Dr. Tariq Ahmad is the Chief of Heart Failure at the Yale Section of Cardiovascular Medicine. He focuses on the care of patients with end stage heart failure, left ventricular assist devices, and cardiac transplantation. He completed his Internal Medicine training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. During that time, he received a scholarship to do an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. He did his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure at Duke University Medical Center along with a two year research fellowship at DCRI. His research interest is in using data to improve the care of heart failure patients, and he has close to 200 peer reviewed publications. He has partnered with several investigators to run pragmatic clinical trials that are aimed at answering foundational questions about the practice of heart failure.