Kiran Khush

Biography
Dr. Kiran Kaur Khush is a board-certified, fellowship-trained heart failure cardiologist at Stanford Health Care. Dr. Khush is also a professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Khush specializes in caring for patients with advanced heart failure and those needing a heart transplant or mechanical circulatory support. She is dedicated to delivering patient-centered, compassionate care and improving quality of life for people with heart failure. Dr. Khush’s research interests include developing evidence-based guidelines for evaluating and accepting donor hearts for transplantation. She also studies novel ways to monitor for and prevent early and long-term complications after heart transplantation. Dr. Khush has coauthored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Science Translational Medicine, and The Lancet. She has also presented to her peers at international and national meetings, including annual sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and the American Society of Transplantation. Throughout her career, Dr. Khush has been an active member of the ISHLT and has served on many of the organization’s committees.