Michelle Kittleson
Michelle Maya Kittleson, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine, Director of Post Graduate Medical Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, and Director of Heart Failure Research at Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute.
Dr. Kittleson's research interests are in the triage of heart failure patients to advanced therapies and antibody sensitization in heart transplantation. She has an interest in medical narratives and poetry and has published work in JAMA Cardiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Kittleson earned her bachelor's degree in biochemical sciences at Harvard College. She earned her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. After completing her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, she went on to a fellowship in cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. While there, she earned a doctorate in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.