Dr. Yaranov in his office in front of his framed diplomas, a blue stethoscope around his neck, smiling at the camera

The heartseveryone elsegave up on.

I am an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist. My patients arrive after everything simpler has been tried.

Follow the path

Trained where the hardest referrals end up.

Pick a building. Open the chapter.

A papercut skyline drawn along one ECG line: a Samara university tower, a graduation arch, an American hospital, and a building marked with a heart
A cream and blue university building with its name in Russian across the roofline

Samara State Medical University

Medical school, and the first failing hearts I could not look away from.

Two clinicians in scrub caps and gowns watching an angiogram on a large screen in a procedure room

United States

Advanced cardiovascular training. The machines, and the medicine behind them.

The Cleveland Clinic entrance corridor, glass walls on both sides and the name above the doorway

Cleveland Clinic

Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation.

Dr. Yaranov in a navy suit in front of his framed diplomas

Program building

Director roles, a national committee seat, and the work of building what was missing.

Dr. Yaranov in a surgical cap, protective glasses and a heart-print lead apron marked Diagnostic Cath Lab

The Clinician

  • Advanced Heart Failure
  • Heart Transplantation
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support
  • Cardiac Amyloidosis
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Cardiogenic Shock
Dr. Yaranov speaking at a wooden lectern with a microphone, an ATTR-CM slide on the screen behind him

The Educator

Teaching in clinic and online, reaching more than 650,000 people who meet heart failure on their phone months before an emergency room.

Dr. Yaranov in a white coat in the cath lab, looking up at a bank of monitors beside an angiography system

Building programs. Advancing care. Educating the world.

The mission is bigger than one clinic. It needs programs, and it needs teachers.

Roles that carry the standard.

Not honorary titles. Working roles, each one still on call.

Dr. Yaranov in a navy suit and tie, arms crossed, standing outdoors in front of a glass building

  1. Program Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support

    Building the team, the protocols, and the pathways that keep the sickest hearts supported.

  2. Director, Heart Transplantation Services

    Guiding candidacy, listing, and the years of care that follow a new heart.

  3. Director, Cardiac Amyloidosis Program

    Case review and follow-through built to catch this disease before it is mistaken for aging.

  4. Assistant Professor of Medicine

    Teaching the next generation of clinicians at the bedside and well beyond it.

  5. OPTN and UNOS, Region 11 leadership and National Heart Committee

    • Chair, Region 11 Heart Transplantation Review Board, UNOS.
    • Member, National UNOS Heart Transplantation Committee.
    • Member, OPTN Heart Committee Review Board Appeals Subcommittee.
Member of
  • ACC
  • HFSA
  • ISHLT
  • AHA

Enough about me. Look at the work.

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