• Participate in the inpatient care of patients on the CHF and cardiac transplant service
• Participate in the outpatient CHF and cardiac transplant clinics
• Evaluate patients referred for cardiac transplantation and determine candidacy 
• Participate in CHF satellite clinics
• Determine candidacy for cardiac resynchronization and defibrillator therapies including interpreting device interrogation
• Participate in procedures, including endomyocardial biopsies, Swan-Ganz catheter placement and device-based therapies for CHF
• Participate in and coordinate perioperative care for cardiac transplant patients including pre-operative orders, line placement, etc.
• Participate in post-operative and outpatient management of patients with mechanical circulatory support
• Evaluate inpatient referrals for cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support 
• Take calls for the heart failure service
• Participate in research protocols in CHF and transplant
• Work closely with the nurse coordinators and the physician’s assistant
• Attend and participate in Cardiac Transplant/Ventricular Assist Device Patient Selection Conference
• Attend all mandatory fellowship conferences as outlined in the cardiology fellowship curriculum
• Participate in clinical trial enrollment and evaluation to become adept in clinical trial design, determining appropriate outcomes to assess and interpreting statistics to obtain results

• Become proficient in the diagnosis and management of patients with advanced heart failure and patients who have undergone cardiac transplantation or ventricular assist device
• Learn the nuances of outpatient and inpatient care of these patients in terms of medications and their side effects
• Learn when and how to work up a patient for cardiac transplantation, short vs. long term mechanical circulatory support
• Learn about post-transplant immunosuppression and management of these medications and their side effects and comorbidities associated with cardiac transplant 
• Learn when and how to enroll patients in CHF clinical trials and the benefits of clinical trial research
• Develop skills in device-based therapies for CHF

Evaluation will be carried out by the CHF program faculty. Evidence of progress will be discussed with the fellow on a continuing basis.

MD: The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Residency: Case Western, University Hospitals of Cleveland
General Cardiology Fellowship: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Naveen.Saha@osumc.edu