Andrea Wallace
Olive Branch
Summary
Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in cardiology with expertise in heart failure management, genetic cardiomyopathies, and post-transplant care. Proven track record in multidisciplinary collaboration and program development within a multi-hospital system. Strong communicator focused on enhancing patient outcomes and decision-making processes. Background as a registered nurse with leadership experience in long-term care and cardiovascular critical care settings.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Advanced Heart Failure, MCS, and Transplant Cardiology Nurse Practitioner
Stern Cardiovascular Institute / Baptist Memorial Hospital
Memphis
07.2023 - Current
- Advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and transplant nurse practitioner working in clinic and hospital
- Evaluation, staging and managing acute and chronic heart failure with GDMT optimization, remote monitoring, neuromodulation program, genetic cardiomyopathies, durable mechanical devices, and transplant
- Lead outreach HF NP working 5 clinics to expand advanced heart failure care to rural communities in TN, MS, and AR. Facilitated a shared cared model with partnerships among multiple hospital systems
- NP representative for Baptist Memorial Heart Failure Committee facilitating system policy and infrastructure
Family Nurse Practitioner, Cardiology/ Heart Failure/Genetic cardiomyopathies
Sutherland Cardiology
Germantown
03.2022 - Current
- Worked in collaboration with a multidisciplinary healthcare team in providing quality heart failure care: GDMT, devices, and follow up.
- Managed heart failure evaluations, disease optimization, GDMT, and devices for chronic heart failure.
- Managed referrals to advanced heart failure teams for MCS and transplant evaluations.
- Performed tele-GDMT optimization.
- Participated in quality improvement initiatives to optimize service delivery processes, such as Getting With the Guidelines accreditation.
Patient Care Coordinator, Registered Nurse, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare
Germantown
10.2015 - 03.2022
- Plans, integrates, and maintains quality care systems and standards, which result in improving medical protocols, guidelines, patient outcomes, and nightly operations.
- Oversees patient admission and discharges, coordinating RN assignments, including patient management and care coordination for CVICU.
- Completes comprehensive assessments to determine needs, documents medical information, and communicates findings efficiently with healthcare team to ensure continuum of care.
- Boasts strong leadership and guidance to staff. Assists in hiring, training, educating, and performance reviews for RNs and medical assistants.
- Establishes and maintains positive relationships with physicians, hospital staff, patients, and families.
- Specialized training in ECMO, Impella, IABP, CRRT
- Medical Response Team Member
- Directs patient care for critical care patients requiring vasoactive medications, ventilator support, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, IABP, CRRT, ECMO, Impella
Registered Nurse, Long-term Acute Care Unit
Baptist Memorial Hospital
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Worked with a multidisciplinary team as a registered nurse ensuring rehabilitative care in a long-term acute care hospital (LTACH).
- Reviewed physician orders and participated in medication management and treatments to optimize patient outcomes.
- Performed assessments, collaborated, and communicated patient progress and issues with families, physicians and other agencies.
- Managed ventilator weaning and wound management
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Baptist DeSoto
06.2015 - 10.2015
- Management of patients in the intensive care unit
LPN, Director of Nursing Services
Applegrove Alzheimer’s and Dementia Facility
Memphis
02.2009 - 07.2014
- Supervised daily nursing activities and general operations while delivering exceptional care and building solid nursing teams.
- Applied clinical judgment and comprehensive knowledge of facility policies to assist floor nurses with patient care decisions and report findings to medical providers.
