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J. Thomas Heywood MD

Co-Director, Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA

J. Thomas Heywood, MD

Medical Director,
Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program
Director, Heart Failure Research and Recovery Program
Co-Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA

Dr. Heywood is the Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at Scripps Health in La Jolla, California. He also serves as Director of the Heart Failure Recovery and Research Program and Co Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, and Echocardiography.

Previously, Dr. Heywood served as Director of the Adult Cardiac Transplantation Program and Director of the Cardiomyopathy Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He also served as Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

Dr. Heywood has served on a variety of boards including the Advisory Council to Improve Outcomes Nationwide in Heart Failure Consensus Recommendations for the Management of Chronic Heart Failure, the Board of Directors, American Heart Association, Inland Empire Chapter, and Board of Directors, Loma Linda Veterans Administration Research and Education among others. He has been a principle investigator in many pivotal heart failure trials and is very active in clinical heart failure research. He is the author of numerous articles, abstracts and book chapters on congestive heart failure. In 2011, he was co-editor for the book “The Cardiorenal syndrome: A Clinican’s Guide to Pathophysiology and Management” with John Burnett, MD, of Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Heywood received a degree in Theology at Loyola University, Chicago and a medical degree from the University of California, San Diego. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine in San Diego followed by a cardiology fellowship at Loma Linda University Medical Center. After his cardiology fellowship he spent a year as a cardiovascular research fellow at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.


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