Jacqueline DesJardin, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. DesJardin is a cardiologist who specializes in heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation, and pulmonary hypertension. She is clinically skilled in evaluating and treating patients with varying degrees of heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. As a clinician-researcher, Dr. DesJardin focuses her area of study on pulmonary hypertension and heart failure, with a specific focus on improving diagnosis and treatment of these conditions.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Advanced Heart Failure University of California 2024
• MAS Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of California 2024
• Fellowship Cardiology University of California 2023
• Residency Internal Medicine University of California 2020
• MD University of California 2017

Publications (28)

Top publication keywords:
Health Services MisuseStereotypingVascular ResistancePregnancy Complications, CardiovascularHeart Valve DiseasesPulmonary ArterySuperior ColliculiHypertension, PulmonaryAbruptio PlacentaeRegistriesUltrasonography, DopplerHypertension, PortalLeadershipVentricular Dysfunction, LeftHeart Failure

• Evaluating Pregnancy Safety During Cardiology Training.
  JAMA cardiology 2024 Haghighat L, Kalantarian S, DesJardin JT, Pellegrini CN
• Plasma Proteomics Identifies B2M as a Regulator of Pulmonary Hypertension in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction.
  Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2024 Jheng JR, DesJardin JT, Chen YY, Huot JR, Bai Y, Cook T, Hibbard LM, Rupp JM, Fisher A, Zhang Y, Duarte JD, Desai AA, Machado RF, Simon MA, Lai YC
• Investigating the "sex paradox" in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Results from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry (PHAR).
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2024 DesJardin JT, Kime N, Kolaitis NA, Kronmal RA, Lammi MR, Mathai SC, Ventetuolo CE, De Marco T, PHAR Investigators
• Reproductive Care in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
  Journal of cardiac failure 2023 Krishnan M, Desjardin JT, Vaidya A, DE Marco T
• Dietary Sodium Restriction in Patients with Heart Failure.
  The New England journal of medicine 2023 Chang LL, DesJardin JT, Albert MA, Ezekowitz J, Yusuf S

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• Gender Disparities in Critical Care Procedure Training of Internal Medicine Residents.
  ATS scholar 2023 Olson EM, Sanborn DM, Dyster TG, Kelm DJ, Murray SG, Santhosh L, DesJardin JT
• Echocardiographic estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance in advanced lung disease.
  Pulmonary circulation 2023 DesJardin JT, Svetlichnaya Y, Kolaitis NA, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Schiller NB, Zier LS, Singer JP, De Marco T
• Sex Differences and Similarities in Valvular Heart Disease.
  Circulation research 2022 DesJardin JT, Chikwe J, Hahn RT, Hung JW, Delling FN
• Inotropic therapies in heart failure and cardiogenic shock: an educational review.
  European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care 2021 DesJardin JT, Teerlink JR
• Weathering the perfect storm: management of heart failure in patients with substance use disorders.
  Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2021 DesJardin J, Leyde S, Davis J
• Time to End "Manels" in Clinical Trial Leadership.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Wang TY, DesJardin JT
• Placental Abruption as a Risk Factor for Heart Failure.
  The American journal of cardiology 2020 DesJardin JT, Healy MJ, Nah G, Vittinghoff E, Agarwal A, Marcus GM, Velez JMG, Tseng ZH, Parikh NI
• Age-related differences in hemodynamics and functional status in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Baseline results from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2020 DesJardin JT, Kolaitis NA, Kime N, Kronmal RA, Benza RL, Elwing JM, Lammi MR, McConnell JW, Presberg KW, Sager JS, Shlobin OA, De Marco T, PHAR Investigators
• Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Doppler Envelope Notching Predicts Pulmonary Hypertension and Outcomes in Lung Transplant Candidates.
  The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2020 J.T. DesJardin, Y. Svetlichnaya, N.A. Kolaitis, J.P. Singer, S.R. Hayes, J. Kukreja, T. De Marco
• Noninvasive estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance improves portopulmonary hypertension screening in liver transplant candidates.
  Clinical transplantation 2019 DesJardin JT, Manicardi M, Svetlichnaya Y, Kolaitis NA, Papolos AI, Selby VN, Zier LS, Klein L, Aras MA, Yao FY, Roberts JP, De Marco T
• Successful Use of Pulmonary Vasodilators in Acute Chest Syndrome Complicated by Persistent Right Ventricular Failure.
  Case reports in cardiology 2019 DesJardin JT, Zier LS
• Emerging value of multigene panels for germline testing in patients with neuroendocrine tumors.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2018 Julia Whitman, Brandon Shih, Amie Blanco, Salina Chan, Alan Paciorek, Jacqueline Desjardin, Mallika Sachdev Dhawan, Li Zhang, Emily Bergsland
• A Near-Peer Point-of-Care Ultrasound Elective for Medical Students: Impact on Anatomy Knowledge, Perceptions about Ultrasound, and Self-Reported Skill Level
  Academic Radiology 2017 DesJardin JT, Ricceri SK, Brown SD, Webb EM, Naeger DM, Teismann NA.
• A Near-peer Point-of-care Ultrasound Elective for Medical Students: Impact on Anatomy Knowledge, Perceptions About Ultrasound, and Self-reported Skill Level.
  Academic Radiology 2017 Jacqueline T. DesJardin, Santo K. Ricceri, Stephen D. Brown, Emily M. Webb, David M. Naeger, Nathan A. Teismann
• Effects of gene penetrance on adherence to breast cancer screening recommendations (BCSR) among high-risk women.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2017 Jacqueline Talea Desjardin, Mallika Sachdev Dhawan, Amie Blanco, Pamela N. Munster
• Amygdala selectively modulates defensive responses evoked from the superior colliculus in non-human primates.
  Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2016 Forcelli PA, DesJardin JT, West EA, Holmes AL, Elorette C, Wellman LL, Malkova L
• Memory loss in a nonnavigational spatial task after hippocampal inactivation in monkeys.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014 Forcelli PA, Palchik G, Leath T, DesJardin JT, Gale K, Malkova L
• Searching for Alternatively Spliced Variants of Phospholipase Domain-Containing 2 (Pnpla2), a Novel Gene in the Retina.
  Journal of clinical & experimental ophthalmology 2013 Desjardin JT, Becerra SP, Subramanian P
• Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) prevents retinal cell death via PEDF Receptor (PEDF-R): identification of a functional ligand binding site.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2013 Subramanian P, Locatelli-Hoops S, Kenealey J, DesJardin J, Notari L, Becerra SP
• Analyses of Patatin-like Phospholipase Domain-containing 2 (PNPLA2) Transcripts: Discrepancies between Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) and Experimental Data.
  The FASEB Journal 2013 Jacqueline Talea DesJardin, Luigi Notari, S. Patricia Becerra, Preeti Subramanian
• Defense-like behaviors evoked by pharmacological disinhibition of the superior colliculus in the primate.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013 DesJardin JT, Holmes AL, Forcelli PA, Cole CE, Gale JT, Wellman LL, Gale K, Malkova L
• Superior colliculus mediates cervical dystonia evoked by inhibition of the substantia nigra pars reticulata.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012 Holmes AL, Forcelli PA, DesJardin JT, Decker AL, Teferra M, West EA, Malkova L, Gale K
• Transient inactivation of orbitofrontal cortex blocks reinforcer devaluation in macaques.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011 West EA, DesJardin JT, Gale K, Malkova L