MaryjaneA.FarrMDMSc

Summary

• Maryjane Farr joined UT Southwestern Medical Center in September 2021 as Professor of Medicine and Section Chief of Heart Failure, VAD and Transplant. Previously she was the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Adult Heart Transplant Program at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
  
  Dr. Farr is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University (BA’89), Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, AOA (’98) and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health (MSc’12). Dr. Farr was the Director of Clinical Trials in Heart Failure and Transplant at Columbia from 2007-12, received an NIH training grant for her master’s degree (2010-12), and was awarded the Shorin-Silverstein Research in Transplantation Award (at Columbia) for 2012-14.
  
  Dr. Farr directed the Adult Heart Transplant Program at Columbia for 6 years, and she has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the field of heart failure, VAD or transplant. She has participated in scholarly work and education with the ACC, AHA, HFSA, ISHLT and AST. She has been an active member and leader in UNOS/OPTN serving three years on the Thoracic Committee including Heart Subcommittee Chair, two years on the Membership and Professional Standards Committee, two years as region 9 Associate Councilor and was recently appointed to the UNOS/OPTN Board of Directors.
  She is an Associate Editor of Transplantation and Content Editor for Circulation.
  
  Her key areas of interest are in organ allocation, primary graft failure, minimization of immunosuppression and overall long-term survival of heart transplant recipients.