Dr. Pooja Prasad, MD
Not yet claimedCardiologist, Heart failure specialist · Physician (MD)
San Francisco, CA
Dr. Pooja Prasad is a heart doctor at UCSF Health in San Francisco. She cares for people with heart failure, including patients being considered for a heart transplant.
About Dr. Pooja Prasad, MD
Updated Sep 20, 2026 · next review Dec 19, 2026Dr. Pooja Prasad is a cardiologist at UCSF Health in San Francisco who focuses on advanced heart failure and heart transplant care. She sees patients at the Advanced Heart Failure clinic at 400 Parnassus Avenue and also works in the UCSF Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic.
She earned her medical degree at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 2017, completed internal medicine residency at UC Davis in 2020, a cardiovascular disease fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University in 2023, and an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship at UCSF in 2024. She holds a faculty title of HS Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Medicine.
Her research interests include heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, outcomes after transplant, and non-invasive ways to detect organ rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy. She has co-authored published papers on remote monitoring in heart failure and on primary care of adult heart transplant recipients. She is also one of the first fellowship coaches in a UCSF coaching program that began in 2025.
Open Payments records from 2021 to 2025 list $8,228.12 in industry payments to her across 38 records, with the largest amounts from Biotronik, Abbott Laboratories, and CVRx. Payments from device and drug makers are common and legal, and are reported publicly by Medicare.
- Advanced heart failure and transplant
- She cares for patients with advanced heart failure, people recovering from heart transplant, and people with pulmonary hypertension. ucsfhealth.org
- UCSF faculty appointment
- She is listed as an HS Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Medicine. medicine.ucsf.edu
- Training history
- MD from University of Rochester (2017), internal medicine residency at UC Davis (2020), cardiology fellowship at OHSU (2023), and advanced heart failure and transplant fellowship at UCSF (2024). ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu
- Pulmonary hypertension clinic
- She also provides care in the UCSF Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, having trained in pulmonary hypertension during her advanced heart failure fellowship. ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu
- Research focus
- Her listed research interests include HFpEF diagnosis and treatment, post-transplant outcomes, and non-invasive detection of rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy. ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu
- Published research
- She co-authored a 2024 review on remote monitoring in heart failure and a 2025 paper on primary care of adult heart transplant recipients. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Teaches fellows
- She serves as one of the inaugural fellowship coaches in a UCSF coaching program that started in 2025. ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu
- Hospital affiliation
- She is affiliated with UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. healthgrades.com
- Industry payments reported
- CMS Open Payments lists $8,228.12 across 38 records for 2021 to 2025, with the largest payers being Biotronik ($2,743.39), Abbott Laboratories ($1,831.85), and CVRx ($1,524.31). openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
- College background
- She earned bachelor's degrees from Wellesley College in biological sciences and in peace and justice studies, with a concentration in women's health. ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu
Worth knowing
- Board certifications in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology appear only in third-party directory listings and were not confirmed against the certifying board's own verification tool in this research. medifind.com
- The research for this profile was incomplete. A primary-source California Medical Board license check and a court-records search were not completed, and news and public-statement searches were only partly done. No problems were found, but that is not the same as a verified clear record. ucsfhealth.org
- No verified personal social media accounts were found. A LinkedIn profile listing UCSF Health could not be confirmed as belonging to her. ucsfhealth.org
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
$8,228
38 payments
| 2021 | $2,663 |
| 2022 | $81 |
| 2023 | $1,832 |
| 2024 | $1,595 |
| 2025 | $2,058 |
Top payers
- BIOTRONIK INC.$2,743
- Abbott Laboratories$1,832
- CVRx, Inc.$1,524
- Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1,341
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$469
Payment types
- Travel and Lodging$4,490
- Food and Beverage$2,199
- Consulting Fee$1,341
- Education$198
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.
Sources: ucsfhealth.org · ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu · medicine.ucsf.edu · profiles.ucsf.edu · heartfailurepatiented.ucsf.edu · ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu · ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu · medifind.com. Something wrong or out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
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Practice location
UCSF Health
400 Parnassus Ave Fl 5
San Francisco, CA 94143
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