2023 Speakers
Invited Faculty
Eric Alder, MD
- ACC Pfizer Career Development Award
- Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases
- Professor, UC San Diego School of Medicine
George Bakris, MD
- Director, Comprehensive Hypertension Center, University of Chicago
- Chair, Blood Pressure Consensus Panel, American Diabetes Association
- Resistant Hypertension Guideline Panel, American Heart Association
- Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award
- Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
- Past President, American Collage of Clinical Pharmacology
- Past President, American Society of Hypertension (ASH)
James Fang, MD
- Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah Health Care
- Director, Cardiovascular Service Line, University of Utah Health Care
- John and June B. Hartman Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah Health Care
- Board of Directors of the Heart Failure Society of America
- Executive Committee of the Association of Professors of Cardiology
- ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guideline Committee
Kathryn Lindley, MD
- Director, Women’s Heart Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Samuel S. Riven, MD, Directorship in Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM
- Chair, Department of Preventative Medicine, Northwestern University
- Chair, Eileen M. Foell Professor of Heart Research and Professor of Preventive Medicine, Medicine, and Pediatrics, Northwestern University
- Co-chair, Governance Committee, American Heart Association
- Chairperson, Manuscript Oversight Committee and Awards Subcommittee, American Heart Association
- Immediate-past President, American Heart Association
- 2017 Physician of the Year, American Heart Association
Nassir Marrouche, MD
- Director, Tulane University Heart and Vascular Institute
- Director, Tulane Research Innovation for Arrhythmias Discoveries (TRIAD)
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)
- James H. Youngblood Excellence in Leadership Award
- Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tulane University
- Former head, Electrophysiology Labs and the Atrial Fibrillation Program, University of Utah
Sanjiv Shah, MD
- Director of Research for the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Director, Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Medicine in the Insitute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Director, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) Program, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- George Joost MD, Teacher of the Year Award, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- American College of Cardiology W. Proctor Harvey, MD Teaching Award
- Stone Endowed Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Subodh Verma, MD
- Co-author, 2018 Diabetes Canada guidelines and 2018 AATS consensus guidelines on bicuspid aortic valve-related aortopathy
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery
- American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia
- Professor, University of Toronto
- Past recipient of the Howard Morgan Award for Distinguished Achievements in Cardiovascular Research
- Past recipient of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gold Medal in Surgery
Malissa Wood, MD
- Associate Chief of Cardiology for Diversity and Health Equity, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Co-Director, Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Board of Directors of the American Society of Echocardiography
- Associate Professor Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Past-President, Boston Board of the American Heart Association
Saint Luke’s Health System Faculty
Matthew Bunte, MD
- Director of Vascular Medicine, Saint Luke’s Physician Group
- Co-Director, Saint Luke's Hospital Vascular Center
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
J. Russell Davis, MD
- Surgical co-director, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
Marci Ebberts, MSN, RN, APP
- Clinical Education Specialist, Saint Luke’s Health System
Anna Grodzinsky, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Namita Gupta, MD
Sanjaya Gupta, MD
- Program Director, Electrophysiology Fellowship
- Assistant Medical Director of Electrophysiology Quality, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Chip Hayes, PharmD
Chetan Huded, MD, MSc
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Dany Jacob, MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Mikhail Kosiborod, MD
- Vice President of Research, Saint Luke’s Health System
- Director of Cardiometabolic Research, Saint Luke’s Health System
- Co-Director, Saint Luke’s Michael & Marlys Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Kyle Lehenbauer, MD
- Cardiologist, Saint Luke’s Health System
- Advanced Structural Echo Fellow, Columbia University
Michael Nassif, MD
- Medical Director of Hospital At Home, Saint Luke’s Health System
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
James O’Keefe, MD
- Medical Director of the Charles and Barbara Duboc Cardio Health & Wellness Center, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Co-Director, Saint Luke’s Michael & Marlys Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence
- Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Valerie Rader, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Adam Salisbury, MD
Andrew Sauer, MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Brett Sperry, MD
- Medical Director of Amyloid Heart Program, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
- Assistant Program Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
- Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC
John Spertus, MD
- Clinical Director of Outcomes Research, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
- Lauer Missouri Endowed Chair
- Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Dan Steinhaus, MD
- Medical Director of Electrophysiology Quality, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Randall Thompson, MD
- Immediate Past President, Board of Directors of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
- Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Alan Wimmer, MD
- Medical Director for Arrhythmia Services, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC