Invited Faculty
Martha Gulati, MD
- Professor, Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai
- Director, Preventive Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai
- Associate Director, Preventative and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, Cedars-Sinai
- Associate Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai
- Anita Dann Friedman Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Medicine and Research, Cedars-Sinai
Ali Javaheri, MD
- Assistant Professor, Medicine Cardiovascular Division, Washington University in St. Louis
Amy Kontorovich, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology and Genomic Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
- Director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, Mount Sinai
- Medical Director of Adult Cardiovascular Genetics, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai
Kathryn Lindley, MD, FACC
- Director, Multidisciplinary Women’s Heart Center, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute
Ibrahim Saeed, MD
- Medical Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Virginia Heart
John Saxon, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
- Co-Director, Advanced Cardiac Valve Center, University of Virginia Medical Center
Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH
- Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Ryan Tedford, MD
- Chief of Heart Failure and Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation, MUSC Health
Robert Toto, MD
- Mary M. Conroy Professor of Kidney Disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Director of the Center for Translational Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Medical Director, UT Southwestern Medical Center Multi-Specialty Clinic
Janet Wright, MD, FACC
- Director, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Saint Luke’s Health System Faculty
Suzanne Arnold, MD
- Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Elizabeth Grier, 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
Anthony Hart, MD
Jessica Heimes, DO
- Surgical Director of Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Chetan Huded, MD, MSc
- Medical Director, Left Atrial Appendage Closure Program, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
- Associate Medical Director, Structural Heart Program, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
- Associate Program Director, Structural Heart Fellowship, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Dany Jacob, MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Jessica Kline, DO
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
Steve Laster, MD
- Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Director of Interventional Cardiology, Saint Luke's Health System
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
Jack Pluenneke, PharmD
Adam Salisbury, MD
Andrew Sauer, MD
- 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
Dan Steinhaus, MD
- Medical Director of Electrophysiology Quality, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Tracy Stevens, MD
- Medical Director, Saint Luke’s Muriel I. Kauffman Women's Heart Center
Randall Thompson, MD
- Immediate Past President, Board of Directors of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
- Professor of Medicine, UMKC