Monica Colvin-Adams, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Interim Director of Cardiac Transplant
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Ward

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: Myocardial recovery, peripartum cardiomypathy and inflammatory myopathies. Also participating in trials evaluating effect of exercise in heart failure

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.