Dr. Jennifer Thibodeau is a Professor of Internal Medicine who serves as the Medical Director of Heart Failure and Medical Director of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, her fellowships in Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and her Masters in Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She has a clinical expertise in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and ventricular assist devices and is particularly interested in hemodynamic assessments of symptoms of heart failure and physical examination findings of heart failure.  She is an established clinical researcher, including studies describing a new symptom of heart failure, bendopnea, or shortness of breath when bending forward.  For this research, she was recognized as a finalist for the American Heart Association’s Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award  in 2012, and awarded the Young Author Achievement Award in 2014 by the American College of Cardiology.