Teresa De Marco

Dr. Teresa De Marco is medical director of heart transplantation at UCSF. She cares for patients who have advanced heart failure, undergo heart transplants, and need mechanical circulatory support. She also cares for patients with pulmonary hypertension. She has expertise in all methods of treating and managing advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.

In her research, De Marco evaluates state-of-the-art options for patients with advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. She has served as principal investigator in more than 45 clinical trials (studies using human volunteers to assess promising therapies).

After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, De Marco earned her medical degree at the University of California, Irvine. She completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF, followed by fellowship training in heart failure and cardiovascular disease at UCSF and in heart transplantation at the University of Utah.

De Marco received the UCSF Exceptional Physician Award in 2014 and was inducted into the UCSF Council of Master Clinicians in 2018. She has served on the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation's board of directors. She is a member of the scientific leadership council of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) and the oversight committee of PHA's accreditation program for Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers. She also serves on the executive committee for Women in Advanced Heart Failure, Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Interdisciplinary Network Community. She holds the UCSF R.H. and Jane G. Logan Endowed Chair in Cardiology. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America.