Featured Speakers
Robert Califf, MD, MACC
Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC
Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Founding Chairman of the TIMI Study Group
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Faculty
Christopher M. O’Connor, MD, FACC, FESC, FHFSA
CEO and Executive Director, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine (adj), Duke University;
Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Heart Failure
Merdod Ghafouri, DO, FACC, FAHA
Medical Director, Chief Patient Experience Officer
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Shashank S. Desai, MD, FACC
Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Program
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
All Faculty Members
Emma J. Birks, MBBS, Ph.D., B.Sc., FRCP
Professor of Medicine, Director, Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Support Program University of Louisville School of Medicine
Linda Bogar, MD
Surgical Director, Heart and Lung Transplant Programs
Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute
Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC
Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Founding Chairman of the TIMI Study Group
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Michael Bristow, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
University of Colorado
Peter Carson, MD, FACC
Cardiologist
Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Lauren Cooper, MD
Associate Director of Heart Failure Site Based Research
Director Phase 2/3 Heart Failure
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Christopher deFilippi, MD, FACC
Vice Chief for Academic Affairs, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University
Shashank Desai, MD, MBA, FACC
Medical Director, Heart Failure and Transplant Program
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Michael Felker, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Heart Failure Section
Duke School of Medicine
Mona Fiuzat, PharmD, FACC
Senior Scientific Advisor to the FDA Commissioner
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Associate Professor of Medicine (Adj.)
Duke University School of Medicine
Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, FCCP
Professor of Medicine, VCU
Co-Director of Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Merdod Ghafouri, DO, FACC, FAHA
Medical Director
Chief Patient Experience Officer
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
James Januzzi, MD, FACC, FESC
Cardiology Division
Massachusetts General Hospital
Hutter Family Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Cardiometabolic Trials
Harvard Clinical Research Institute
Mariell Jessup MD, FAHA, FACC, FESC
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Penn Heart and Vascular Center
JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, FACC, FAHA
Director, Heart Failure and Transplant Program
Vanderbilt University
Alan B. Miller, MD, FACC
Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
University of Florida, Jacksonville
Christopher O’Connor, MD, FACC, FESC
Executive Director and CEO
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine (adj)
Duke University
Editor-in-Chief
JACC: Heart Failure
Milton Packer, MD, FACC
Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular
Science, Baylor University Medical Center
Peter S. Pang MD MSc FACEP FAHA FACC
Associate Professor | Emergency Medicine
Associate Director | Clinical Research
Department of Emergency Medicine
Indiana University Translational Sciences Fellow
Indiana University School of Medicine
Stuart Russell, MD, FACC
Chief, Heart Failure and Transplantation
Johns Hopkins University
Palak Shah, MD, MS, FACC
Heart Failure and Transplantation
Inova Translational Medicine Institute
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine, George Washington University
Mark Slaughter, MD
Professor and Chief, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville
Executive Medical Director, Jewish Hospital
Director, Heart Transplant and Mechanical Assist Device, University of Louisville
John R. Teerlink, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FHFSA, FRCP
Director, Heart Failure Program
Director, Echocardiography Laboratory
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Todd Stottlemyer
Chief Executive Officer
Inova Center for Personalized Health
Hector Ventura, MD, FACC
Section Head Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation
Ochsner Medical Center
David J. Whellan, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA
James C. Wilson Professor of Medicine
Associate Provost for Clinical Research, Thomas Jefferson University
Associate Dean for Clinical Research, Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Executive Director, Jefferson Clinical Research Institute
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA
Vice Dean, Diversity & Inclusion
Magerstadt Professor of Medicine
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine