Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin

Dr. Elaine Winkel received her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Illinois. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine, was chief resident in Internal Medicine, and then completed fellowships in Cardiology and in Heart Failure and Transplantation at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois. She joined the faculty at Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center in Chicago in 1994 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Rush Medical College. She was an attending cardiologist in the Heart Failure and Transplant program at Rush, and served as the program director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship.

She joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Heart Failure and Transplant Program in 2005 as an Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Winkel is the program director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship here at UW. She's currently the PI in a study of spironolactone in middle aged and elderly heart failure patients. Her clinical interests are the care of patients with all forms of heart failure, including the use of ventricular assist devices and heart transplantation. Her research interests include myocarditis, anemia in heart failure, surgical treatment of heart failure, and the use of ventricular assist devices. She has been an investigator in numerous clinical heart failure trials studying new pharmalogic agents, pacemakers, and ventricular assist devices.