Vanderbilt fellows, Richa Gupta and Jessica Huston, interview past HFSA president Dr. JoAnn Lindenfeld, Director of Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation Section at Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, about the nuts and bolts of cardiac transplantation. Topics discussed include organ allocation, recipient selection, high-risk donors, short and long-term complications, and what non-transplant physicians should know about immunosuppressive medications.