Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science

Regulatory Roles of Oncogenes in Cardiac and Vascular Diseases
Chinmay M. Trivedi MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School

4th Annual Gootter Foundation Lecture

Frontiers in Atrial Fibrillation | Video (SUNet ID required)
Barbara Casadei, MD, DPhil
British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Oxford

Molecular Imaging of Light Chain Cardiac Amyloidosis | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Cardiovascular Medicine
Radiology
Harvard Medical School

Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death: Old Problem, New Solutions | Video (SUNet ID required)
Katherine Wu, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
The John Hopkins Medical Institutions

Strategies to Advance Cardio-Oncology: From Phenotyping Cohorts to Conducting Clinical Trials | Video (SUNet ID required)
Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE
Founders Associate Professor of Cardio-Oncology
Department of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Guiding 3D vascular fate and assembly | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sharon Gerecht, PhD
Edward J. Schaefer Professor of Engineering
Director, Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Johns Hopkins University

Notch Signaling in Arterial Venous Programming and Arteriovenous Malformation | Video (SUNet ID required)
Rong Wang, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Mildred V. Strouss Endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery
Director, Laboratory for Accelerated Vascular Research
UCSF

Allele-specific genetic and hypoxic control of an epigenetic lncRNA axis orchestrates endothelial reprogramming in pulmonary hypertension | Video (SUNet ID required)
Stephen Y. Chan, MD, PhD
Director, Vascular Medicine Institute
Director, Center for Pulmonary Vascular Biology and Medicine
Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC

Desmosomal failure translates into intracellular calcium dysregulation: A mechanism for sudden death in the young | Video
Mario Delmar, MD, PhD
Patricia and Robert Martinsen Professor of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine

Adaptable and hemodynamic endothelial cells for therapeutic organogenesis and tumor targeting | Video
Shahin Rafii, MD
Arthur B. Belfer Professor in Genetic Medicine
Division Chief of Regenerative Medicine
Director Ansary Stem Cell Institute
Weill Cornell Medical College

2021 Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

Event Recordings

Mechanisms of Ibrutinib Induced Atrial Fibrillation | Video
David J. Milan, MD
Chief Scientific Officer
Leducq

Cardiac Wound Healing After Myocardial Infarction | Video (SUNet ID required)
Merry L. Lindsey, PhD
Chair and Stokes-Shackleford Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Director, Center for Heart and Vascular Research University of Nebraska Medical Center

How heart scars regulate their own size | Video (SUNet ID required)
Arjun Deb, MD
Professor of Cardiology; Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Director of the UCLA Cardiovascular Medicine Research Theme
UCLA

Unbiased Phenotype-Based Approach to Biology: from Small Molecules to Big Data | Video (SUNet ID required)
Charles C. Hong, MD, PhD
Dr. Melvin Sharoky Professor of Medicine
Director of Cardiology Research
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Obscurins: Giant Cytoskeletal Regulators in Heart Disease | Video
Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Director of Interdisciplinary Training Program in Muscle Biology, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Myocardial Recovery: Bedside to Bench and Back | Video
Stavros G. Drakos, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine & Nora Eccles Treadwell Scholar, Division of Cardiology
Research Director, Co-Chief of Heart Failure & Transplant
Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training
University of Utah

Heart Failure: An Immune-Mediated Disease | Video
Sumanth D. Prabhu, MD
Professor of Medicine
Mary G. Waters Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Disease
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Biomechanical and Mechanobiological Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypertension due to Left Heart Failure | Video (SUNet ID required)
Naomi Chesler, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology
UCI Samueli School of Engineering

Achieving inclusive excellence in biomedical research: applying genomics to unravel health disparities in organ transplantation
Hannah Valantine, MD, MRCP
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development
Stanford University School of Medicine

Cell Transitions in the Heart after Birth | Video
Katherine Yutzey, PhD
Professor Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, The Heart Institute Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Genetics of Familial Hypercholesterolemia | Video
Catherine Boileau, PharmD, PhD
Chair of the Genetics Department
Bichat Hospital

Engineering micro- and nanostructured materials for cardiovascular disease therapy | Video (SUNet ID required)
Tejal Desai, PhD
Department Chair and Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
UCSF School of Pharmacy

Igniting the Flame of Inflammation through Cardiomyocyte CAMKII and Inflammasome Activation | Video
Joan Heller Brown, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
UCSD School of Medicine

Engineering hiPSC-Myocytes to Study Disease & Treat Heart Failure | Video (SUNet ID required)
Michael Regnier, PhD
Director, UW Center for Translational Muscle Research
Professor of Bioengineering, School of Medicine & College of Engineering
University of Washington

Novel Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Quality Control in the Myocardium | Video
Åsa Gustafsson, PhD
Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmacology
UCSD School of Medicine

"Understanding the Complexity of T Cell Activation in Heart Failure"
Pilar Alcaide, PhD
Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor
Associate Professor of Immunology
Tufts University School of Medicine

"Genetic Determinants of Thrombosis"
Charles Lowenstein, MD
Director, Division of Cardiology
Co-Director, John Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins

"Heart Failure Omics: Cardiac Metabolism and Beyond"
Svati Shah, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean of Genomics and Director of Precision Genomics Collaboratory
Director, Duke Adult Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic
Co-Director, Translational Research, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
Vice-Chief, Translational Research, Division of Cardiology Duke
University School of Medicine

"Molecular Mechanisms of Small Vessel Disease in Hypertension and CADASIL"
Rhian M. Touyz, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP, FRESE, FMedSci
Professor, British Heart Foundation
Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre
University of Glasgow

"Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Engineering and Regeneration"
Yibing Qyang, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Pathology
Director of Yale Stem Cell Research Forum
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale Stem Cell Center
Yale University School of Medicine

"cBIN1 and T-tubule Remodeling: Mechanism, Biomarker, and Therapy for Failing Hearts"
Robin M. Shaw, MD, PhD
Director, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute
Nora Eccles Harrison Presidential Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine
University of Utah

"Programming and Reprogramming: what does it take to make a cardiomyocyte?"
Li Qian, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Director of McAllister Heart Institute
CFAC Chair of Animal Cores
Faculty Director of UNC Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Core
UNC School of Medicine

2020 Gootter Foundation Lecture

"Neuroscientific Therapies for Heart Disease"
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Radiology & Bioengineering
Director, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs
Director & Chief, UCLA Interventional CV Programs & Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
David Geffen School of Medicine & UCLA Health
System Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology

"Vascular Regeneration with Stem Cells, Reprogrammed Cells and Engineering"
Young-Sup Yoon, MD, PhD
Director of Stem Cell Biology Bruce R. Logue
Chair, Division of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Emory University School of Medicine

"Top-down Proteomics for Cardiac Systems Biology and Precision Medicine"
Ying Ge, PhD
Professor Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology
Department of Chemistry
Director of Human Proteomics Programs
University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Sudden Cardiac Death: Novel Approaches to Prediction and Prevention"
Sumeet S. Chugh, MD
Price Professor and Associate Director
Smidt Heart Institute Medical Director
Heart Rhythm Center Director
Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention Director
Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Dept of Medicine, Cedars Sinai

"COVID-19 Demographics Update"
Robert K. Jackler, MD
Sewall Professor and Chair Dept Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine

"COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease"
Masataka Nishiga, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Joseph Wu Lab
Cardiovascular Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine

"Genes Predisposing to Thoracic Aortic Disease: Insight into Molecular Pathogenesis"
Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD
President George H.W. Bush Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
Director of the Division of Medical Genetics
Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program
Director of the John Ritter Research Program
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
McGovern Medical School

"Myeloid Cells and Endogenous Retroviral Elements in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor in Pediatric Cardiology
Stanford School of Medicine

"Cell therapy: Clinical evidence and scientific advances"
Buddhadeb Dawn, MD
Professor and Chairman Department of Internal Medicine Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Nevada
Las Vegas School of Medicine

"Crucial Applications of Single Cell Gene Expression and Immune Profiling for Infectious Disease Research"
Brian R. Fritz, PhD
Associate Director, Strategic Market Development & Programs, Immunology Segment Manager
10x Genomics

"Epigenetic mechanisms in heart failure"
Gianluigi Condorelli, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology and Director, Post-Graduate School of Cardiology
Humanitas University Head, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Humanitas Research Hospital

Part I: "Targeting inflammation in hypertension"
Part II: "Why publish in Cardiovascular Research - basic and translational journal of the ESC"
Tomasz J. Guzik, MD, PhD
Regius Professor of Physiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow, Cardiovascular Research Centre
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

"Signalosomes and Pathological Cardiac Remodeling"
Michael Kapiloff, MD, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Ophthalmology and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford School of Medicine

"Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology for Studying Genomics and Cell Engineering"
Stanley Qi, MD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford School of Medicine

"Immune Checkpoints in Large Vessel Vasculitis"
Cornelia Weyand, MD
Professor in Medicine, Vasculitis Clinic, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology
Stanford School of Medicine

"A Two-Hit Model of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Mark Robert Nicolls, MD
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Endowed Chair, The Stanford Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Stanford University

"Battle of the Weight Loss Diets: Is Anyone Winning (at Losing)?"
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center

"Inside the American Heart Association’s Research Enterprise: Grant Funding and Other Opportunities"
Glenn Dillon, PhD
Director of Research Operations
American Heart Association

"Using Patient iPSCs to Generate Safe and Effective Drugs for Heart Disease and Cancer"
Mark Mercola, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Stanford School of Medicine

"iPSCs - Heart and the Gut"
Maria I. Kontaridis, PhD
Director of Research
Gordon K. Moe Professor and Chair Biomedical Research and Translational Medicine
Masonic Medical Research Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, Part-time
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

"Therapeutic Effects of Apelin Signaling on Cardiovascular Aging"
Jay Rajadas, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research), Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine

"Nanodomain cAMP signaling"
Manuela Zaccolo, MD, PhD
Professor and Deputy Head
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Professor, Cell Biology

"Precision Medicine: Opportunities for Impact Locally and Globally"
Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director of MEDx (Medicine and Engineering at Duke)
Director of Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine
Professor in Pathology
Professor in the School of Nursing
Duke University

"Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in a Developmental Context"
Martin Pera, PhD
Principal Investigator
The Jackson Laboratory
Editor, Stem Cell Reports

"Bridging the Translational Divide in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"
Sharlene M. Day, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Michigan Medicine Cardiology Clinic

"Exercise, Aging, and Heart Failure: New Targets for an Old Disease"
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Chief, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Paul Dudley White Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center

"Mechanisms in Cardiac Maturation and Diseases: Discovery to Therapy"
Yibin Wang, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine
Chair of Cardiovascular Theme
Vice Chair for Research
Director, Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
UCLA

"Cardio-Oncology: A novel platform for cardiovascular investigation"
Javid J. Moslehi, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Cardio-Oncology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

"Epigenetic Therapies for Heart Failure"
Timothy A. McKinsey, PhD
Associate Professor & Associate Division Head for Translational Research Director, Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

"The role of calcium handling dysregulation in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation"
Xander Wehrens, MD, PhD
Professor, Molecular Physiology
Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Juanita P. Quigley Endowed Chair in Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine

"Redefining Cardiovascular Biology One Cell At A Time"
Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics

"Metabolism and the Extracellular Matrix: A Convenient Relationship"
Steven P. Jones, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Director, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville

Stanford-Penn Cardiovascular Symposium

Li Ka Shing Center, Paul Berg Hall

"Functional Genomics Facility Resources"
John Coller, PhD
Director of Stanford Functional Genomics

"Drug and Target Discovery at the Stanford HTBC"
David E. Solow-Coredero, PhD
Director, High-throughput Bioscience Center (HTBC)

"Cardiac Regeneration: Hope or Hype"
Ronglih Liao, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

"HFpEF: Malady, Model, and Mechanisms"
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biology
James T. Willerson M.D. Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases; Frank M. Ryburn, Jr. Chair in Heart Research; Director, Harry S. Moss Heart Center; Chief of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center

"Arrhythmogenic Heart Disease: Breaking Down Cell-Cell Connections To Unravel New Pathways and Therapeutics"
Farah Sheikh, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine
UCSD School of Medicine

"Modeling human heart disease using fish and the dish"
Todd R. Evans, PhD
Peter I. Pressman Professor of Surgery Vice Chair for Research
Chief Division of Research Department of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical School

"Health effects of secondhand smoke; and should we care about marijuana and e-cigarettes?"
Matt Springer, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCSF

"Acute Heart Failure Management 2019: Are We on the Right Path?"
Eric Velazquez, MD
Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine; Physician-in-Chief, Heart and Vascular Center, Yale New Haven Health

"Circulating RNA: Bridging Obesity, the Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Disease"
Jane E. Freedman, MD
Edward Budnitz Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Director of Translational Research UMass Memorial Heart & Vascular Center University of Massachusetts Medical School

"Wearables and Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmias"
Mintu Turakhia, MD and Marco Perez, MD
Assistant Professors of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine

"Improving Cardiovascular ‘Diseases-in-a-Dish’ With Active Materials"
Adam J. Engler, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair of Bioengineering
University of California San Diego, La Jolla
The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla

"Inflammation and Atrial Fibrillation: Identification of Upstream Therapeutic Targets"
Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology), School of Medicine
UC Davis

"Hypoxia Inducible Factor in the Heart"
Ralph Shohet, MD
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Research Professor of Medicine, University of Hawaii

"The long QT syndrome: The long road from zero knowledge to personalized management"
Peter J. Swartz, MD
Professor and Head, Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin IRCCS Istituto, Auxologico Italiano

"Sex Differences in the Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease"
Leslie Leinwand, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Chief Scientific Officer, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder

4th Annual Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

"The Mencius Paradigm for Cardiac Rejuvenation"
Doug Sawyer, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Myocardial Biology & Heart Failure Research
Lab Chief, Cardiovascular Services, Maine Medical Center

