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Kimberly Ann Parks

Kimberly Ann Parks DO

Cardiology, Internal Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Kimberly Parks focuses on the clinical care of patients with cardiomyopathy and heart failure and the management of patients who have or need heart transplantation.

Dr. Parks is a graduate of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and completed her residency and fellowship through Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed subspecialty training in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital where she currently practices with a focus on clinical care. She is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and is actively involved in teaching residents, fellows, and medical students. She is the Associate Director of the Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program at the MGH, which is an innovative, multidisciplinary program designed to optimize the care of patients with heart failure who have or may need implanted devices for heart failure.

She has been an active participant in medical organizations, previously serving on the governing council of the American Medical Association. She has received awards in teaching and for her leadership and has lectured nationally and internationally on heart failure and cardiac transplantation. Her interests are focused on clinical care of patients with heart failure and research has focused on the clinical use of novel and established implantable devices in the management of heart failure patients.