKI with heart failure]), Biomedical Engineering (PRIME [exercise for HFrEF]), and SOCIAL HF (evaluation of transplant allocation).

• Progression to Transplant Under the New Heart Allocation System: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs Database.
• Improving Heart Failure Readmission Costs and Outcomes With a Hospital-to-Home Readmission Intervention Program.
• Ventricular assist devices and increased blood product utilization for cardiac transplantation.