"Engineering Approaches for Controlling the Cellularity of Cardiac Tissues From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Todd McDevitt, PhD
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UC San Francisco
Investigator, Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine at Gladstone

"Management of Complex Arrhythmias 2020: A Look at the Present and the Future"
Paul Wang, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Stanford University Medical Center

Sanjiv Narayan, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Stanford University Medical Center

"Illuminating Subcellular Cyclic Nucleotide Microdomains to Better Treat Cardiovascular Diseases"
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Viacheslav Nikolaev
Director, Institute Center for Experimental Medicine
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

"Load-dependent Cardiac Remodeling: New Tools & Translational Opportunities"
Kenneth B. Margulies, MD
Professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Research Director, Heart Failure/Transplantation

"Clonal Hematopoiesis and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease"
Sidd Jaiswal, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology

"Using Gene Expression to Interpret Common and Rare Genetic Diseases"
Stephen Montgomery, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology, and of Genetics
Stanford University

"How Biobanks are Enabling New Discovery and Implementation Science"
Dan M. Roden, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics
Sam L. Clark, MD, PhD Endowed Chair
Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine

"How Biobanks are Enabling New Discovery and Implementation Science"
David J. Pinsky, MD
Professor
Division Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan
Director, Frankel Cardiovascular Center

"Stem Cell Therapy for HLHS: The Next Frontier"
Timothy J. Nelson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Research
NWWI, Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Mayo Clinic Health System

"Translating Redox Biology to Medicine: Novel Properties of Hemoglobin in NO and CO Signaling and Therapeutics"
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair Department of Medicine Director
Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute

"Epigenomic Blueprint of the Heart"
Benoit G. Bruneau, PhD
William H. Younger Investigator, Associate Director,
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF

"Modeling the Genetic Landscape of Congenital Heart Disease with Mouse Forward Genetics"
Cecilia Wen Ya Lo, PhD
Professor and Dr. F. Sargent Cheevers Chair, Department of Developmental Biology
University of Pittsburgh

"A Change of Heart: Cellular and Genetic Dissection of Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration"
Neil C. Chi, MD, PhD
Director of the UCSD Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic and Cardiac Tissue Harvest and Biorepository Core

"CRISPR Genome Editing in the Mouse"
Joseph M. Miano, PhD
Associate Director, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute Professor, Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute University of Rochester Medical Center

"Genomics of CVD and its Risk Factors Enters the Clinic"
Jerome I. Rotter, MD
Director, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Director, Division of Genomic Outcomes
Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Human Genetics, UCLA

"Three Approaches to Understanding Mechanisms of AAA Disease"
Phil Tsao, PhD
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford School of Medicine

"Race, Risk and Resilience: Three Dimensions of Health Disparities"
Herman A. Taylor, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine

"Energy Metabolism of the Heart: Looking Beyond ATP"
Rong Tian, MD, PhD
Director of Mitochondria and Metabolism Center
Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, and Bioengineering
Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry and Pathology   

"A Path to Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease: Can We All Live to 100?"
Eugene Braunwald, MD
Chairman, TIMI Study Group
Professor, Harvard Medical School

"The Lancet and Dealing with Scientific Misconduct"
Stuart Spencer
Senoir Executive Editor, The Lancet

"Studying Coronary Artery Development to Identify Strategies for Regeneration"
Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology

"What's Keeping Me Busy"
Stephen Quake, PhD
Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics and, by Courtesy, of Physics

"Cardiovascular Derivatives of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Challenges in Next Generation Disease Modelling"
Christine Mummery, PhD
Professor of Developmental Biology, Chair Dept. of Anatomy & Embryology
Leiden University Medical Center

"Rapid 3D Bioprinting: An Enabling Platform for Microphysiological System"
Shaochen Chen, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of NanoEngineering Department Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology Departments; Co-Director of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center, University of California, San Diego

"Inflammation in Atherosclerosis: A Translational Tale"
Peter Libby, MD
Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School | Cardiovascular Medicine | Brigham and Women's Hospital

"Cyclophilin A – A Mediator of Cardiovascular Disease"
Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD
Distinguished University Professor in Medicine,
Neurology, Pathology, and Pharmacology & Physiology
Director, University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute
University of Rochester Medical Center

"CV Molecular Imaging Challenges and Opportunities"
Robert J. Gropler, MD
Professor of Radiology, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering | Senior Vice-Chair and Division Director Radiological Sciences | Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory | Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology | Washington University School of Medicine

"Lessons from the Heart: New Insights into Physiology from Ion Channelopathies"
Geoffrey Pitt, MD, PhD
Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute
The Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

