Mastering the Art of Patient Care (PDF)

Michelle Kittleson is Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, Director of Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, and Director of Heart Failure Research at the Smidt Heart Institute. She graduated from Harvard College and received her medical degree from Yale University. She completed residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins, where she also received a PhD in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Kittleson is an international expert in heart failure and transplantation. She is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, on Guideline Writing Committees for the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association, Co-Editor-in-Chief for the American College of Cardiology Heart Failure Self-Assessment Program, and on the Board of Directors for the Heart Failure Society of America.

Dr. Kittleson's essays have appeared in New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and JAMA Cardiology and her poems have been published in JAMA. Annals of Internal Medicine, and Pharos. She has created #kittlesonrules on Twitter, a compendium of tips on how to improve patient care from optimizing communication with patients and colleagues to optimizing medical education to learning from mistakes. These tips have garnered the strong support of over 30,000 followers.