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Meet the 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