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Exciting opportunity to join a growing advanced heart failure and heart transplant program and become a part of a dynamic interdisciplinary team. The VAD coordinator, in collaboration with the physician, maintains primary outpatient management responsibilities for patient with Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)s including medication management, scheduling and coordination of appointments, monitoring device parameters, anticoagulation management, and for patients who are transplant candidates, waitlist management. Following a 4-month onboarding process, newly hired APPs will build toward the management of roughly 35 LVAD patients, coordinating outpatient care, addressing patient phone calls and portal messages, and seeing 3-5 patients a week in clinic. Further, the APP LVAD Coordinator will conduct LVAD device interrogations, RAMP studies in conjunction with transthoracic echocardiography or right heart catheterizations, and perform wound care/wound management for the driveline exit site. As an academic medical center, UVA possesses a rich culture of continual education and professional development that welcomes engaged learners.
