Dr. Joyce Wald DO, FACC

Dr. Wald is a graduate of Gettysburg College with a bachelor of arts degree. She then went on to graduate medical school from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and then completed her medicine residency and advanced Heart failure and cardiology fellowship at Temple University Hospital. She is boarded in internal medicine, cardiology and advanced heart failure/mechanical circulatory support. She is now a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and is the Director of Practice Development for the Heart failure,Transplant and MCS Programs. Further, she is now the Interim Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program here at Penn and has led the efforts to build the Shock Team. Also as the physician lead for the heart failure floor (CICU) Unit Based Clinical Leadership Program, her team has spearheaded processes to decrease readmission rates, improve quality of care and improve transitions in care of patients leaving the hospital.