Amy G. Fiedler, MD Named Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Amy G. Fiedler will assume the role as our new Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support beginning July 1, 2025.

The transplant program has evolved dramatically over the last 3 years and is now recognized as a destination program for the management of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant across the country and internationally. Dr. Fiedler has been a major part of this transformation.

A graduate of Georgetown University with a BS in Biology magna cum laude, and a Masters in Science in Microbiology and Immunology summa cum laude, Dr. Fiedler went on to complete her medical degree at George Washington University. Dr. Fiedler trained in both general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she also spent two years in a post-doctoral research fellowship in heart failure. She is now a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery.

Dr. Fiedler participated in the early work on donation after circulatory death in heart transplantation which has had a major impact on increasing the number of heart transplants performed in the United States each year. She utilizes short-term and long-term artificial heart pumps in innovative ways to bridge patients to transplant and provide patients with definitive solutions to cardiac failure.

Dr. Fiedler has served as the Co-director for the cardiovascular and thoracic ICU and as the Cardiac Surgery Medical Director for Quality and Safety at UCSF and serves as the Director of Global Cardiac Surgery for the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA).

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Fiedler into this important leadership role!