Jennifer Cook MD

Jennifer Cook, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation at Banner, University Medical Center Tucson
Director, Advanced Heart Disease Fellowship Program
University of Arizona, Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ

Jennifer Lynn Cook, MD, is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson and Sarver Heart Center, and director of Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson. She also directs the Advanced Heart Disease Fellowship Program.

Dr. Cook is board certified in cardiovascular disease as well as advanced heart failure and transplantation. Her clinical research interests include application of clinical guidelines into clinical practice. She has been lead author on Circulation Recommendation manuscripts for Mechanical Circulatory Support and Acute Heart Transplant Rejection. Dr. Cook leads a clinical research network within Banner Health System. She also participates in clinical trials for novel drug therapy to help treat heart failure.

Previously, Dr. Cook was medical director of the ventricular assist device program at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Following medical school at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Dr. Cook completed her internal medicine residency at Medical University of South Carolina, and cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure fellowships at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.