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Ileana L. Piña, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
VA Quality Scholar
Cleveland, OH
Ileana L. Piña, MD, a Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholar, has served as Director of the Exercise Laboratory of the University of Miami, of Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation at Hahnemann University, and of Cardiomyopathy at Temple University and Heart Failure/Transplantation at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Piña was also the principal investigator in multiple heart failure trials including PRECISE (carvedilol), ELITE (losartan), ATLAS (lisinopril), CHARM (candesartan) and SCDHeFT; and Chair of Steering Committee of the NHLBI's HF ACTION trial. She also served as coinvestigator in other trials such as Bosentan, VEST. Dr. Piña is also a consultant for the Device section of the FDA.
Dr. Piña is Co-Director of the N-HeFT Program, sponsored by Case Western Reserve University, consisting of 34 national sites that train cardiologists and primary care physicians and their medical teams to improve care for heart failure patients. Dr. Piña has authored numerous publications in the area of heart failure, exercise, and gender differences and collaborated to establish the HFSA Heart Failure Guidelines. She has edited the books Exercise and Heart Failure and The Year in Heart Failure 2004. Dr. Piña also reviews for Circulation, American Journal of Cardiology, and American Heart Journal. She sits on the editorial boards of Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Current Cardiology Reports.
