Ioana Dumitru, MD Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology in Brooksville, FL

Dr. Ioana Dumitru is a triple board-certified advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist and the medical director of the TGH Heart & Vascular Institute's Mechanical Circulatory Support Program. She provides world-class care to patients with complex cardiac conditions, cardiac transplant patients, and patients supported by mechanical cardiac support.

Before joining Tampa General, Dr. Dumitru served as founder and medical director of the Adult Cardiac Transplant, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy program at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla. She previously founded and served as the medical director of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Equipped with more than 25 years of experience in her field, Dr. Dumitru has guided future medical professionals throughout her career as an assistant, associate and currently professor of medicine and has received several awards for her clinical excellence and teaching efforts since relocating to the United States from her home country of Romania.

A fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Dumitru is credited with more than 100 presentations, publications in scholarly journals, book chapters, and abstracts in areas of her expertise. She has professional memberships with the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant.