Vishal Rao: documented history and research

About

Fellowship Alumni | Duke Department of Medicine

Vishal Narasinga Rao is a Duke faculty member whose work focuses on heart failure, digital tools for quality-of-care, hemodynamics, and cardiovascular and hepatic risk. He earned an M.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 2015 and an M.P.H. from UNC in 2014, completed Johns Hopkins’ Osler Medical Residency Training Program from 2015 to 2018, and pursued cardiovascular disease and research training at Duke from 2018 to 2022. He completed advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology training at Duke in 2022-2023. Since 2023, he has been Adjunct Assistant Professor in Duke’s Department of Medicine. His record includes CONNECT-HF research and a 2022 presentation on severe tricuspid regurgitation. In 2026, he participated in ACC podcasts on remote monitoring and heart-liver risk.

Research interests

Lead investigator of research on a digital application for heart failure quality-of-care metricsParticipated in research on the CONNECT-HF trial conducted between 2017 and 2020Presented CONNECT-HF data at the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) 2021 meeting in Denver, ColoradoPresented research on clinical outcomes among distinct groups of patients with severe tricuspid valve regurgitation

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Training

Training includes Participated in an ACC CardiaCast podcast on remote hemodynamic monitoring in heart failure management, Participated in an ACCEL Lite interview examining the interconnectedness of cardiovascular and hepatic risk, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at Duke University, School of Medicine, and DCRI fellow at Duke Clinical Research Institute, plus 8 more records.

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