Dr. Larry A. Allen is a Professor of Medicine, Division Head for Cardiology (2022-), and an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine at CU Anschutz. Dr. Allen’s research interests include improving equitable delivery of evidence-based heart failure treatments, anticipating progression into Stage D heart failure, and helping end-stage patients make tough choices regarding invasive therapies and palliative options. Dr. Allen was the principal investigator for the DECIDE-LVAD trial and the EPIC-HF trial; he now leads the PCORI-funded I-I-CAPTAIN multicenter trial on patient engagement in heart failure medication prescribing. He is immediate-Past Chair for the Clinical Cardiology Council of the American Heart Association (2023-2025), Research and Publications Advisor for the Heart Failure Systems of Care Advisory Group supporting the Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure program, and an Associate Editor at Circulation: Heart Failure. Meanwhile, Dr. Allen keeps himself clinically grounded by regularly seeing patients with heart failure, LVADs, and transplants, and have been voted every year since 2012 as one of Denver’s “Top Doctors” in 5280 Magazine.

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