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A Pioneering Heart Transplant Program

The Transplant Center—Doctors, heart

Leslie W Miller MD, FACC

Leslie W. Miller, medical director of heart transplant at University of Minnesota Medical Center, is a board-certified specialist in cardiovascular diseases, a professor of medicine and director of the cardiovascular division at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Miller has chaired or co-chaired numerous symposia at national and international cardiology meetings. His particular specialty is managing patients with heart failure and transplants through Cardiovascular Services at University of Minnesota Medical Center. Dr. Miller has authored or co-authored more than 125 journal articles and book chapters.

Dr. Miller was instrumental in the success of ventricular assist device (VAD) and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) testing through the REMATCH program funded by the National Institutes of Health. University of Minnesota Medical Center is a leading center in LVAD use.

Specialties

• Cardiology
• Heart Failure
• Internal Medicine

Academics

• Completed his medical degree (cum laude) and an internship at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia
• Completed his internal medicine residency at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
• Cardiology training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

Organizations

• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
• Member of Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association
• Member of the American Council on Transplantation
• Member of the Heart Failure Society of America
• Member of the Board of Directors and past President of the American Society of Transplant Physicians
• Member and past President of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation
• Member of editorial boards: Transplantation Reviews, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, American Journal of Cardiology, Clinical Transplantation, and Journal of Heart Failure

Dr. Miller’s research interests include the diagnosis and management of vascular rejection, steroid withdrawal, and allograft coronary artery disease in cardiac transplantation; home inotropic infusions for refractory heart failure; and the role of b-blockers in heart failure. Dr. Miller has presented on numerous occasions, both nationally and internationally, at symposia and grand rounds sponsored by the American Society of Transplant Physicians, the European Society of Transplantation, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology.