Medical Director, Heart Transplant
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Dr Jignesh Patel is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute and is Medical Director of the Heart Transplant Program, Director of the Cardiac Amyloid Program, and Director of Heart Transplant Research at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. He is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Disease and Transplantation.
Dr Patel earned his bachelor's degree with honors at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (UK), and received his medical degree from that institution. Dr Patel relocated to the United States and performed an internal medicine residency at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and subsequently completed training in cardiovascular diseases in conjunction with his doctorate in the Subspecialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program at UCLA, where he also served as Clinical Instructor and Chief Cardiology Fellow.
Dr Patel’s areas of clinical and research interest are the management of patients with advanced heart failure and following cardiac transplantation. Dr Patel has been the Principal or Co-Investigator for more than 25 research projects, which include clinical trials of immunosuppressive agents, non-invasive technologies for the detection of rejection, and multicenter trials in congestive heart failure. His research into these and other areas has resulted in more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed publications, several books chapters, and more than 300 abstracts. He also has lectured extensively on heart failure, transplant immunology, and cardiac amyloidosis.
Dr Patel serves as Chair of the Heart Failure and Transplantation Council of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. He serves on the Heart Failure and Transplantation Leadership Council at the American College of Cardiology. Dr Patel is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK).
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Thursday, February 13, 2020
2:45 PM – 4:10 PM
Thursday, February 13, 2020
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
