Timothy Fendler, MD
- Cardiology
- Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology
- Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke's North Hospital
- Saint Luke's South Hospital
- Saint Luke's East Hospital
- Allen County Regional Hospital
- Anderson County Hospital
- Hedrick Medical Center
- Wright Memorial Hospital
- Saint Luke's Cushing Hospital
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Locations
Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants
Saint Luke's Heart Failure & Transplant Clinic
Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants
About Timothy Fendler, MD
Timothy Fendler, MD, completed his undergraduate studies at Saint Louis University, in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he graduated summa cum laude with degrees in English and secondary education. He then worked for several years as a teacher. He subsequently decided to attend medical school, graduating from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kansas.
He completed an internal medicine residency at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis and finished a cardiovascular disease fellowship with Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants in 2013. He has since competed cardiology, heart failure, and NIH/T32 fellowships. Dr. Fendler has published more than 20 manuscripts and is an emerging national leader in the field of palliative care and heart failure. He practices as a cardiologist at Saint Luke's East Hospital in Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Publications
Fendler TJ, Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Chan PS. Association Between Hospital Rates of Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Favorable Neurological Survival Among Survivors of InHospital Cardiac Arrest. Am Heart J. 2017 Nov;193:108-116.
Nassif ME, Spertus JA, Jones PG, Fendler TJ, Allen LA, Grady KL, Arnold SV. Changes in Disease-Specific Versus Generic Health Status Measures after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: Insights from INTERMACS. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2017 Nov;36(11): 12431249.
Wordingham SE, McIlvennan CK, Fendler TJ, Behnken AL, Dunlay SM, Kirkpatrick JN, Swetz KM. Palliative Care Clinicians Caring for Patients Before and After Mechanical Circulatory Support. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2017 Oct;54(4):601-608.
Fendler TJ, Nassif ME, Kennedy KF, Joseph SM, Silvestry SC, Ewald GA, LaRue SJ, Vader JM, Spertus JA, Arnold SV. Global Outcome in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Am J Cardiol. 2017 Apr 1;119(7)1069-1073.
Flint KM, Spertus JA, Tang F, Jones P, Fendler TJ, Allen LA. Association of Global and Disease-specific Health Status with Outcomes Following Continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2017 Mar 14;17(1):78.
Flint KM, Schmiege SJ, Allen LA, Fendler TJ, Rumsfeld J, Bekelman D. Health Status Trajectories Among Outpatients with Heart Failure. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2017 Feb;53(2):224-231.
Nassif ME, Fendler TJ, Spertus JA. Individualized Risk Estimates From Population Data: Should We Stop Creating Models and Start Engaging Patients? J Card Fail. 2017 Apr;23(4):278-279.
Kureshi F, Kennedy KF, Jones PG, Thomas RJ, Arnold SV, Sharma P, Fendler TJ, Buchanan DM, Qintar M, Ho PM, Nallamothu BK, Oldridge NB, Spertus JA. Association Between Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation and Health Status Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Cardiol. 2016 Dec 1;1(9):980-988.
Shafiq A, Jang JS, Kureshi F, Fendler TJ, Gosch K, Jones PG, Cohen DJ, Bach R, Spertus JA. Predicting Likelihood for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Finding the Best Model. Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Oct;102(4):1304-11.
Khazanie P, Hammill BG, Patel CB, Kiernan MS, Cooper LB, Arnold SV, Fendler TJ, Spertus JA, Curtis LH, Hernandez AF. Use of Heart Failure Medical Therapies Among Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Insights from INTERMACS. J Card Fail. 2016 Feb 15. Pii: S1071-9164(16)00064-6.
Arnold SV, Jones PG, Allen LA, Cohen DJ, Fendler TJ, Holtz JE, Aggarwal S, Spertus JA. Frequency of Poor Outcome (Death of Poor Quality of Life) After Left Ventricular Assist Device for Destination Therapy: Results from the INTERMACS Registry. Circ Heart Fail. 2016 Aug;9(8).
Gupta BP, Grady KL, Fendler TJ, Jones PG, Spertus JA. Variation in Quality of Life Data Collection Across INTERMACS Sites. J Card Fail. 2015 Nov 11. pii:S1071-9164(15)01175-6.
Jang JS, Spertus JA, Arnold SV, Shafiq A, Grodzinsky A, Fendler TJ, Salisbury A, Tang F, McNulty EJ, Grantham JA, Cohen DJ, Amin AP. Impact of Multivessel Revascularization on Health Status Outcomes in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial and Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Nov 10;66(19): 2104-13.
Fendler TJ, Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Chen LM, Perman SM, Chan PS. Alignment of Do-NotResuscitate Status with Patients' Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After InHospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA. 2015 Sep 22-29;314(12):1264-71.
Fendler TJ, Swetz KM, Allen LA. Team-Based Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Heart Failure. Heart Fail Clin. 2015 Jul;11(3):479-98.
Jang JS, Buchanan DM, Gosch KL, Jones PG, Sharma PK, Shafiq A, Grodzinsky A, Fendler TJ, Graham G, Spertus JA. Association of Smoking Status with Health-related Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2015 May;8(5). pii: e002226.
Fendler TJ, Spertus JA, Gosch KL, Jones PG, Bruce J, Nassif M, Flint K, Dunlay S, Allen LA, Arnold SV. Incidence and Predictors of Cognitive Decline in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2015 May;8(3):285-91.
Brown A, Fendler TJ, Goldberg A. Preventive Cardiology. In: Godara H, Hirbe A et al, eds. The Washington Manual of Therapeutics. 34th ed. China: LWW; 2013:76-111.
Education & Credentials
Training & Education
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Fellowship
University of Missouri - Kansas CityUniversity of MO-Kansas City School of Medicine
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Fellowship/Research
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
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Medical School
University of Kansas Medical Center
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Residency
Washington University, B-JC/SLCH Consortium
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- United Healthcare - United Health One
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- UnitedHealthcare - Dual Complete SNP PPO (MO and KS)
- UnitedHealthcare - Group Medicare Advantage PPO
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