Amanda Ruth Vest MBBS, MPH

Dr. Amanda Vest is originally from the united kingdom and completed medical school and internship at imperial college, London, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, for internal medicine residency training in 2006. After 3 years of internal medicine residency at Boston University medical center and a chief resident year, she moved to Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, for specialty training in cardiology.

She completed an additional year of fellowship in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, and ventricular assist devices (VADs). Her research interests are based on the interactions between the heart muscle and metabolic dysfunction. Her earlier research work was focused on the relationship between obesity and heart disease, including the impact of bariatric surgery on heart health.

She is currently working with nutrition experts at tufts university to better understand changes in body composition, food intake, and physical activity that occur during heart failure. Clinically, she mostly sees patients with advanced heart failure and in particular, those who are being considered for or have received, heart transplantation. She serves as the medical director of the heart transplantation program at tufts medical center and co-director of the nutrition course for medical students at tufts university school of medicine.