Michele Esposito, MD, FSCAI, is an assistant professor of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and subsequently completed all of her medical training at Tufts Medical Center, including dual subspecialty fellowships in both interventional cardiology and advanced heart failure transplant cardiology. While at Tufts, she also completed two dedicated research fellowships, first as the inaugural Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Research Fellow and then as the Robert Kung Interventional Heart Fellow Research Fellow. She now practices as an interventional-heart failure attending at MUSC. 

Her research focuses on the mechanisms underlying peripheral microvascular dysfunction in heart failure, advanced hemodynamics, and cardiogenic shock. She is currently supported by a K12 Clinician Scientist Award from the MUSC College of Medicine. Her work has been published in multiple high-impact journals and has earned numerous accolades, including young investigator awards from the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, the Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators' Forum, and the Acute Cardiac Unloading and Remodeling Symposium.