Introducing the new co-hosts of the Heart Failure Beat: Michael Beasley, MD and Priya Umapathi, MD.
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Didactic MD 1125: Homeostasis
LecturerLecture Setting2/1/2022 - PresentForGraduate11 Average Instructional Hours Per YearHomeostasis is one of the fundamental properties of any living organism. The heart, lungs, and kidneys work in concert to provide oxygen to and remove toxins from our cells, and they do so continuously from our first breath to our last. The goal therefore of the Homeostasis course is to elucidate the complex biological communication and feedback, mediated via mechanical, soluble and cellular mechanisms, between the heart, the lungs, and the kidneys. Although crosstalk between these organ systems is essential to maintain body homeostasis, pathological states in one or more organs can lead to functional and structural dysfunction in the other organs.</p> <p>Homeostasis is roughly divided into thirds, with the first portion focused on cardiology, the second on pulmonology, and the third on nephrology. However, content is integrated throughout the course where appropriate; for example, renal physiology and regulation of blood pressure is introduced in the first few weeks given relevance to cardiovascular content.
Clinical MD 1300: Clinical Skills
Supervising FacultyOutpatient Clinical Setting9/1/2020 - PresentForGraduate80 Average Instructional Hours Per YearThe Clinical Skills (CS) Course spans the first eighteen months of school for all medical students. Students begin to develop and refine their clinical skills, the essential elements of “doctoring” that physicians use during patient encounters. In CS, students learn to communicate with patients, families, and other members of the care team; examine patients; develop clinical reasoning skills; and understand the important role of a student-doctor in a patient’s care. Students are also introduced to point-of-care ultrasound. Throughout CS, emphasis is placed on taking a patient-centered approach to care. Students gain more experience with skills taught in CS through direct patient contact in the Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) and the Medical Coaching Experience (MCE). The Clinical Skills Program continues through the four-year curriculum with more advanced topics during the clerkship and elective years.
Mentoring
Martina Wong
PA Student2024 - PresentRamya Sampath, MD
Internal medical resident2023 - PresentWafa Nabi, MD
Internal medicine resident2021 - 2023
Clinical Care
Overview
Michael Harry Beasley, MD, is a cardiologist who specializes in advanced heart failure and heart transplantation. He cares for patients both in the hospital in New Haven, as well as in clinics at Yale Medicine offices in New Haven and Norwich.
“My passion lies in clinical care, so being able to deliver high-level care to my patients brings me joy,” Dr. Beasley says. “I genuinely care about the patients I serve, and I do my best to understand each one as a whole person. I make every effort to be completely present both mentally and emotionally during the time I spend with them.”
Heart transplantation is changing, and Dr. Beasley is excited about the future for several reasons. These include the availability of better pharmaceuticals for transplant patients, as well as the work being put toward making durable ventricular assist devices (VADs), or heart pumps, more tolerable for patients with less associated risk.
Most patients who need advanced heart failure therapies do much better when they are evaluated early—prior to the onset of critical illness or end-organ dysfunction, says Dr. Beasley. “Therefore, we try to anticipate which patients may need such options even if it’s years in the future, and then we prepare so that they can have the best possible outcome when their day for heart transplant or VAD implantation arrives.” For that reason, he encourages early referrals from cardiologists and early self-referrals from patients themselves.
Yale Medicine’s Heart Transplant and Left Ventricular Assist Device Program is one of the most rapidly expanding programs of its kind in the country. It is one of a limited number of programs that will push the envelope to utilize donor hearts that many other programs reject, optimizing those organs so that more sick patients who are eligible may be able to receive one. “At Yale, we are proud that we offer these therapies to patients who may be turned away at other centers and are happy to see that their outcomes have been terrific,” Dr. Beasley says.
Clinical Specialties
Heart Failure; Cardiovascular Medicine
Fact Sheets
Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
Learn More on Yale MedicineHypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Board Certifications
Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2024
Cardiovascular Disease
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2022
Internal Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2016
Yale Medicine News
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
Research
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Medical Research Interests
Education, Medical; Global Health; Heart Failure; Palliative Care
News & Links
News
- March 25, 2025
Palliative Care Clinic Offers Supportive Care for Patients With End-Stage Heart Failure
- August 12, 2024
Heart Failure in Young Adults
- July 24, 2024
Yale Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Promotions and Appointments (July 2024)
- July 10, 2023
Podcast explores the evidence supporting coronary revascularization in patients with ischemic heart failure
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Cardiovascular Medicine
79 Wawecus Street, Suite 106
Norwich, CT 06360
United States
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