Lynne Warner Stevenson, M.D.

Lynne Warner Stevenson M.D. is Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the
Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital. She has been Chairman of the Heart
Failure and Transplant Committee for the American College
of Cardiology, a member of the Board of Directors for the
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and
on the Executive Board of the Clinical Council of the
American Heart Association.

Dr. Stevenson chaired the
Consensus Conference on Mechanical Cardiac Support in
2000, and serves on the heart failure guideline committees
for the ACC, AHA, and HFSA. She participates on advisory
panels for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute on
heart failure, cardio-renal connections in heart disease, and the role of future ventricular assist devices, Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), and JCAHO, and was selected as an NIH “Great Teacher” in 2004.

Her early research focused on the central role of reversible congestion in the symptoms, valvular regurgitation, and prognosis of advanced heart failure. She has been involved in the conception and culmination of the recent NHLBI REMATCH and ESCAPE trials and the launch in March 2006 of the INTERMACS Registry for mechanical circulatory support.

Major commitments for her are to ensure that multiple different options are developed and offered in parallel to patients with advanced heart disease, and that there will be continuing entry of new cardiologists dedicated to refining the physiologic basis and art of caring for patients with heart failure.back