"Decoding Oxidative Post-Translation Modification Fingerprints of Mitochondria: a Data Science Approach"
Peipei Ping, PhD
Professor, Physiology | Professor, Medicine/Cardiology, and Bioinformatics | Director, NIH BD2K Center of Excellence at UCLA | Director, NIH BD2K Centers-Coordination Center at UCLA

"Cardiovascular Epigenomics: From Chromatin Fiber to Human Populations"
Thomas M. Vondriska, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine and Physiology, UCLA

"Designer Materials for Cell Transplantation and 3D Bio-printing"
Sarah C. Heilshorn, PhD
Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford
Associate Editor, Science Advances | AAAS

"Human Genetics on a Massive Scale: Can we Make Drug Discovery More Efficient?"
Richard Scheller
CSO of 23andMe

"Biomaterial Strategies to Modulate Inflammation"
Kam W. Leong, PhD
Samuel Y. Sheng Professor | EiC, Biomaterials | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Columbia University

Inaugural Steven M. Gootter Foundation Lecture | Event Brochure
Mark E. Anderson, MD, PhD
William Osler Professor of Medicine | Director, Department of Medicine | Johns Hopkins University Department of Medicine | Physician in Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital

"Molecular Thermo-Biology in Physiology and Disease"
Shingo Kajimura, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology
UCSF

"Targeting GRK2 in the Failing Heart"
Walter J. Koch, PhD
William Wikoff Smith Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine | Professor and Chair, Pharmacology | Professor and Director, Center for Translational Medicine | Temple University

"Cooperative Activation of Cardiac Transcription Through Myocardin Bridging of Paired MEF2 Sites"
Brian Black, PhD
Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
UCSF

"Personalized Treatment Planning in Cardiovascular disease: From Computation to Clinic"
Alison L. Marsden, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford

"Hippo Signaling in Heart Regeneration"
James F. Martin, MD, PhD
Professor, Vivian L. Smith Chair in Regenerative Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine

"Ten Years of GWAS of CVD: What Now?"
Erik Ingelsson, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by Courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology)
Stanford

"Mobilizing Medicine: The Role of Proteomics in Precision Medicine"
Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD
Director, Advanced Clinical Biosystems Institute In The Department Of Biomedical Sciences | Director, Basic Science Research In The Women’s Heart Center | Erika J. Glazer Chair In Women’s Heart Health
Cedars Sinai

"Rho Kinase (ROCK) and Cardiovascular Disease"
James K. Liao, MD
Harold Hines, Jr., Professor
Chief, Cardiology Section
Director, Physician Scientist Training Program
University of Chicago

"The Future of Angiogenesis for the Treatment of Coronary Disease: A Historical Perspective"
Frank W. Sellke, MD
Karl E. Karlson, MD, and Gloria A. Karlson Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Brown Medical School and Lifespan Hospitals

"Mechanism and Therapy for Cerebral Cavernous Malformation"
Mark Kahn, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

"Heart Failure: Two Inflammatory Tales"
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
James T. Willerson, MD, Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases
Frank M. Ryburn, Jr., Chair in Heart Research
Chief of Cardiology
UT Southwestern

"Modeling Cardiovascular Development with Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Gordon M. Keller, PhD
Director, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Senior Scientist
Ontario Cancer Institute

"Gut Microbiota as Treatment Target for Cardio-Renal Risks"
Wilson Tang, MD
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic

"Stanford + Takeda: Alliance for Innovative Medicines"
Francois Haddad, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford

"Evidence-based Medicine: Precisely"
John P. A. Ioannidis
C. F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention in the School of Medicine and Professor of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and, by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science

"Signalosomes – Nodal regulators and Therapeutic Targets for Heart Failure"
Michael Kapiloff, MD, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Ophthalmology
Stanford

"The Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease: Long, Dazed Journey into Clinic"
Bruce D. Gelb, MD
Gogel Family Chair and Director of The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology, and Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences

"Precision Medicine for Heart Failure: Autologous iPSC-derived Exosomes"
Phillip C. Yang, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford

"A Layperson’s Involvement in Fighting CVD and Stroke"
Alvin L. Royse, JD, CPA
National Chair, American Heart Association

"Extracting More Sense from Sound: Ultrasonic Methods for Evaluating Age-Related Changes in Myocardial Structure and Function"
Susan Cheng, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital

"Physical Activity Interventions in Type 2 Diabetes: Opportunities for Collaboration"
Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS
Clinical Professor, Medicine - General Medical Disciplines
Stanford School of Medicine

"The Natriuretic Peptides and Cardiometabolic Disease: From Base Pairs to Bedside"
Thomas J. Wang, MD
Gottlieb C. Friesinger II Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

"Cardiac Maturation and Regeneration"
Charles E. Murry, MD, PhD
Woods Professor of Pathology, Bioengineering and Medicine/Cardiology; Interim Director, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Co-Director, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle

