Heart Failure

Our Experts

The Heart Failure Program brings together experts in diagnosing and treating heart failure and associated heart rhythm abnormalities as well as the underlying conditions. Our team also recognizes that treating heart failure is not just a physical challenge but requires the patient's intellectual and emotional support. We work with our patients to provide the highest quality of care.

Doctors

• Dr. Michael S. Blum, cardiologist

• Dr. Kanu Chatterjee, cardiologist

• Dr. Michael H. Crawford, chief of Clinical Cardiology

• Dr. Teresa De Marco, director of heart transplantation

• Dr. Thomas Sloane Guy, cardiothoracic surgeon

• Dr. Gregory M. Marcus, cardiologist and electrophysiologist

• Dr. Dana P McGlothlin, cardiologist

• Dr. J. Eduardo Rame, cardiologist

• Dr. Isobel Russell, cardiac anesthesiologist

Nurses

Amanda Browne is the heart failure nurse coordinator at the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center. Her key interests are educating patients about the signs and symptoms of heart failure exacerbation as well as lifestyle changes and therapy to help patients live with this chronic disease. In addition, Browne has been involved in research studying gene mutations that can cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Her research on heart disease has been widely published in medical journals.

Browne earned a nursing degree and graduate degree in cardiovascular nursing and genomics at UCSF. She is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses, Heart Failure Society of America and American Association of Critical Care Nurses.