

Dr. Ann Gage
Interventional Cardiologist
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Dr. Ann Gage is the medical director of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Episode # 2 • 09 Jun 2026
Proctor’s Playbook: VA-ECMO
CathMasters walk through the step-by-step procedural approach to VA-ECMO (veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) cannulation. Building on the Data to Delivery episode, this Proctor Playbook episode covers pre-procedural planning, cannula selection, team composition and equipment, the role of the distal perfusion cannula (DPC), decision-making on mechanical left ventricular (LV) unloading, anticoagulation dosing and timing, the cannulation procedure itself, and vascular closure strategies during decannulation. The hypothetical case continues with the 36-year-old man with fulminant myocarditis, biventricular failure, and cardiogenic shock.
Audio editing for this episode was performed by CardioNerds Intern, Dr. Julia Marques Fernandes.
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Dr. Ann Gage is a native of Dayton, Ohio. Following an undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Gage received a Masters of Science in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati after which she completed her Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Gage then completed her Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship and a Cardiac Critical Care fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She completed an Interventional Cardiology fellowship at the University Hospitals Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, before joining the Cleveland Clinic faculty in 2018. She served as a staff cardiologist in the Section of Interventional Cardiology within the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic where her time was spent as both an Interventional Cardiologist and a Critical Care Cardiologist.
Dr. Gage is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Interventional Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine. She is also board certified in Echocardiography. Dr. Gage is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Heart Association. Dr. Gage maintains both an Interventional Cardiology and a Cardiac Critical Care practice. She specializes in the coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiogenic shock, appropriate revascularization strategies for cardiogenic shock, cardiac critical care and mechanical circulatory support, and acute management of pulmonary embolus.
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