Amanda Vest MBBS MPH is the Section Head of Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, and holder of the George M. & Linda H. Kaufman Endowed Chair. She
completed medical school at Imperial College, London, UK, followed by internal medicine and
chief residencies at Boston University Medical Center, and cardiology and advanced heart
failure and transplant cardiology fellowships at Cleveland Clinic. She spent a decade on staff at
Tufts Medical Center in Boston, including leadership of the Heart Transplant Program and
latterly the Advanced Heart Failure Program, and developed a Nutrition-Heart Failure research
team. Her research interests are based around the interactions between nutrition, metabolism
and body composition for patients with heart failure. Her prior research work was focused on the
relationship between obesity and heart disease, including the impact of bariatric surgery on
cardiovascular health. Her current work, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health,
investigates whether dietary protein supplementation can reverse skeletal muscle wasting, as
well as exploring the biological mechanisms that may contribute to cachexia development and
ultrasound as a technique to assess and monitor muscle wasting in the arms and legs. Her
clinical work focuses on patients with heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart
transplantation, as well as patients with cardiac sarcoidosis and other cardiomyopathies. She is
a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and medically treats obesity in patients
with heart failure. She returned to Cleveland Clinic in March 2024.