"Proline Hydroxylation Regulates Protein Degradation, Synthesis and Splicing in Human Induced-Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes"
Elizabeth Murphy, PhD
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

"Therapeutic Targeting of Cardiac (and Kidney) Fibrosis"
Burns C. Blaxall, PhD, FAHA, FACC, FAPS
Director of Translational Science, Heart Institute; Co-Director, Heart Institute Research Core & Biorepository; Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics; University of Cincinnati

"Renal Denervation in Heart Failure"
David Joseph Lefer, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
Professor of Pharmacology, LSU Health New Orleans

"Defining New Pathways for Human Cardiovascular Disease"
Peter J. Mohler, PhD
Professor and Chair, Physiology and Cell Biology
Ohio State University

"Genetic Drugs for Cardiac Repair and Regeneration"
Mauro Giacca, MD
Director-General
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)

"Beyond Biopsy: Using Genomics to Quantify Transplant Outcomes"
Hannah Valantine, MD
Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity

"Mechanosensing at Cell-cell and Cell-matrix Adhesions"
Alex Dunn, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Stanford School of Medicine

de Jesus Perez: "Precision Medicine in PAH"
Spiekerkoetter: "Targeting BMPR2 Deficiency in PAH"
Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD and Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD, PhD
Assistant Professors of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), Stanford School of Medicine

"Understanding and Manipulating Mitochondrial Dynamics"
Gerald W. Dorn, II, MD
Philip and Sima K Needleman Professor
Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics, Washington University School of Medicine

"The Flipside of Oxidative Stress: The World of Reductive Stress"
Ivor J. Benjamin MD, FAHA, FACC
Center Director, Professor
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Medical College of Wisconsin

"Introduction to the Stanford Human Immune Monitoring Center"
Holden Terry Maecker, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford School of Medicine

"The Role of Efferocytosis in Atherosclerosis"
Nicholas Leeper, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford School of Medicine

"Rebuilding the Failing Heart with Cell Therapy: Roadblocks to Overcome"
Jianyi "Jay" Zhang, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering | T. Michael and Gillian Goodrich Endowed Chair of Engineering Leadership | Professor of Medicine, of Engineering | School of Medicine, School of Engineering | The University of Alabama Birmingham

"Pathophysiologic Implications of Peripheral Artery Disease: It’s About Life and Limb"
Mark A. Creager, MD, FAHA
Director, Heart and Vascular Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

"Role of MG53 in Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy"
Rui-Ping Xiao, MD, PhD
Professor at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China

"Cardiac Progenitor Cells for Cardioregenerative Medicine"
Timothy J. Kamp MD, PhD
Co-director, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center | Cellular and Molecular Arrhythmia Research Program, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

"Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells to Cure Obesity and Diabetes"
Jonathan M. Graff, MD, PhD
UT Southwestern

"The Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Mitral Valve Disease"
Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD
Washington University School of Medicine

"Stem Cell Exosomes and Myocardial Repair"
Raj Kishore, PhD
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University

"A Systems Genetics Approach to Cardiovascular Disease"
Jake Lusis, PhD
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

"Translational Vascular Biology and the Development of Novel Therapeutics for Peripheral Arterial Disease"
Brian H. Annex, MD
University of Virginia Health System

"Viral Myocarditis: Role for Cytoskeleton and Intercalated Disc"
Kirk Knowlton, MD
Intermountain Heart Institute

"A Tale of Two Ventricles, Clinical and Translational Perspective"
Sushma Reddy, MD, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, and Francois Haddad, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Recent Developments in Cardiac CT"
Koen Nieman, MD, and David Liang, MD
Stanford University Cardiologists

"Engineering Heart Tissue for In Vitro Testing and Cardiac Repair"
Thomas Eschenhagen, MD
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

"Calcium Circuits in Cardiac Function and Survival"
Evangelia "Litsa" Kranias, PhD
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

"Good Enough Solutions in Biology and Medicine: Coping with Genetic Diversity"
James N. Weiss, MD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

"Cardiac Rhythmicity: From Development to Disease"
Glenn I. Fishman, MD
New York University School of Medicine

"Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Clinical, Molecular and Genetic Aspects"
David Maron, MD, and Joshua Knowles, MD, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Aging and Longevity Genes and Cardiovascular Disease"
Thomas F. Lüscher, MD, FRCP
University Zurich

"Molecular Basis of Anthracycline-induced Cardiotoxicity"
Edward T.H. Yeh, MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

"Development-neering"
Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"An Overview of the Million Veteran Program"
Phil Tsao, PhD, and Themistocles Assimes, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Stem Cell Dysfunction in Diabetes"
Aruni Bhatnagar, PhD
University of Louisville

