Heart Failure Beat
Episodes
MRAs in HFpEF & HFmrEF: A Clinical Debate
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) ready for prime time in HFpEF and HFmrEF? In this special debate-format episode of the Heart Fail...
Integrating Technology for Smarter Heart Failure Care
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Heart failure care is entering a new era - one defined not by singular devices, but by integrated systems of technology working together. In this epis...
Rethinking Sodium Restriction in Heart Failure: What the Evidence (Doesn’t) Show
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, sodium restriction has been treated as a cornerstone of heart failure self-care—despite limited trial-quality evidence. In this episode...
HFSA Presidential Voices: Leading the Modern Era of Heart Failure
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Priya Umapathi, MD speaks with six HFSA past presidents live from ASM 2025. Nancy M. Albert, PhD, CCNS, CCRN, NE-BC, Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, Jim Fang...
Revisiting the Fundamentals: Hemodynamics at the Heart of Heart Failure Care
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest editors Drs. Mak, Burkhoff, and Belkin join Heart Failure Beat to unpack the Journal of Cardiac Failure Hemodynamics Focus Issue. They discuss h...
Behind the Pages of the New Journal, JCF-Intersections
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the editorial team behind JCF-Intersections, HFSA’s and the JCF Family of Journal’s new open-access journal. Drs. Jason Katz and Nosheen Reza...
Gene Therapy Breakthroughs in Genetic Cardiomyopathies
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Heart Failure Beat, Dr. Eric Adler of UC San Diego Health joins the show to discuss his landmark gene therapy trial for Danon d...
From Triage to Treatment: A Roadmap for Cardiogenic Shock Response
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heart Failure Beat, Dr. Shashank Sinha—Medical Director of the CICU at Inova Fairfax—joins hosts Dr. Priya Umapathi and Dr. Mic...
Understanding Sex Differences in Heart Failure: Clinical Insights and Treatment Gaps
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this compelling episode of the HF Beat, join hosts Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umapathi, MD and an esteemed panel of experts, including Dr. Eilee...
HF Stats 2024: Addressing the Growing Heart Failure Crisis
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the HF Beat, our hosts Michael and Priya sit down with Dr. Biykem Bozkurt, a leading expert in heart failure, to discuss the alarmi...
Driving Heart Failure Care Forward: HFSA’s Vision for 2025 with President Dr. Michael Felker
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of HF Beat, Michael Felker, MD, FHFSA, current HFSA President, shares HFSA’s vision for the coming year, highlighting initiatives to...
Get with the Guidelines! Contemporary Heart Failure Clinical Practice Updates from HFSA: Devices, Cardio-Oncology, and Palliative Care
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode highlights critical updates in heart failure care with insights from leading experts. First, Marat Fudim, MD, MHS discusses the HFSA sta...
A Year With HFSA: Dr. James Fang on the State of Heart Failure Care
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Heart Failure Beat, our hosts sit down with Dr. James Fang, immediate past president of the Heart Failure Society of America, t...
How AI Can Revolutionize Heart Failure Care
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heart Failure Beat, Priya and Michael interview Dr. Partho Sengupta – cardiology artificial intelligence (AI) aficionado – who...
Shifting the Paradigm of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Training
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the July episode of the Heart Failure Beat, we celebrate the graduation of newly-minted advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologists. Michae...
HFpEF: The Future is Now
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode, we welcome guests Stuart Prenner, MD and Kavita Sharma, MD to discuss what is quickly becoming the predominant form of heart ...
Obesity in Heart Failure: This Is Our Lane!
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the May episode of the Heart Failure Beat, Michael and Priya welcome Amanda Vest, MBBS, MPH, FHFSA and Adrian daSilva-deAbreu, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D to...
Is ACHD just HF by a different name?
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the April episode of the Heart Failure Beat, Priya and Michael take on adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) with guests Chetan Pasrija, MD, MS, a...
Nuances of HF Care for Women and a Special Visit from Members of Women in Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support (WiTMCS)
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are pleased to announce that we are back after a brief hiatus, with segments recorded around the holidays in late 2023. In this episode, our hosts ...
Constructive Disruption with the JCF Editors
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Priya and Michael chat with the editors of the Journal of Cardiac Failure about what constructive disruption to scientific publishing means, touching ...
Decoding the Trends Discovered Through HF Stats℠
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The newly released HF Stats℠ revealed that the incidence, prevalence, mortality and hospitalization rates of heart failure are increasing despite...
Highlights from the HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting 2023
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we bring you interviews recorded live at the HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting in early October 2023. The episode kicks off with a discu...
