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Associate Professor Varun Sundaram

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (United States of America)

Member of:

Heart Failure Association of the ESC

Dr Sundaram, MD, PhD, MSc is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and the Section Chief of Advanced Heart Failure at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine and cardiology in Cleveland before pursuing advanced clinical and research training in heart failure in London, UK. In 2020, he earned a PhD from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, followed by an MSc in Clinical Trials from the University of Oxford in 2023. An NIH-funded investigator, Dr. Sundaram leads a team of postdoctoral scholars and research fellows with a focus on heart failure epidemiology (leveraging EHR) and clinical trials. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow, and has received multiple accolades, including the Eric N. Prystowsky Early Career Research Award from the American Heart Rhythm Society in 2016

PRAISE-HFrEF: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonism in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and obesity

Event: Heart Failure 2025

Topic: Pharmacotherapy

Session: Hottest trials and trial updates (1)

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Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist in obese heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and type 2 diabetes mellitus

Event: Heart Failure 2024

Topic: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Session: Late breaking science: registries

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