The Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal extends a warm thanks to Jerry D. Estep, M.D., for his role as guest editor of this special issue on amyloidoses. Board certified in cardiovascular disease with a subspecialty certification in echocardiography and advanced heart failure/transplant cardiology, Estep serves as medical director of the Heart Transplant and LVAD Program at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
As a member of the center’s heart failure program, Estep is actively involved in several multicenter clinical trials studying novel treatments for patients with decompensated heart failure. He has also published articles on heart failure research, including echocardiographic evaluation of hemodynamics in patients with decompensated systolic heart failure and the role of multimodality cardiac imaging in the transplanted patient and in patients supported by LVADs.
Estep received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and went on to complete his residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas before returning to Baylor to complete a cardiology fellowship. He serves as a peer review editor for several journals including JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging and the Journal of Cardiac Failure and he has received numerous awards, including “Most Outstanding Clinical Cardiology Fellow” from Baylor. Estep is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Heart Association, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.