Transforming Heart Failure Care—from the Bedside to the Health System.

Dr. Burhan Mohamedali is Director of the Congestive Heart Failure Program at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center and Director of the CHF Program & Research at the Cardiovascular Institute of San Diego (CVISD), where he leads clinical care, program development, and research initiatives in advanced heart failure. He holds an affiliate faculty appointment at UC San Diego.

Prior to relocating to San Diego, Dr. Mohamedali led the heart transplant program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, gaining deep experience in advanced heart failure and transplantation within a major academic medical center. Since then, he has continued to lead heart failure and transplant programs across both academic and private practice settings, giving him a broad perspective on how CHF care can be delivered effectively across different institutional models. He maintains active industry collaborations spanning gene and cell therapy, precision medicine, and device-based therapeutics, keeping his practice at the forefront of emerging treatment modalities.

His particular area of focus is the design and implementation of heart failure programs and systems of care; building the infrastructure, protocols, and clinical pathways that allow hospital systems to deliver high quality CHF management from the ground up. This work is especially oriented toward resource limited environments, where he applies his experience to strengthen care delivery in settings that often face the greatest systemic challenges.

Dr. Mohamedali has published more than 25 peer-reviewed papers, contributed a book chapter on cardio-nephrology, and lectured internationally across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa.