Melana Yuzefpolskaya

Melana Yuzefpolskaya is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and Associate Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support/LVAD Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia. She completed her internal medicine residency at New York University Medical Center and a cardiovascular diseases fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia. Her research focuses on advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation, with recent work examining donor-derived cell-free DNA for rejection surveillance, aortic insufficiency in LVAD patients, and novel immunosuppressive and antiviral therapies in transplant recipients. She has co-authored over 145 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has presented at the American Heart Association, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and Heart Failure Society of America.