Biography

Robert Morlend, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a member of its Division of Cardiology. He specializes in the care of patients with advanced heart failure, including comprehensive medical management before and after heart transplantation or implantation of a mechanical assist device.

Originally from New Jersey, Dr. Morlend earned his medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Emory University; and a fellowship in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Prior to joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 2015, Dr. Morlend served as a heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Saint Barnabas Medical Center.

He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant by the American Board of Internal Medicine, with additional certifications from the National Board of Echocardiography and the American Society of Hypertension.  

Dr. Morlend’s research interests include hypercoagulability in the setting of ventricular assist devices, advanced heart failure, and cardiac transplantation.

He is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Texas Medical Association, and the Dallas County Medical Society.

 His interests outside of medicine include traveling (pandemic-permiting), and spending time with his family. 

Education

Medical School
Emory University School of Medicine (2006)
Internship
University of California, San Francisco (2007), Internal Medicine
Residency
University of California, San Francisco (2009), Internal Medicine
Fellowship
Emory University School of Medicine (2012), Cardiovascular Disease
Fellowship
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2013), Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology

Research Interest

  • Application of advanced heart failure therapies to patients with congenital heart disease
  • Cardiomyopathy and advanced heart failure
  • Diagnosis and management of secondary hypertension in patients with advanced heart failure and heart transplantation
  • Heart transplantation
  • Hypercoagulability in patients with advanced heart failure, ventricular assist devices and cardiac transplantation
  • Ventricular assist devices

Publications

Featured Publications LegendFeatured Publications

Identifying Discordance of Right- and Left-Ventricular Filling Pressures in Patients with Heart Failure by the Clinical Examination.
Pham D, Drazner MH, Ayers CR, Grodin JL, Hardin EA, Garg S, Mammen PPA, Amin A, Araj FG, Morlend RM, Thibodeau JT, Circ Heart Fail 2021 Sep
Saved by the VAC: Minimally Invasive Removal of a Surely Fatal Right Heart Thrombus in a Patient with Advanced Heart Failure.
Keeton J, Gonzalez PE, Cox J, Morlend RM, Amin AA, Mammen PPA, Huffman LC, Araj FG, Case Rep Cardiol 2020 2020 7579262
Leadless Pacemaker Implant After Heart Transplant.
Araj FG, Morlend RM, Daniels JD, Am J Cardiol 2019 08 124 3 455-456
Delayed febrile response with bloodstream infections in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices.
Wrobel CA, Drazner MH, Ayers CR, Pham DD, La Hoz RM, Grodin JL, Garg S, Mammen PPA, Morlend RM, Araj F, Amin AA, Cornwell WK, Thibodeau JT J. Investig. Med. 2019 Mar 67 3 653-658
Bendopnea and risk of adverse clinical outcomes in ambulatory patients with systolic heart failure.
Thibodeau JT, Jenny BE, Maduka JO, Divanji PH, Ayers CR, Araj F, Amin AA, Morlend RM, Mammen PP, Drazner MH Am. Heart J. 2017 Jan 183 102-107

Books

Featured Books Legend Featured Books

Malignancy After Transplant. In Contemporary Heart Transplantation

Cheeran, D., Morlend, Robert M., and Justin L Grodin (2020).

Honors & Awards

  • LEAD Program Graduate
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2016)
  • "Attending of the Year" Department of Medicine Residency Teaching Award
    Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ (2014)
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
    National Medical Honor Society (2005)
  • Gaston Service Award
    Emory University School of Medicine (2004)
  • High Departmental Honors in Neuroscience
    Brandeis University (2002)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship
    Brandeis University (2001)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

  • American College of Cardiology (2009)
  • Dallas County Medical Association (2015)
  • Heart Failure Society of America (2017)
  • Texas Medical Society (2015)