Mazen Hanna is a staff cardiologist in the section of heart failure and cardiac transplantation medicine at the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. He is the director of the Heart Failure Intensive Care Unit and co-director of the Amyloid Program. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Hanna performs right and left heart catheterization as well as an endomyocardial biopsy. In addition to office visits, Dr. Hanna also offers scheduled follow-up virtual visits to select patients through the Cleveland Clinic Express Care® Online app. This platform allows patients to see their physician live, using their smartphone, tablet, or computer. Dr. Hanna received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in Psychology. He received his Medical Degree from Ohio State University and went on to do his Internal Medicine training at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he received the Outstanding Medical Resident Teacher Award. He came back to Cleveland to do his Cardiology Fellowship training at Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Campus, where he was appointed Chief Cardiovascular Fellow. He completed his training with a one-year Advanced Fellowship in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic. He was appointed as a staff cardiologist in 2006.
Vanessa Blumer is currently an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. She serves as FIT Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure, social media (SoMe) Editor for Circulation, and is the FIT co-chair for the executive committee of the Women in Transplant and MCS group. She received her Medical Degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela, completed Internal Medicine Residency and a Chief Resident year at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, and received a Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship as well as a 1-year Fellowship in Cardiovascular Research at Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). Her research interests primarily include the clinical outcomes of acute and advanced heart failure patients, including those with cardiogenic shock and those requiring mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation, as well as health disparities and gaps in the implementation of heart failure. She is also very interested in the intersection between heart failure and critical care and in exploring novel training pathways that consider the heart failure-cardiac critical care overlap.
Milind Desai, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, and FESC, is the Director of Clinical Operations of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He holds the Haslam Family Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and has dual appointments in the Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine and Radiology. Dr. Desai is the Director of the Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, the Medical Director of the Center for Aortic Diseases, and an integral part of the Center for Valvular Heart Disease. He is an expert in multimodal cardiovascular imaging and proficient in all imaging modalities, including cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. He serves on the Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute councils, including the Executive Council, Operations Council, and Research Council.
Wai Hong Wilson Tang, MD, is the Research Director and staff cardiologist in the Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Medicine in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Tang is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Tang graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in neural sciences from Brown University in Rhode Island, where he matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge University, in England, for an honorary one-year period of study in molecular medicine. Dr. Tang received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine, as well as a research fellowship in heart failure at Stanford University Medical Center. This was followed by clinical cardiology fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic and an advanced clinical fellowship in heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He was appointed to the Cleveland Clinic in 2004 as a Staff Physician in the Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Medicine. Dr. Tang is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, advanced heart failure, and transplant cardiology. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Heart Failure Society of America.
Patrick Collier, MD, PhD, FASE, FESC, and FACC, is a cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is Co-Director of the Cardio-Oncology Center, Associate Director of the Echo Lab, and Associate Professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Collier was the top overall undergraduate in his final medicine class at the National University of Ireland in Cork. He completed his internship and residencies in medicine and surgery at Cork University and Mid-Western Regional Hospitals. Dr. Collier was a cardiology fellow in the National Cardiology Training Program and earned his Ph.D. at University College Dublin, completing a Clinician Scientist fellowship involving translational medical research in the area of cardiac fibrosis (heart scarring). He completed an additional fellowship in multi-modality cardiovascular imaging at the Cleveland Clinic and was appointed to the Cleveland Clinic professional staff in 2013. He obtained ABIM Board Certification in Internal Medicine (via the Faculty Pathway) in 2017. He obtained ABIM Board Certification in Cardiovascular Medicine (via the Faculty Pathway) in 2018.
