Gavin W. Hickey, MD, is an advanced heart failure and transplant, pulmonary hypertension cardiologist and is board-certified in cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure and transplant, and echocardiography by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Society of Echocardiography.

Dr. Hickey is Medical Director of the Ventricular Assist Device Program, Program Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, Associate Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Fellowship, Chair of the Cardiogenic Shock Committee, and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by his Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, and Pulmonary Hypertension fellowships at UPMC.

Dr. Hickey joined the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute in 2015. His clinical interests include heart failure, heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support (including ventricular assist devices), and cardiogenic shock. He has numerous publications and has presented at national meetings for heart failure. He is a member of the American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, and International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant.

Dr. Hickey lives in Murrysville, PA with his wife and three children and continues to play and coach soccer.