Description of Research Expertise

Heart failure, technology disease management, immunosuppression, clinical outcomes

Selected Publications

Elmariah S, Goldberg LR, Allen MT, Kao A: The effects of race on peak oxygen consumption and survival in patients with systolic dysfunction Journal of Cardiac Failure 16 (4): 332-9,2010.

Riegel B, Sayers S, Goldberg L, Weaver T, Jurkovitz C, Weintraub W, Potashnik S, Fleck D, Ratcliffe S: Determinants of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Adults With Heart Failure Circulation 120 : S515,2009.

Riegel B, Potashnik S, Goldberg L, Weaver T, Weintraub W, Fleck D, Sayers S: Is There a Better Way to Screen for Sleep Disordered Breathing in Adults With Heart Failure? Circulation 120 : S864,2009.

Flynn KE, Lin L, Ellis SJ, Russell SD, Spertus JA, Whellan DJ, Piña IL, Fine LJ, Schulman KA, Weinfurt KP: Outcomes, health policy, and managed care: relationships between patient-reported outcome measures and clinical measures in outpatients with heart failure. American Heart Journal 158 (4 Suppl): S64-71,2009.

Forman DE1, Clare R, Kitzman DW, Ellis SJ, Fleg JL, Chiara T, Fletcher G, Kraus WE: Relationship of age and exercise performance in patients with heart failure: the HF-ACTION study. American Heart Journal 158 (4 Suppl): S6-S15,2009.

Atchley AE1, Kitzman DW, Whellan DJ, Iskandrian AE, Ellis SJ, Pagnanelli RA, Kao A, Abdul-Nour K, O'Connor CM, Ewald G, Kraus WE, Borges-Neto S: Myocardial perfusion, function, and dyssynchrony in patients with heart failure: baseline results from the single-photon emission computed tomography imaging ancillary study of the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise TraiNing (HF-ACTION) Trial. American Heart Journal 158 (4 Suppl): S53-63,2009.

Horwich TB1, Leifer ES, Brawner CA, Fitz-Gerald MB, Fonarow GC: The relationship between body mass index and cardiopulmonary exercise testing in chronic systolic heart failure. American Heart Journal 158 (4 Suppl): S31-6,2009.

Felker GM1, Whellan D, Kraus WE, Clare R, Zannad F, Donahue M, Adams K, McKelvie R, Piña IL, O'Connor CM: N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and exercise capacity in chronic heart failure: data from the Heart Failure and a Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF-ACTION) study. American Heart Journal 158 (4 Suppl): S37-44,2009.

Gardin JM1, Leifer ES, Fleg JL, Whellan D, Kokkinos P, Leblanc MH, Wolfel E, Kitzman DW: Relationship of Doppler-Echocardiographic left ventricular diastolic function to exercise performance in systolic heart failure: the HF-ACTION study. American Heart Journal 158 (4 Suppl): S45-52,2009.

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Academic Contact Information

Penn Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant
11-171 South Tower
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-615-0820
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366