Eileen Hsich, MD

Dr. Eileen Hsich is the Medical Director for the Heart Transplant Program and a staff physician in the Section of Heart Failure and Transplantation Medicine of the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute. She specializes in heart failure in women, heart transplantation, and nuclear cardiology.

Dr. Hsich received her medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed her cardiology fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center (NEMC) in Boston. She did cardiovascular basic science research both at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Tufts- New England Medical Center where she received the National Research Service Award for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows. She was appointed to The Cleveland Clinic in 2004 after completing her clinical training in heart failure/ heart transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 2006, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Hsich's research interests center on sex differences in heart failure management and clinical outcome. She has also served as the co-principal investigator on multi-center clinical trials.