Ludwine D. Paul, MSN, ACNP-BC, AACC

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Ludwine D. Paul, MSN, ACNP-BC, AACC is an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and a Nurse Practitioner in the Cardiomyopathy Department at Boston Medical Center. She serves as Chief Advanced Practice Practitioner (Chief APP) for Cardiovascular Medicine and Lead Nurse Practitioner for the Heart Failure and CardioMEMS Remote Monitoring Program and is an Associate of the American College of Cardiology (AACC).

Ludwine holds several institutional leadership roles, including Chair of the Boston University Medical Group Advanced Practice Provider (BUMG APP) Council and Representative for the Special Clinical Staff Officer to the Medical-Dental Staff (MDS) Clinicians’ Council. In these positions, she provides strategic guidance on advanced practice governance, systems of care, and scope of practice. Her leadership emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, operational efficiency, and the optimization of Advanced Practice Provider roles across the institution.

As Chief APP for Cardiovascular Medicine, Ludwine provides clinical and administrative leadership for APP practice within the division, supporting quality improvement initiatives, workforce development, and high-quality cardiovascular care. As Lead Nurse Practitioner for the Heart Failure and CardioMEMS Remote Monitoring Program, she contributes to innovative care models aimed at improving patient outcomes and reducing heart failure–related readmissions. She also served on the Readmissions Strategy Working Group, focused on system-level strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions at Boston Medical Center.

Ludwine’s professional interests include heart failure management, APP leadership and professional development, patient education, and mentoring nurse practitioner students from universities and colleges across Massachusetts.

After earning her Master of Science in Nursing from Northeastern University, Ludwine joined the Cardiology Group at Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, where she held a variety of clinical and managerial roles over eight years, including co-founding the Advanced Heart Failure Program with Dr. Alyson Kelley-Hedgepeth.

Prior to joining Boston University, Ludwine served as Director of Nursing for Adult Services at the May Institute, Inc., overseeing nursing services across the Northeast, Western Massachusetts, and Florida. The May Institute, a nonprofit headquartered in Randolph, Massachusetts, provides community-based, educational, rehabilitative, and behavioral healthcare services for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. In this role, she led initiatives to standardize nursing practices in collaboration with Quality Improvement and Human Resources, including systems development, standard operating procedures, documentation, nursing forms, job classifications, and performance evaluation. She also established residential nursing services within select programs to improve health outcomes, mentored non-clinical staff on health-related issues, initiated Nurses Week recognition in 2014, and served on multiple organizational committees.

Ludwine is fluent in Haitian Creole and is an Approved Bilingual Provider (ID #ABP351). She actively engages in community education initiatives, providing health-related lectures to the Haitian community.

Publications

  • Published 7/6/2024

    Paul LD, Moinul S, Urina-Jassir M, Gopal DM, Ayalon N. Expanding pulmonary artery pressure monitoring to racially and socially diverse populations: A pilot CardioMEMS program. Am J Med Sci. 2024 Oct; 368(4):408-410. PMID: 38972379.

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  • Published 7/24/2023

    Madhani A, Sabogal N, Massillon D, Paul LD, Rodriguez C, Fine D, Helmke S, Winburn M, Kurian D, Raiszadeh F, Teruya S, Cohn E, Einstein AJ, Miller EJ, Connors LH, Maurer MS, Ruberg FL. Clinical Penetrance of the Transthyretin V122I Variant in Older Black Patients With Heart Failure: The SCAN-MP (Screening for Cardiac Amyloidosis With Nuclear Imaging in Minority Populations) Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Aug; 12(15):e028973. PMID: 37486082.

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