Abbreviation | HFSA |
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Formation | 1995 |
Purpose | To reduce the burden of heart failure |
President | Randall C. Starling (2018) |
The Heart Failure Society of America is an American organization of heart failure experts who have an interest in heart function and heart failure. Founded in 1995, [1] it provides a forum for experts and patients with the aim of reducing the burden of heart failure. [2] It has produced advice on categorizing heart failure [3] and it produces guidelines including the 2010 comprehensive heart failure practice guidelines when Douglas L. Mann was served as the president [4] and the 2013 Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure. [5] In 2018, a forum was created with people of various stages of advanced heart failure and specialists in cardiology. [6] Past presidents have included Mandeep R. Mehra, who took up the position in 2016. [7]