Daniel Burkhoff

Dr. Burkhoff is currently Director of Heart Failure, Hemodynamics, and MCS Research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation serves as a consultant to several heart-failure device companies and is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical School.

He is also the Founder of PVLoops, a cardiovascular educational software company. He is also the creator of Harvi, an interactive simulation-based mobile application available for the iPad for teaching and researching the aspects of ventricular mechanics and hemodynamics. After earning a B.S. degree from Cornell University in Applied and Engineering Physics, Dr. Burkhoff obtained Ph.D. and medical degrees from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed a fellowship in Cardiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1992, Dr. Burkhoff became an Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of Medicine and worked at Columbia University Medical Center where he ran the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory through 2003. Dr. Burkhoff then became the Director of the Jack Skirball Center for Cardiovascular Research of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation through 2005. In conjunction with and following this role, Dr. Burkhoff served as the Medical Director of several startup companies, including Impulse Dynamics, Inc. (2003-2014), a company focused on an implantable cardiac stimulator for the treatment of heart failure, Cheetah Medical, Inc. (2006-2012), an advanced hemodynamic monitoring technology company, as well as CircuLite (2009-2013), which he co-founded and which was acquired by HeartWare in 2013. He served as Vice President, Medical Science for Heartware until it was purchased in 2016 by Medtronic for $1.9 billion. Dr. Burkhoff’s expertise includes cardiovascular modeling and research in basic and clinical aspects of ventricular mechanics, cardiovascular monitoring, heart failure, device and pharmacologic treatments for heart failure, including left ventricular assist devices.