"Precision Medicine: Promise or Proof?"
Mark Hlatky, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Building and Maintaining the Cardiovascular Connectome"
Calum A. MacRae, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

"Autoimmunity, Regulatory T Cells, Leukotriene B4 and the Evolution of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Mark Nicolls, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

2016 Stanford Drug Discovery Conference

"Innovation Driven Research and Development at Takeda"
Andrew Plump, MD, PhD
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company

"Mechanisms of Biomineralization in the Cardiovascular System"
Linda L. Demer, MD, PhD
UCLA

"S-nitrosylation Signaling in the Cardiovascular System"
Jonathan S. Stamler, MD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

"Cardiac Cellular Reprogramming: Doing the Unthinkable"
Todd Rosengart, MD, FACS
Baylor College of Medicine

"Short Telomeres as a Novel Marker of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy"
Helen M. Blau, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Digitizing Human Beings & Medicine"
Eric J. Topol, MD
The Scripps Research Institute

"IPSC Cardiac Disease Modeling for Drug Discovery"
Mark Mercola, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Low Dose Radiation from Cardiovascular Imaging: What's all the hype about?"
Dominik Fleischmann, MD, Stanford School of Medicine, and Patricia Nguyen, MD, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System

"Mechanisms of Hereditable Cardiac Disease"
Jonathan Seidman, PhD
Harvard Medical School

"Gut Microbes as Participants and Therapeutic Targets in Cardiometabolic Disease"
Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic

"Resynchronization of the Failing Heart and Reengineering SCD Risk"
Gordon F. Tomaselli, MD
Johns Hopkins University

"Can Exercise Teach Us to Treat Heart Failure?"
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Beth Israel

"Cardiac Calcium and CaMKII Signaling in Heart Failure and Arrhythmias"
Donald M. Bers, PhD
University of California, Davis

"Redox Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Cell Cycle"
Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD
UT Southwestern

CVI Retreat

"The Beta-1 Adrenergic Receptor Gene Signaling Network in Human Ventricular Myocardium"
Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD
University of Colorado Cardiovascular Institute

"The Living Heart Project: A Translational Research Initiative "Towards Realistic Cardiac Simulation"
Ellen Kuhl, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine, and

"Extracellular Matrix Patterning and Shear Stress on Vascular Function"
Ngan Huang, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Signaling Pathways Shared in Vascular Inflammation and Oncogenesis"
Dean Y. Li, MD, PhD
Utah School of Medicine

"The State of the Future for Pediatric Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine"
Daniel Bernstein, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Modifiers of Myopathy"
Beth McNally, MD, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

"Understanding the Molecular and Genetic Basis of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection (TAAD)"
Michael S. Parmacek, MD
Univ of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

"Advanced Cardiac CT: The Clinical Value of Functional Applications"
Koen Nieman, MD
Erasmus University, Rotterdam

"Lithoplasty: A paradigm shift in interventional vascular therapy"
Todd Brinton, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"DAPT after DAPT"
David Lee, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Vascular Metabolism"
Zoltan Arany
University of Pennsylvania

"Bioengineering Solutions to Better Treat Heart Rhythm Disorders"
Sanjiv Narayan, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Creating the Arrhythmia Therapy of the Future"
Paul Wang, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Nature, Nurture, and Metrics of Immunological Health"
Mark Davis, PhD, and Francois Haddad, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS): State of the Art"
Dipanjan Banerjee, MD, MS, and Richard-Tien Ha, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Regulation of Myocardial Growth and Death by the Hippo Pathway"
Junichi Sadoshima, MD, PhD
Rutgers University

"Translating the Extreme Biology of Pythons to Mammalian Hearts"
Leslie Leinwand, PhD
Univ of Colorado-Boulder

"The Safe Use of Pediatric Anesthetics: What We Have Learned from Animal Models and Imaging"
William Slikker, Jr., PhD
National Center for Toxicological Research (FDA)

"Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells"
Irv Weissman, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"How to Discover Medicines"
Mark Fishman, MD
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

"Systems Pathobiology and Network Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease"
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School

"Does the Cardiac Stem Cell Matter?"
James T. Willerson, MD
President, Texas Heart Institute

"Cardiovascular Drug Discovery in 2015"
Anthony "Tony" Muslin, MD
Sanofi

"Do ckit Progenitor Cells Really Regenerate the Heart with New Myocytes?"
Jeffery D. Molkentin, PhD
Cincinnati Children's

"A Viewpoint on the Intersection of Medical and Data Science"
Laura C. Lazzeroni, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Building Coronary Arteries During Mammalian Heart Development"
Kristine Red-Horse, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Cell-based Therapy for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy"
Roberto Bolli, MD
University of Louisville

