Marc Simon MD

Dr. Marc Simon is the Edward Fein and Pearl Landrith Professor of Cardiology, Director of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and the UCSF Pulmonary Hypertension Center of Comprehensive Care, and Program Director of the UCSF Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellowship. Dr. Simon has a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, MD from the University of Maryland, and a MS in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado, then in cardiology as well as advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh for 14 years prior to moving to UCSF in 2021. Dr. Simon’s research has focused on several central themes: 1) translational studies of the right ventricular (RV) adaptation and eventual failure in pulmonary hypertension (PH); 2) extension of studies of the RV to heart failure, cardiomyopathies, and mechanical support; 3) early phase clinical trial design and execution in pulmonary hypertension and heart failure (bench to bedside; first in disease trials). Dr. Simon has received research support from NIH, NSF, AHA, and several local foundations. He has mentored over 40 trainees at all levels of training. Dr. Simon is a guest editor and former senior associate editor for the Journal of the American Heart Association. He is on the editorial board and has been a guest editor of Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension. Dr. Simon has been an ad hoc member of multiple grant review panels for the NIH and American Heart Association. He currently serves as the chair of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Interdisciplinary Network of the International Society of Heart & Lung Transplantation.