Professional Bio
Kelly Schlendorf, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Vanderbilt's adult heart transplant program, and Section Chief overseeing Vanderbilt's section of heart failure and transplantation.
She received her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine, graduating summa cum laude. She went on to complete training in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where she also completed a Masters in Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Then she pursued a year of subspecialty training in advanced heart failure and transplantation at Duke University Medical Center.
Dr. Schlendorf joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2012. Under her leadership, Vanderbilt's adult heart transplant program has grown to become one of the largest volume programs in the world, playing a pioneering role in the use of hearts from hepatitis C-infected donors as a strategy to expand the heart donor pool.
Her research interests include exploration of strategies to further expand the donor pool and improve quantity and quality of life after heart transplantation.
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Education
MD - Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Residency - Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins University, 2008
Fellowship - Adult Cardiology - Johns Hopkins University, 2011
Fellowship - Advance Heart Failure - Duke University, 2012
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307