Josephine Harrington, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, as well as a faculty member of CPC Clinical Research. She holds board certifications in both Advanced Heart Failure and Obesity, as well as Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine.
Dr. Harrington earned her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School with a Clinical and Translational Research Track. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern. She served as a Cardiology Fellow at Duke University Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. While there she spent two years in a focused clinical trials research fellowship as a T32 scholar at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), during which time she received the Mario Family Foundation Award and was awarded the Richard A Harrington Excellence in Fellowship Award and the Joseph C Greenfield Award for excellence in research.
At the DCRI, she participated in multiple cardiovascular outcomes trials, including EMPACT-MI, HEART-FID, and OCEANIC-AF and served on the Clinical Events Committee adjudicating endpoints for cardiovascular outcomes trials. Dr. Harrington also led observational investigations in multiple datasets exploring the relationship between obesity, diabetes, and heart failure.