Three decades of treating advanced heart failure: an interview with Mario Deng

Mario Deng is a Professor of Medicine – Cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (CA, USA). His core professional vision is to develop, practice and teach optimal personalized care concepts for patients with advanced heart failure. For most of his career, his key research focus has been the intersectionality between clinical cardiology and bench-to-bedside translational research, specifically the interaction between the cardiovascular and the immune system. He has served in numerous prestigious leadership roles including as Founding Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Device Database of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (2001−2006) and as...