Medicine Grand Rounds, Brian C. Jensen “Cardio-Oncology: What? Why? Who?”

Dr. Jensen is a physician-scientist with a clinical and investigative focus on heart failure. He has clinical certification in Advanced Heart Failure/Transplantation and spends three months of the year as an attending physician on the UNC Heart Failure/Transplant/LVAD inpatient service. He also staffs the UNC Cardio-oncology clinic with a particular interest in optimizing cardiovascular health in patients with cancer. His laboratory uses mouse and cell culture models to study cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure, and the molecular response to myocardial injury.

Dr. Jensen’s research interests include heart failure, cardiac hypertrophy myocardial biology, adrenergic receptor biology, and chemotherapeutic cardiotoxicity. His clinical interests include advanced heart failure, transplant, and LVAD.