Heart Failure Beat
Heart Failure Society of America
Subscribe
Each month, join the Heart Failure Society of America as we interview the top heart failure care providers on the latest breakthroughs in heart failure research and treatment. We will have candid conversations about the topics that face care providers on a daily basis. If you’re a cardiology provider, trainee, person living with heart failure, or just plain interested in hearing discussions about heart failure news from leading experts, this is the podcast for you! Listen and subscribe below.
Available episodes
Newest first
Oldest first
6 days ago
Economic Considerations in the Management of Heart Failure
Our co-hosts interview Paul Heidenreich, MD, FHFSA a co-author of the 2022 ACC/AHA/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure about economic considerations in the management of HF. On "From Failure to Function", Priya dives into the late breaking trials from ACC.23 and Michael reviews three papers on HFpEF on HF Rounds.
playlist_add
Mar 16, 2023
Tachy Beats with Preethi Pirlamarla, MD: AHFTC Faculty Promotion Tips
Attention aspiring Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology faculty, this quick segment is for you! Looking for good advice on succeeding as an early career faculty member? Tune in as Michael Beasley, MD, interviews Preethi Pirlamarla, MD, on her ACC.org publication, Academic Medicine: Demystifying the Appointment Process.
playlist_add
Mar 2, 2023
Tachy Beats with Biykem Bozkurt MD, PhD, FHFSA: Complementary and Alternative Medicines
On this quick follow-up to the February episode, Priya Umapthi MD interviews Biykem Bozkurt MD, PhD, FHFSA on CAM - what is it and what are the risks of CAM to GDMT?
playlist_add
Feb 16, 2023
Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicines
Tune into this episode of HF Beat to hear co-hosts Michael Beasley, MD, and Priya Umapathi, MD, discuss complementary and alternative meds in the treatment of HF with guest, Nosheen Reza, MD.
playlist_add
Jan 12, 2023
Heart Failure Science: Top Takeaways from 2022 Part 2
On part two of this episode series, hosts Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umapathi, MD continue their discussion on the top highlights of 2022 with current HFSA president Dr. John Teerlink. The STRONG-HF clinical trial, the future of Omecamtiv Mecarbil and the METEORIC-HF trial are discussed. Priya introduces her new episode segment "From Failure to Function," which summarizes the latest heart failure research presented at meetings around the world.
playlist_add
Dec 22, 2022
Heart Failure Science: Top Takeaways from 2022 Part I
Hosts Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umapathi, MD interview current and immediate past presidents John Teerlink MD, FHFSA, and Mark Drazner MD, MSc, FHFSA on the most significant events that took place in the field of heart failure in 2022 on this two-part series. Part one dives into SGLT2 inhibitors, the rapid uptitration of GDMT, and cardiac xenotransplantation. Michael also delivers HF Rounds, his new segment which features a succinct peek into interesting news from HF journals. Stay tuned for Part II coming in January!
playlist_add
Nov 2, 2022
Introducing Our New Co-Hosts
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.
playlist_add
Jun 14, 2022
Exploring The Impact of Healthcare Disparities on Patients with Heart Failure
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.
playlist_add
Jun 6, 2022
Training in Advanced Heart Failure Training and Career Paths Part II
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).
playlist_add
Apr 14, 2022
Training in Advanced Heart Failure Training and Career Paths Part I
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.
playlist_add
Mar 14, 2022
Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in HF – Evidence vs. Practicality
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.
playlist_add
Feb 14, 2022
Perspectives From Women in Heart Failure
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.
playlist_add
Oct 1, 2021
Live from HFSA 2021 - An Interview with HFSA Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
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.
playlist_add
Jul 14, 2021
Challenges Facing Delivery of Heart Failure Care in the Rural U.S.
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.
playlist_add
Jun 7, 2021
Marijuana Usage & Impact on Heart Failure and Heart Transplant
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.
playlist_add
Apr 20, 2021
Meet the New Senior Editors of the Journal of Cardiac Failure
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.
playlist_add
Mar 16, 2021
Behind the Scenes on the Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure
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
playlist_add
Feb 21, 2021
COVID-19 and Heart Failure One Year In: An Update
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.
playlist_add
Feb 9, 2021
Pregnancy and Heart Failure: Emerging Science on Diagnosis and Treatment
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.
playlist_add
Sep 15, 2020
Listening to Classical Music May Help Patients with Heart Failure: Insights from a New Study and Soprano Renee Fleming
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.
playlist_add
Aug 5, 2020
Evolving Approaches to Heart Failure Management in the COVID-19 Era
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.
playlist_add
Apr 27, 2020
Virtual Visits for Care of Patients with Heart Failure in the Era of COVID-19
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.
playlist_add