Division of Cardiovascular Diseases:
Advanced Heart Failure and Recovery Program
The Scripps Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Pulmonary Hypertension program consists of board-certified advanced heart failure/transplant cardiologists knowledgeable in all aspects of heart failure, cardiomyopathies and cardiac transplantation. The Scripps Heart Failure program was founded in 2005 by Dr. J. Thomas Heywood and has grown considerably in the past decade, with more than 2500 patients seen in the Heart Failure clinic annually.
The Scripps Heart Failure program focuses on heart recovery with an emphasis on providing patient-centric, high quality inpatient and outpatient care. By focusing on best practices and quality metrics, Scripps Clinic physicians provide patients with the best possible outcomes. These metrics include hospital readmission rates significantly lower than the national average, excellent immediate and long-term survival rates with LVAD therapy and improved quality of life and outcomes in patients implanted with an ambulatory pulmonary artery sensor.
Our Heart Failure cardiologists work closely with Interventional Cardiologists, Cardiothoracic surgeons and Cardiac Electrophysiologists located on the same campus in a multi-disciplinary approach. This enables the team to provide access to procedures such as coronary stenting, surgical and transcatheter mitral, tricuspid and aortic valve replacement, transcatheter atrial and ventricular septal closure, cardiac gene therapy, left and right ventricular assist devices (VADs) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Featured Services
Heart Failure and Pulmonary Arterial and Venous Hypertension Clinic
Cardiac Amyloid and Cardio-Oncology Clinic
Cardiac Transplantation Clinic
Multi- Disciplinary Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Clinic
Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiogenic Shock Program
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Inpatient Service (inpatient)
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Program (inpatient)
Severe heart failure
Cardiomyopathy
Myocarditis
Arrhythmias
Valvular heart disease
Concomitant coronary artery diseases (CAD)
Recognitions & Awards
Dr. Heywood has been named one of San Diego’s Top Cardiologists and was formerly the Director of the Cardiac Transplant Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center
Dr. Mohan received the Heart Failure Society of America Travel Award and Teacher of the Year Award for fellows at Scripps Clinic
Dr. Srivastava has won numerous recognitions, including: International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Travel Award; Young Investigator Award Finalist- American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; Feasibility Research Award- American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; and Teacher of the Year award from Scripps Clinic
Co-founding and participating in numerous well-regarded cardiology forums including the Scripps Heart Failure and Arrhythmia Symposiums, The Scripps Cardiomyopathy and Cardio-Oncology Conference and the Scripps Cardiogenic Shock and Resuscitation Symposium
Our physicians have authored chapters in the leading textbooks on the subjects of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, including: The Cardiorenal Syndrome; Color Atlas of Cardiovascular Disease; Mechanical Circulatory Support: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease; and Algorithms in Heart Failure