Dr. Tedford is the section head of heart failure and medical director of cardiac transplant at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. He also established and directs the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship Program at MUSC. He is currently a Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and holds the Dr. Peter C. Gazes Endowed Chair in Heart Failure. Dr. Tedford is board certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, and has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Failure Society of America. Dr. Tedford is an internationally recognized clinical researcher and has published over 200 peer-reviewed original research manuscripts, invited expert reviews, editorials and book chapters. His research efforts are focused on hemodynamic assessment of right ventricle function and its interaction with the pulmonary circulation and left heart.