"Proteomics of Coronary Heart Disease: Development of Risk Prediction Models and a Candidate Protective Protein for Heart Failure "
Richard Lawn, MD
CVI Consulting Professor

"Understanding Muscle Development Disease and Regeneration"
Eric Olson, PhD
UT Southwestern

"The Mechanobiology of Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes"
Beth L. Pruitt, PhD, MSc
Stanford School of Medicine

Irving L. Weissman, MD
Director, Stem Cell Institute
Stanford University

"Cardioprotection: A Tale of Two Mechanisms"
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
Chief of Cardiology, UT Southwestern
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Douglas L. Mann, MD
Chief of Cardiology
Washington University, St. Louis

"The Signal and the Noise: Predicting Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Using Big Data Approaches – Implications for Mobile Health and Wearable Tech"
Mintu Turakhia, MD
Asstant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Watch the Video

"The Changing Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke: Is it a Vascular Disease"
Bernard J. Gersh, J MB, ChB, Dphil, FACC
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Watch the Video

"Cardiac iPSCs for Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery"
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine & Cardiology
Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Watch the Video

"New Developments in Vascular Dysfunction"
John F. Keaney, Jr., MD
Associate Editor, NEJM
Chief of Cardiology, UMass Medical Center

"Ultasound Molecular Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine and Drug Development"
Jonathan R. Lindner, MD
Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science Univ
Watch the video

"Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease: Pathogenesis and Progression"
Ronald Dalman, MD
Stanford University

"Cardiovascular Research: Challenges and Opportunities Locally and Globally"
Kenneth Mahaffey, MD
Stanford University
Watch the video

"Experiences in Drug Discovery"
P. Roy Vagelos, MD
former CEO of Merck
Watch the video

"A Case for Microvascular Pathology in Chronic Right Ventricular Failure"
Norbert Voelkel, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Watch the video

"Guidelines, Cardiovascular Health, and the Public"
Howard Bauchner, MD
Editor, JAMA

"Inflammation, immunity and hypertension. You’ve got to be kidding?"
David Harrison, MD
Vanderbilt University

"Molecular regulation of angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis"
Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD
Stanford University

"Natural Cardiac Reconstruction via Surgical and Biologic Therapies"
Joseph Woo, MD
Stanford University

"Harnessing the genetics of pulmonary hypertension to therapeutic advantage"
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
Stanford University

"Hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy: Four decades of basic research on muscle lead to potential therapeutic approaches to these devastating genetic diseases"
James Spudich, PhD
Stanford University

"Cardio-oncology: New insights from MRI regarding cancer treatment related cardiovascular injury"
Gregory Hundley, MD
Wake Forest Baptist Health

"Identifying mechanisms for coronary heart disease risk alleles"
Thomas Quertermous, MD
Stanford University

"Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1∝-mediated vascular repair prevents tissue remodeling in transplant rejection"
Mark Nicolls, MD
Stanford University

"Publishing with Cell Stem Cell: Opening up the Black Box"
Deborah Sweet, MD
Cell Press/Elsevier/Cell Stem Cell

"Mechanisms of Cardiac Injury and Repair"
Steven R. Houser, PhD, FAHA
Temple University

"Circulating Cell-Free DNA for the Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Rejection and Infection after Solid Organ Transplantation"
Kiran Khush, MD
Stanford University

"From Computational Biophysics to Animal Models: An Integrative Approach to Sarcomeric Cardiomyopathies"
Jill Tardiff, MD, PhD
University of Arizona

"Image-based cardiovascular fluid dynamics – from images and computer simulations to individualized intervention planning"
Matts Karlsson, PhD
Linköping University, Sweden

"KLF and Cardiometabolic disease"
Mukesh K. Jain, MD
Case Western Reserve Univ

"Enhancing SERCA2a Function in Heart Failure: From Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Trials"
Roger Hajjar, MD
Mount Sinai Hospital

"Adventures in understanding and managing variable drug actions: from QT prolongation to population genomics"
Dan M. Roden, MD
Vanderbilt University

"Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes"
Sanjay Sharma, BSc (Hons), MD, FRCP (UK), FESC
St. George's Healthcare

"Biased G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling in the Heart"
Howard Rockman, MD
Duke University

"Opening the Black Box: Investigating the Coronary Microvasculature in the Cath Lab"
William Fearon, MD
Stanford University

"A Transcriptional and Signaling Pathway Controlling Outflow Tract Alignment"
Brian L. Black, PhD
UC San Francisco

"Comparative Effectiveness of CABG and PCI"
Mark Hlatky, MD
Stanford University

"The Role of Revascularization in Stable Occlusion After Myocardial Infarction and Stable Ischemic Heart Disease"
Judith Hochman, MD
NYU School of Medicine