Meet the Speakers
Invited Faculty
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
Immediate-past President, American Heart Association
Co-chair, Governance Committee, American Heart Association
Chairperson, Manuscript Oversight Committee and Awards Subcommittee, American Heart Association
2017 Physician of the Year, American Heart Association
George Bakris, MD
Director, Comprehensive Hypertension Center, University of Chicago
Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
Chair, Blood Pressure Consensus Panel, American Diabetes Association
Member, Resistant Hypertension Guideline Panel, American Heart Association
Past President, American Collage of Clinical Pharmacology
Past President, American Society of Hypertension (ASH)
Recipient, Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award
Bernard J. Gersh, MB, Ch. B., D. Phil
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic of Medicine
Consultant, Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic of Medicine
Past Chief of Division of Cardiology, Georgetown University Medical Center
Editorial Board Member, US Cardiology Review
Editorial Board Member, European Cardiology Review Journal
Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Director, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai
Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program, Cedars-Sinai
Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, Cedars-Sinai
Professor of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai
Recipient, 2020 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Pioneer in Medicine
James C. 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
Member, ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guideline Committee
Member, Board of Directors of the Heart Failure Society of America
Member, Executive Committee of the Association of Professors of Cardiology
Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA
President, Baylor Scott and White Research Institute
Senior Vice President, Baylor Scott and White Health System
Former President, Patrick H. Lehan Chair of Cardiovascular Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Zachary L. Cox, PharmD
Professor of Pharmacy, Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy
Fellow, Heart Failure Society of America
Daniel B. Kramer, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Member, Cardiac Electrophysiology Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Member, FDA Medical Device Fellowship Program
Kathryn J. Lindley, MD
Director, Center for Woman’s Heart Disease, Washington University in St. Louis
Associate Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis
Saint Luke’s Health System Faculty
Timothy M. Bateman, MD
Co-Medical Director of Cardiovascular Radiologic Imaging, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
President, InterSocietal Accreditation Commission
Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Kevin A. Bybee, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, MD
Medical Director of Structural Heart Intervention and Fellowship, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Marci Ebberts, MSN, FNP, RN, CCRN-K
Clinical Education Specialist, Saint Luke’s Health System
Sanjaya K. Gupta, MD, MBA
Program Director of Electrophysiology Fellowship
Assistant Medical Director of Electrophysiology Quality, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Chetan P. Huded, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Dany Jacob, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Jessica A. Kline, DO
Electrophysiologist, Saint Luke’s Health System
Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD, FACC, FAHA
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
Interim Co-Medical Director of Cardiovascular Research, Saint Luke’s Health System
Kyle P. Lehenbauer, MD
Cardiologist, Saint Luke’s Health System
Advanced Structural Echo Fellow, Columbia University
Sean McCarney, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Saint Luke’s Health System
Michael E. Nassif, MD
Medical Director of Hospital At Home, Saint Luke’s Health System
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
James H. 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
Graham Pollock, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Saint Luke’s Health System
Andrew J. Sauer, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
John T. Saxon, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC
David G. Skolnick, MD
Medical Director of Valve Center of Excellence, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, Saint Luke’s Health System
Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Kristin Sollars, MSN, RN, CCRN
Clinical Education Specialist, Saint Luke’s Health System
Brett W. 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 A. Spertus, MD
Clinical Director of Outcomes Research, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Interim Co-Medical Director of Cardiovascular Research, Saint Luke’s Health System
Lauer Missouri Endowed Chair, UMKC
Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Daniel A. Steinhaus, MD
Medical Director of Electrophysiology Quality, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Randall C. Thompson, MD
Immediate Past President, Board of Directors of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Professor of Medicine, UMKC
Rafael S. Torosyan, MD
Nephrologist, KC Kidney Consultants
Stefanie Vamenta, MD
Third Year Cardiology Fellow, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Alan P. Wimmer, MD
Medical Director for Arrhythmia Services, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMKC