Sara Shumway, MD

Current research focuses on improving heart and lung transplant outcomes, cardiac resuscitation, studying new medical devices (currently working on a clinical trial testing a new LVAD device (left ventricular modeling), which supports a failing heart; testing new heart valves, pediatric heart devices. and new approaches to managing organ rejection (new immunosuppressant techniques and non-invasive detection of cardiac allograft rejection). She and her team are also studying approaches to treating pump thrombosis.