Richard Patten MD

Dr. Richard Patten received his medical degree from University of MD School of Medicine where he completed a medicine internship and residency along with an added year of Clinical Heart Failure Research. He completed his cardiology training at Tufts Medical Center in Boston in 1995 where he remained on staff through 2008 during which time he served as Associate Medical Director of the Heart Failure/Cardiac Transplant program.  He was also an NIH funded investigator within the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts, exploring the mechanisms by which estrogen and its receptors influence myocardial biology.  In 2008, he joined the New England Heart Institute in Manchester New Hampshire where he helped develop the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy service and launched a Mechanical Assist Device Program. In 2014, he began work at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, MA where he directs the Lahey Health Integrated Heart Failure Network – whose aim is to bring high quality heart failure care to Lahey Hospital and its affiliates.  Dr. Patten is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.  He has a particular interest in diagnosing and managing patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy at any stage.  His research interests include characterizing left bundle branch block-associated cardiomyopathy; he is also co-investigator on a funded study establishing an imaging and biomarker registry of patients with cardiac sarcoid.