# J. Eduardo Rame

> J. Eduardo Rame is a Philadelphia cardiologist who treats the sickest hearts in medicine - patients in the final stage of heart failure who depend on pumps, transplants and the chance their own muscle can be coaxed back to life. As the Louis R. Dinon MD Professor and enterprise chief of Advanced Cardiac and Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Jefferson Health, he runs an integrated division built around recovery rather than replacement. Yale-trained in biophysics, Oxford-trained in health economics and Harvard-trained in medicine, he spent a decade founding Penn's mechanical circulatory support program before bringing that work to Jefferson. His research on left ventricular assist devices, including the landmark MOMENTUM 3 trial, has been cited more than 12,000 times.

- **Role:** Enterprise Chief of Advanced Cardiac and Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Jefferson Health; Louis R. Dinon MD Professor at Thomas Jefferson University
- **Organizations:** Jefferson Health, Thomas Jefferson University (Sidney Kimmel Medical College), University of Pennsylvania Health System (former), American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, MPhil, Economics and Health Outcomes, University of Oxford, MD, Harvard Medical School, Internal Medicine Residency, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Johns Hopkins Hospital and NIH
- **Known for:** Named the Louis R. Dinon MD Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, Enterprise Chief of Advanced Cardiac and Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Jefferson Health, Founding Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support at Penn for about 10 years

## Career timeline

- **1997** — Earns MD from Harvard Medical School
- **2000s** — Completes internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern and cardiovascular fellowship at Johns Hopkins and the NIH
- **2000s-2010s** — Founding Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support at the University of Pennsylvania Health System for roughly a decade
- **2018** — Provides expert perspective on the MOMENTUM 3 trial comparing the HeartMate 3 and HeartMate II LVADs
- **2020s** — Joins Jefferson Health as Louis R. Dinon MD Professor and enterprise chief of Advanced Cardiac and Pulmonary Vascular Disease, leading an integrated heart failure and pulmonary hypertension division

## Achievements

- Named the Louis R. Dinon MD Professor at Thomas Jefferson University
- Enterprise Chief of Advanced Cardiac and Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Jefferson Health
- Founding Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support at Penn for about 10 years
- Co-author of the 2013 ISHLT Guidelines for Mechanical Circulatory Support (~1,587 citations)
- Co-author of a New England Journal of Medicine study on LVAD thrombosis (~920 citations)
- Google Scholar: 12,784 total citations, h-index 50, i10-index 105
- Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) and the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
- Board-certified in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology by ABIM

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Active on LinkedIn sharing reflections from high-level cardiology discussions and conferences

## Links

- Website: https://www.jefferson.edu/academics/colleges-schools-institutes/skmc/departments/medicine/divisions/cardiology/faculty/rame.html
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardo-rame-md-mphil-faha-fesc-50238748

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