Duvvuri joins the Baptist Heart Institute team
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 6, 2024 – The Baptist Heart Institute at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis recently welcomed Dr. Padmaraj Duvvuri to the Advanced Heart Failure Program.
Dr. Duvvuri earned his doctorate at Shri Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College in Yavatmal, India, and received his Master of Science in Clinical Research Organization and Management from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., a fellowship in general cardiology at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL and a fellowship in critical care medicine and advanced heart failure cardiology at Cleveland Clinic.
The Baptist Heart Institute at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis offers comprehensive heart services, including the only certified adult heart transplant and adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) programs in the Mid-South. Baptist also offers advanced cardiac care for patients through the Baptist Advanced Heart Failure Program. As a premier heart diagnostic, treatment and research facility, Baptist Heart Institute is the region’s largest and most comprehensive provider of mechanical and circulatory support devices and therapies. In 2022, Baptist became the first hospital in the state of Tennessee to use a Barostim implant to treat heart failure, and in 2023, Baptist was the first in the state to implant a cardiac contractility modulation device.
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