Dr. Amanda Vest, MBBS
Not yet claimedCardiologist, Heart failure specialist · Physician (MBBS / international)
Cleveland, OH
Dr. Amanda Vest is a heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic, where she leads the heart failure and transplantation section. She sees patients at the Main Campus.
About Dr. Amanda Vest, MBBS
Updated Sep 20, 2026 · next review Dec 19, 2026Dr. Amanda Vest is a heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic's main campus in Cleveland, Ohio. She is Section Head of Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology in the Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, part of the Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. She returned to Cleveland Clinic in March 2024.
She earned her medical degree (MBBS) at Imperial College School of Medicine in London and a Master of Public Health at Harvard. She did internal medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center, including a chief resident year, then a cardiology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic and an extra year of advanced heart failure and transplant training. Before returning to Cleveland, she spent about a decade at Tufts Medical Center, where she led the heart transplant program and later the advanced heart failure program, and started a nutrition-focused heart failure program.
Her listed clinical interests include heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction, cardiomyopathy, sarcoidosis, cardiogenic shock, obesity, and cardiac cachexia (severe weight and muscle loss from heart failure). She has a special focus on nutrition and obesity in heart failure, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
She has helped write national practice documents, including the 2022 ACC/AHA/HFSA heart failure guideline, and chaired the Heart Failure Society of America's 2025 annual meeting. Federal Open Payments records list $1,563.51 in industry payments to her across 16 records from 2021 to 2025. Payments from industry to doctors are common and legal; this amount is small.
- Heart failure section head
- She is Section Head of Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology at Cleveland Clinic and sees patients at the main campus. providers.clevelandclinic.org
- Board certification
- She is board certified in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, and is also listed under Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine. healthgrades.com
- National guideline author
- She was a co-author of the 2022 ACC/AHA/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure, serving as the Heart Failure Society of America's representative on the writing committee. professional.heart.org
- Obesity medicine credential
- By her own account she is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and she founded a nutrition-heart failure program at her prior hospital. hfsa.org
- Training and degrees
- Medical degree from Imperial College School of Medicine in London, earned with distinction, and an MPH from Harvard. consultqd.clevelandclinic.org
- Society leadership
- She chaired the Heart Failure Society of America's 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, the society's 30th anniversary meeting. prnewswire.com
- Research on nutrition in heart failure
- She was first author of a 2019 Heart Failure Society of America consensus statement on nutrition, obesity, and cachexia in heart failure patients. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Recent writing committees
- She served on the writing committees for a 2025 ACC scientific statement on managing obesity in adults with heart failure and a 2026 guideline on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome. jacc.org
- Fellow of three societies
- She is a Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology. consultqd.clevelandclinic.org
- Teaches fellows
- She is listed as faculty for Cleveland Clinic's Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology fellowship. my.clevelandclinic.org
Worth knowing
- CMS Open Payments records list $1,563.51 in industry payments to her across 16 records from 2021 to 2025. The largest payers were Abbott Laboratories ($729.24), Endotronix ($272.42), Impulse Dynamics ($157.86), scPharmaceuticals ($141.78), and Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals ($117.66). Such payments are common and legal, and this total is small. openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
- Some online directories still show an older practice address at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and list a Massachusetts license. Her current practice location is Cleveland Clinic main campus in Cleveland, Ohio. npino.com
- Her medical degree is an MBBS from the United Kingdom. Some U.S. directories display this as 'MD,' which can cause confusion when comparing listings. doximity.com
Industry payments (CMS Open Payments)
Open the CMS recordFederal law requires drug and device companies to report what they pay clinicians: meals, travel, speaking, consulting, and research. Payments are common and legal; the point is that you can see them.
2021 to 2025
$1,564
16 payments
| 2021 | $0 |
| 2022 | $30 |
| 2023 | $149 |
| 2024 | $629 |
| 2025 | $755 |
Top payers
- Abbott Laboratories$729
- ENDOTRONIX, INC.$272
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$158
- SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC.$142
- Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc.$118
Payment types
- Food and Beverage$1,564
A word of caution about these numbers
A payment does not mean your doctor is compromised or acting unethically. Most of these entries are drug samples left for patients, or lunch brought in for the office staff, and the amounts are usually small. Research funding and speaking at medical meetings are also normal parts of a clinical career.
As a rough guide, a total under $15,000 a year is usually not a concern. Much larger sums, especially from one company whose product your doctor recommends to you, are worth asking about. You are allowed to ask.
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Practice location
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
9500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44195
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