Kay Everett, MD, PhD

Contact Info

• USF Health Heart Institute
  560 Channelside Dr
  Tampa FL 33602
• Academic Email: kayeverett@usf.edu
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Education

Biography

Dr. Kay Everett, MD, PhD is a physician and engineer with expertise in cardiovascular hemodynamics of mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Everett is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering at the USF College of Engineering and Attending Cardiologist in the Coronary Care Unit at USF Health and Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Everett is the Director of the Cardiovascular Hemodynamics and Devices Laboratory at the USF Heart Institute and Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS). Dr. Everett’s work on ventricular unloading in acute myocardial infarction has been recognized with eight early career and abstract presentation awards at national and international scientific conferences. Dr. Everett's research has been funded by the NIH, NSF, Harvard-MIT, Tufts Medical Center, University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Everett’s current work examining ventricular and vascular hemodynamics of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) was recently awarded a NIH K08 award. Dr. Everett’s engineering background includes a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and PhD in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). After graduate school, Dr. Everett completed her MD also in HST and clinical training including Internal Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on the ABIM Physician-Scientist Training Pathway (PTSP). Outside of the clinic and laboratory, Dr. Everett has a longstanding passion for mentorship, including the advancement of women in medicine, STEM, cardiology and physician-scientists.

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs

• Cardiovascular Sciences
• Biomedical Engineering & Nanomedicine

Research Interests

• The central focus of Dr. Everett's Laboratory is to study and translate novel metrics of cardiovascular biomechanics, quantitative hemodynamics and myocardial injury into clinically relevant approaches for patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction and heart failure requiring acute mechanical circulatory support.
• Central areas of focus of the Laboratory include:
• 1) Clinical biomechanical phenotyping
• 2) Ventricular-vascular structural mechanical and fluid dynamic modeling
• 3) Preclinical bench top and in vivo device evaluation

Memberships

• Member (American College of Cardiology (ACC), 2018 - Present)
• Member (American Heart Association (AHA), 2023 - Present)
• Member (American Society for Artificial Organs (ASAIO), 2022 - Present)
• Member (International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), 2025 - Present)

Recent Publications

• Complete List of Published Work in My Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/kay.everett.1/bibliography/public/