Thomas P. Cappola AB, MD, ScM

Thomas Cappola is the William Smilow Professor and Chief of the Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. His research aims to uncover heart failure mechanisms in human subjects and to use these insights to improve treatment. He completed his Doctor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has established and leads a multicenter cohort study of advanced heart failure (Penn Heart Failure Study, PHFS), co-loads a multicenter consortium for human myocardial transcriptomics and systems genetics (Myocardial Applied Genomics Network, MAGNet), and serves as a Principal Investigator on the NHLBI Heart Failure Clinical Research Network and is a contributing member of numerous international genomics consortia. Within the Cardiovascular Division, he has established collaborative leadership to create programs integrating science and clinical care and has used these as a platform for research and training. In his clinical role, he treats patients with advanced heart failure in the inpatient and outpatient heart failure/transplant service.