G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA is Professor of Medicine; Chief, Heart Failure Section, Division of Cardiology; Director, Clinical Research Unit, Duke Heart Center; Director of Heart Failure Research, Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina. He is a co-editor of Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease, 4th Edition.

Dr. Felker earned his medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine where he also acquired his MHS in clinical research. He served his residency and cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins, with a second fellowship in cardiology at the Duke University Medical Center. He specializes in heart failure, with a particular interest in advanced heart failure, as well as the overlap and interaction between heart failure and diabetes.

Dr. Felker has served as the associate editor of JACC’s Heart Failure and is published in over 200 peer-reviewed articles. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Robert M. Califf Award for Excellence in Clinical Research. He has had a leadership role in several national and international research trials and is the principal investigator for several NIH heart failure clinical trials.