- Supervised hiring, training, performance reviews of nursing staff
- Developed and arranged continuing education opportunities for all staff to increase knowledge and skills
Education
Master of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN08.2021
Bachelor of Science - Registered Nurse
Christian Brothers University
Memphis, TN05.2016
Associate of Science of Nursing - Registered Nurse
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Memphis, TN05.2014
Licensed Practical Nursing -
Bevill State Community College
Hamilton, AL08.2007
Skills
- Cardiology and Advanced Heart Clinic and telemanagement
- Acute inpatient cardiology, advanced heart failure: peri- and post-op acute heart failure, MCS, and transplant management, including step-down and ICU
- Advanced device management: Impella, IABP, ECMO, CRRT
- Heart failure device clinic: Cardiomems, CCM, LVAD
- Genetic cardiomyopathies clinic
- Palliative care management
- Lead APP and role development: strong leadership, effective communication, dependability, fast learning, critical thinking, problem solving and & implementation
References
- Dmitry Yaranov, MD, Stern Cardiovascular Institute, 901-271-1000, 901-237-7716, Dmitry.yaranov@sterncardio.com
- Maureen Smithers, MD FAAC, Sutherland Cardiology Clinic, Specialties Physicians Group, 901-763-0200, 901-483-2125, Maureen.smithers@mlh.org
- Qiuhua Zhang, PA-C, Sutherland Cardiology Clinic, Heart Failure/Genetic Cardiomyopathy, 901-763-0200, 901-570-0983, qiuhua.zhang@mlg.org
- Sarah Braha, APN, FNP-C, Sutherland Cardiology, General Cardiology/Heart Failure, 901-763-0200, 901-710-3768, sarah.braha@mlh.org
Volunteer Experience
- Memphis Rox, Volunteer, current
- Caritas Village, Volunteer- RN, 2015, 2016
- Dorothy Place Adult Day Care, Volunteer, 2015
- Catholic Charities, Volunteer, 2016
Certifications And Memberships
- HFSA Heart Failure Certification HF-CERT, 05/01/24
- Tennessee Advanced Practice Registered Nurse License, 30782
- Mississippi Advanced Practice Registered Nurse License
- Mississippi licensed (compact) Registered Nurse License, 898241
- Arkansas Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, 231316
- American Heart Association BLS, 07/2026
- American Heart Association ACLS, 07/2026
- American Association of Heart Failure Nurses
- Heart Failure Society of America
- American College of Cardiology
- International Transplant Nurses Society
- International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation
Research
- HEKA Heart: APP tele GDMT optimization, lead APP
- DepleTTr Clinical Trial for Cardiac Amyloidosis Sub Investigator
- Team HF Clinical Trial for Heart Failure Management with Cardiomems and Heart Mate 3 LVAD Sub Investigation
Custom Section 2
- Heart Failure Society of America 2024, CVRx APP Product Theatre Presenter, postponed event.
- American Association of Heart Failure Nurses 2025, CVRx APP Product Theater Presenter & program development speaker
- Heart Failure Society of America 2025, APP Product Theatre Presenter & program developement speaker
- American Association of Heart Failure Nurses Device Summit 2025, Moderator
- Daxor, blood volume analysis APP speaker, 2024-2025
- CVRx, APP speaker and advisory role, 2025
- Alnylam, 2025 National Sales Meeting APP expert and speaker, 2025 - present
- Bayer, product speaker, 2025-present
Timeline
Advanced Heart Failure, MCS, and Transplant Cardiology Nurse Practitioner
Stern Cardiovascular Institute / Baptist Memorial Hospital
07.2023 - Current
Family Nurse Practitioner, Cardiology/ Heart Failure/Genetic cardiomyopathies
Sutherland Cardiology
03.2022 - Current
Patient Care Coordinator, Registered Nurse, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare
10.2015 - 03.2022
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Baptist DeSoto
06.2015 - 10.2015
Registered Nurse, Long-term Acute Care Unit
Baptist Memorial Hospital
01.2014 - 01.2017
LPN, Director of Nursing Services
Applegrove Alzheimer’s and Dementia Facility
02.2009 - 07.2014
Master of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
The University of Memphis
Bachelor of Science - Registered Nurse
Christian Brothers University
Associate of Science of Nursing - Registered Nurse
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Licensed Practical Nursing -
Bevill State Community College