Ambulatory PA Pressure Monitoring in Heart Failure: Concepts and Controversies
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our co-hosts interview Jacob Abraham, MD, about navigating the concepts and controversies surrounding Ambulatory PA Pressure Monitoring for heart fail...
From Policy to Practice: The Evolution of Heart Transplant Allocation, UNOS and What Lies Ahead
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's featured discussion, our co-hosts interview Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD, and Shelley Hall, MD, on the 2018 update to the UNOS allocation sys...
Coronary Revascularization in Ischemic Heart Failure
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's featured discussion, our co-hosts welcome Yousif Ahmad, BMBS, MRCP, PhD, and review the evidence supporting coronary revascularization...
Pearls and Pitfalls for the General Practitioner Treating Heart Failure
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The program's hosts, Michael Beasley, MD, and Priya Umapathi, MD, interview Clyde Yancy, MS, MSc, as well as Robert Centor, MD, MACP, about best pract...
Equity in Heart Transplant - The Conversation Continues
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation around equity in care continues as our co-hosts interview Nasrien Ibrahim, MD, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Th...
Tachy Beats with Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS: Management of Patients on Durable MCS
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Beasley, MD sits down with Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS, one of the co-authors on the recently released HFSA Expert Consensus Statement on the Med...
Economic Considerations in the Management of Heart Failure
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tachy Beats with Preethi Pirlamarla, MD: AHFTC Faculty Promotion Tips
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Attention aspiring Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology faculty, this quick segment is for you! Looking for good advice on succeeding as a...
Tachy Beats with Biykem Bozkurt MD, PhD, FHFSA: Complementary and Alternative Medicines
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicines
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 trea...
Heart Failure Science: Top Takeaways from 2022 Part 2
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 curr...
Heart Failure Science: Top Takeaways from 2022 Part I
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umapathi, MD interview current and immediate past presidents John Teerlink MD, FHFSA, and Mark Drazner MD, MSc, FH...
Introducing Our New Co-Hosts
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. Tun...
Exploring The Impact of Healthcare Disparities on Patients with Heart Failure
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast host Kevin Shah, MD, engages Alanna Morris, MD, and Robert Page, PharmD, co-authors of the HFSA Position Paper The Impact of Healthcare Disp...
Training in Advanced Heart Failure Training and Career Paths Part II
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tune into this episode to hear two leaders elaborate on the complexities that exist between Critical Care Cardiology (CCC) and Advance Heart Failure T...
Training in Advanced Heart Failure Training and Career Paths Part I
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tune into this episode to hear four physicians discuss challenges in recruiting trainees to pursue and excel in the field of advanced heart failure. H...
Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in HF – Evidence vs. Practicality
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hear a discussion on GDMT and the gaps between the evidence and the practicality of implementation. They discuss the gap between trial-proven evidence...
Perspectives From Women in Heart Failure
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from four leaders (Drs. Sharon Hunt, Mahazarin Ginwalla, Nancy Albert, and Silia DeFilippis) in heart failure/transplant cardiology about both hi...
Live from HFSA 2021 - An Interview with HFSA Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Challenges Facing Delivery of Heart Failure Care in the Rural U.S.
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in for a discussion on challenges occurring in the delivery of heart failure care (including access, telehealth, and advanced therapies) in the r...
Marijuana Usage & Impact on Heart Failure and Heart Transplant
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our host Dr. Kevin Shah discusses with three expert clinicians (Dr. Eileen Hsich, Dr. Ersilia DeFilippis, & Dr. Kathleen Faulkenberg) the impact of ma...
Meet the New Senior Editors of the Journal of Cardiac Failure
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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.
Behind the Scenes on the Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss with co-chairs Drs Biykem Bozkurt and Andrew Coats the background, updates, and major changes in the recently published Consensus Statement...
COVID-19 and Heart Failure One Year In: An Update
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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.
Pregnancy and Heart Failure: Emerging Science on Diagnosis and Treatment
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of the Heart Failure Beat, Drs. Mary Norine Walsh and Kathryn Lindley discuss recent advances in the diagnosis and management of pregn...
Listening to Classical Music May Help Patients with Heart Failure: Insights from a New Study and Soprano Renee Fleming
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A music intervention from Italy involving daily listening of classical music selections was shown to improve quality of life and other outcomes in pat...
Evolving Approaches to Heart Failure Management in the COVID-19 Era
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Virtual Visits for Care of Patients with Heart Failure in the Era of COVID-19
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Virtual Visits for the care of patients with heart failure in the era of COVID-19 and beyond -- best practices, policy changes, reimbursement, and mor...