Speaker:Javier Lopez, MD - Associate Professor and Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California DavisThemis Yiaslas, PsyD - Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UC Davis School of MedicineDescription:Our quality improvement project will create a pre-habilitation program for patients with advanced heart failure being considered for transplant; the new program will improve the pre-operative functional capacity of patients that are being evaluated for a heart transplant and their post-surgical recovery. The pre-habilitation program will be co-designed with patients, caregivers, and a multidisciplinary team of health-care providers. Our broader goal is to innovate on how heart transplant programs develop patient-informed models of care and to improve post-surgical outcomes that could support their ability to obtain and maintain accreditation.