Research interests
Conducted an additional year of basic science research on allosteric regulation of G-protein-coupled receptors in the Lefkowitz lab at Duke during medical school[8]
Born and raised in Barbados
Enjoys running, hiking, exploring restaurants, attending shows, weekend trips, cooking, and spending time with family
Moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during junior year of high school
Paula Rambarat is a Duke cardiology fellow pursuing advanced training in heart failure and transplant cardiology. She completed undergraduate study at Duke, majoring in biology and minoring in Spanish, earned her medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital before returning to Duke for cardiovascular disease fellowship in 2022. During medical school, she received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellowship and conducted basic-science research on allosteric regulation of G-protein-coupled receptors in Robert Lefkowitz’s Duke laboratory. Rambarat has expressed interest in an academic cardiology career focused on heart failure, transplant, and pulmonary hypertension. Born and raised in Barbados, she moved to Chapel Hill during high school.
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Training includes Presentation: Longitudinal patterns of guideline-directed medical therapy use in severe heart failure with reduced ejection fraction after hospitalization: insights from the CONNECT-HF trial, Chief cardiology fellow for 2024-2025, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Duke, and Fellow, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship, plus 6 more records.
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Conducted an additional year of basic science research on allosteric regulation of G-protein-coupled receptors in the Lefkowitz lab at Duke during medical school[8]
Interest in better understanding pulmonary hypertension in the heart failure and transplant patient population[8]