Research

The Cardiology Division offers a wide range of research projects to our fellows. We have outstanding clinical research opportunities. We are the home to the world's most successful sudden death arrhythmia research group, the Heart Research Follow-up Program. This research team leads the MADIT series of trials and other leading clinical studies in devices which treat lethal arrhythmias and conduction system defects.

The Cardiology Division also offers basic research within the Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI). A wide range of basic science projects are available at the CVRI, including research into vascular biology, heart failure, and ion channels. The CVRI also is home to the URMC Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Med-into-Grad Graduate Program for translational biomedical research.

View our Division research pages.

Publications

Our fellowship has a dedicated research track for interested fellows. Our research team through the CTRC has been successful getting our fellows first-author publications in high-impact journals. For the Class of 2026, Dr. Lefan has successfully authored a publication, "Evaluating Attitudes and Barriers to Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Cardiovascular Practice", in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

We also have very active research in nuclear cardiology and cutting-edge techniques including SPECT MBF, as well as hybrid SPECT imaging for cardiac amyloid.