Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 12 pm – 5:30 pm (PST)

Friday, August 16, 2024 - 8:30 am – 5:30 pm (PST)

Paul Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center, Stanford University

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Keynote Speakers

Victor Dzau, MD

President of the National Academy of Medicine

Ivor Benjamin, MD

Director, Cardiovascular Center
Professor of Medicine, Medical College Wisconsin
Past President of the American Heart Association

Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Ward Professor and Director, Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation

Speakers

Michael Abecassis, MD, MBA

Dean, University of Arizona College of Medicine

Euan Ashley, MD ChB, PhD

Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor of Genomics and Precision Health

Casey Gifford, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine

Tina Hernandez- Boussard, MD

Prof of Biomedical Informatics, of Biomed Data Science, and of Surgery; Assoc Dean of Research

Ngan Huang, PhD

Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Research), Stanford School of Medicine

Joshua Knowles, MD

Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Jim Liao, MD

The Robert S. and Irene Flinn Endowed Chair in Medicine; Chair, Department of Medicine; Professor, Medicine, Univ of Arizona

Lloyd Minor, MD

The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean of the School of Medicine, Stanford University

Elizabeth Ofili, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine

Victoria Parikh, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD

Director, Sarver Heart Center; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona

Palaniappan Sethu, PhD

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jil Tardiff, MD, PhD

Prof of Biomedical Engineering, Prof of Medicine, Prof of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona

Philip S. Tsao, PhD

Professor (Research) of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University

Jay Zhang, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Departmentt of Biomedical Engineering, SOM and SOE, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Anupam Agarwal, MD

Senior Vice President for Medicine and Dean, University of Alabama Birmingham

Nadjet Belbachir, PhD

Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford School of Medicine

Paul Heidenreich, MD

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Mark Hlatky, MD

Professor of Health Policy and of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Erica Johnson, PhD

Assoc Prof of Microbiology, Biochemistry, & Immunology and of OBGYN, Morehouse School of Medicine

Nicholas Lam, PhD

Instructor, University of Arizona

Nicole Lohr, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Patricia Nguyen, MD

Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Anekwe Onwuanyi, MD

Professor and Chief of Cardiology, Morehouse School of Medicine

Sushma Reddy, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Stanford School of Medicine

Karim Sallam, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Walkitria Smith, MD

Associate Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine

Herman Taylor, MD, MPH

Endowed Professor and Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine

Joseph Tyndall, MD

Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean, Morehouse School of Medicine

Kevin Alexander, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Ian Chen, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Sarah Heilshorn, PhD

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford School of Medicine

Anna Hnatiuk, MD, PhD

Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford School of Medicine

Beth Kaufman, MD

Clinical Professor, Pediatric Cardiology

Eldrin F. Lewis, MD, MPH

Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Ivan Mendez-Montes, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Arizona

Thanh Nguyen, PhD

Scientist I, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama Birmingham

Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Manuel Rosa-Garrido, PhD

Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama Birmingham

Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine

Marcia Stefanick, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, and of OBGYN, Stanford School of Medicine

Alan T.N.Tita, MD, PhD

Mary Heersink Endowed Chair of Global Health and Prof of OBGYN; Sr Associate Dean of Global and Women's Health

Yajing Wang, MD, PhD, FAHA

Prof, Vice Chair for Research, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Heersink School of Medicine, and School of Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Agenda

All times are Pacific Time

Organizing Committee

Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery

Amanda Chase, PhD

Associate Director of Strategic Research Development

Ngan Huang, PhD

Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Research)

Patricia Nguyen, MD

Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

Joseph Wu, MD, PhD

Director Stanford Cardiovascular Institute; Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor

Francesca Tongco, MS-HCA

Project Coordinator

Joshua Knowles, MD

Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

Sushma Reddy, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)

Sean Wu, MD, PhD

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

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