Jane Wilcox, MD, MSc

Dr. Wilcox is the Chief of the Section of Heart Failure Treatment and Recovery, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also the Associate Director of the T1 Center for Cardiovascular Therapeutics in the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. Dr. Wilcox is board certified in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant. In addition to caring for patients with cardiomyopathy, advanced heart failure/transplant and mechanical assist devices (including durable LVADs and temporary support devices) on the inpatient service, Dr. Wilcox is the director of the Myocardial Recovery Clinic for patients with Heart Failure with recovered Ejection Fraction (HFrecEF). She also has expertise in muscular dystrophy associated cardiomyopathy and is an integral member of the multidisciplinary muscular dystrophy association (MDA) clinic at Northwestern. Dr. Wilcox’s research interests include characterization of the myocardial substrate among dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients as it relates to myocardial recovery, novel cardiac imaging in DCM, early-phase trials of new therapeutics for genetic cardiomyopathies, and improving patient/caregiver self-management of ventricular assist devices.