Susan M. Joseph, MD is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease, and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. She specializes in the treatment and management of patients with heart failure. Her areas of clinical interests include heart failure, heart transplant, and left ventricular assist device therapy. Her research interests include improving outcomes in patients with mechanical devices in heart failure, innovative device therapy in heart failure, hemodynamics and cardiogenic shock, and assessing frailty in heart failure populations.
Dr. Joseph studied medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri where she went on to complete fellowship training in Cardiology, and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, as well as serving there as Assistant Professor and Medical Director of the HFpEF clinic.
Dr Joseph has published extensively in leading journals as well as several book chapters. She has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure as well as Circulation HF.
Dr. Joseph currently serves as the Section Chief of Advanced Heart Failure at the University of Maryland.