Monica Colvin-Adams, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic

Specialties
Heart failure and transplant

Medical School
University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama

Residency
Jackson Memorial Hospital at University of Miami, Miami, Florida

Fellowships
Cardiology, Jackson Memorial Hospital at University of Miami, Miami, Florida; Heart failure/transplantation, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Clinical Interests
Pulmonary hypertension; advanced heart failure; management of heart transplant recipients and LVAD recipients

Research Interests
Transplant vasculopathy and rejection, heart failure and diastolic dysfunction.

Recent Publications
de Marchena E, Colvin-Adams M, Esnard J, Ridha M, Castellanos A, Myerburg RJ. Ventriculophasic sinus arrhythmia in the orthotopic transplanted heart: mechanism of disease revisited. Int J Cardiol. 2003 Sep; 91(1): 71-4.

Book Chapters
“What is Heart Failure?” Cardiovascular Disease in Women, Published by the Association of Black Cardiologists.

Abstracts
Boyle AJ, Park SJ, Colvin-Adams MM, Liao KK, Ormaza SM, Thompson JM, Miller LW. Cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome following LVAD implantation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2003;22(1):S203-S203.

Boyle AJ, Park SJ, Colvin-Adams MM, Ormaza SM, Liao KK, Thompson JM, Miller LW. Predictors of poor RV function following LVAD implantation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2003; 22(1):S205-S205.