- Heart transplant surgery
Thomas P. Cappola, MD, ScM
About me
- Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- William Smilow Professor
My education and training
- Harvard UniversityMedical School
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s HospitalResidency
- Johns Hopkins HospitalFellowship
Spoken languages
Reviews
Insurance accepted
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Qualifications and experience
- Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, 2010
- Cardiovascular Disease, 2002
- American Heart Association, National
- American Society of Clinical Investigation, National
- Association of American Physicians, National
- Association of Professors of Cardiology, National
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Kings College, London, UK, International
- Fellow, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Local
- Heart Failure Society of America, National
- Inter-Urban (Osler) Clinical Club, National
- International Society for Heart Research, International
- International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, International
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Special Emphasis Panel ZHL1 CSR-H (F1): Single-or Multi-Site Clinical Trials Phase I, II, III, National
- Heart transplant
- Penn Transplant Institute
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Kim M, Subramanian V, Tavolinejad H, Sarmiento Bustamante M, Pourmussa B, Mann DL, Javaheri A, Richards AM, Doughty RN, Rietzschel E, van Empel V, Zamani P, Cappola TP, Tong D, Chung S, Pandey A, Chirinos JA. Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential Proteomic Risk Score for Predicting Clinical Outcome in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. , Circ Heart Fail: 2026,doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.126.014345
Zelleke AB, Azzo JD, Moreno JD, Mann DL, Cappola TP, Chirinos JA, Javaheri A. RACGAP1 as a Circulating Biomarker of Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure: A Dual-Cohort Proteomic Study , Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol, 19(5): 2026,e014024
Skarke C, El Jamal N, Genuardi MV, Brooks TG, Mrčela A, Lahens NF, Cordoza M, Sarles S, Mbadugha A, Karunamuni DR, Gupta S, Bae CJ, Sehgal A, Cappola TP, Gutsche JT, Atluri P, Desai ND, Acker MA, Grant GR, Schwab RJ, Rosen IM, FitzGerald GA. Quantifying sleep wake rhythms in the hospital environment with digital technologies , NPJ Digit Med, 9(1): 2026,479
Vidula MK, Schurgers LJ, Zhao L, Dib MJ, Zhao M, Wang Z, Ebert C, Salman O, Azzo JD, Zamani P, van Empel V, Richards AM, Doughty R, Javaheri A, Mann DL, Rietzschell E, Kammerhoff K, Schafer P, Seiffert DA, Ramirez-Valle F, Cappola TP, Chirinos JA. Dephospho-Uncarboxylated Matrix Gla-Protein Is Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Heart Failure. , Circ Heart Fail, 19(2): 2026,e012734
Mann DL, Chirinos JA, Yu J, Yang W, McNamara DM, Richards B, Taddei-Peters WC, Jeffries N, Stewart GC, Qian C, Cappola TP, Aaronson KD; REVIVAL Investigators. Circulating Proteomic Profiles in Ambulatory Patients With Advanced Stage C2D Heart Failure: Insights From the Registry Evaluation of Vital Information for VADs in Ambulatory Life (REVIVAL) Registry. , J Card Fail, 32(8): 2026,1451-1455
Abramowitz SA, Hoffman-Andrews L, Zhang D, Judy R, Cappola TP, Day SM, Reza N, Owens AT, Damrauer SM, Levin MG; Penn Medicine BioBank Polygenic background and penetrance of pathogenic variants in hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies. , JAMA Cardiol: 2025,e254739
Vajargah KK, Dib MJ, Tavolinejad H, Zamani P, Richards AM, Mann DL, Rietzschel E, van Empel V, Burgess S, Cappola TP, Chirinos JA. Proteome-Wide Genetic Investigation of Kidney Function in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. , JACC Heart Fail: 2025,102771
Woerner J, Westbrook TM, Joo J, Shivakumar M, Venkatesh R, Cherlin T, Jung SH, Jeong S, Maseda D, McKeague M, Shwetank, Ionita M, Wagenaar J, Abramowitz SA, Verma A, Zhao B, Lee S, Damrauer S, Levin MG, Heo SC, Cappola TP, Rader DJ, Day S, Deo R, Gelfand JM, Ramessur R, Guerraty MA, Setia-Verma S, Pasaniuc B, Ritchie MD, Apostolidis SA, Greenplate AR, Wherry EJ; Penn Medicine Biobank; Nam Y, Kim D. Large-scale evaluation of proteomic and polygenic risk scores reveals complementary contributions to incident disease prediction. , medRxiv [Preprint]: 2025,25331242
Lindholm ME, Abramowitz S, Waggott DM, Grove ME, Dewey FE, Pan C, Pavlovic A, Shang C, Huang Y, Bensabath L, Goldfeder RL, Cordero P, Erbilgin A, Priest JR, Chaib H, Puckelwartz MJ, Day SM, McNally EM, Cappola T, Dorn GW, Ashley EA, Wheeler MT Identification of candidate cardiomyopathy modifier genes through genome sequencing and RNA profiling , Front Cardiovasc Med, 12: 2025,1546493
Wang Q, Tang TM, Youlton M, Weldy CS, Kenney AM, Ronen O, Hughes JW, Chin ET, Sutton SC, Agarwal A, Li X, Behr M, Kumbier K, Moravec CS, Tang WHW, Margulies KB, Cappola TP, Butte AJ, Arnaout R, Brown JB, Priest JR, Parikh VN, Yu B, Ashley EA Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy , Nat Cardiovasc Res, 4(6): 2025,740