Aug
14
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Hot Topics and Controversies in Cardiovascular Prevention @ LKSC Berg Hall
Aug 14 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Hot Topics and Controversies in Cardiovascular Prevention @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenters: Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH and Joshua Knowles, MD, PhD

Rodriguez: Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University

Knowles: Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University

Rodriguez:

Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH is a preventive and general cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford. Rodriguez received her medical training from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University. She specializes in common cardiac conditions such as coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, lipid disorders, and cardiovascular risk assessment in high-risk populations.

Rodriguez’s research includes a range of topics relating to racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in cardiovascular disease prevention and developing novel interventions to address disparities.

Knowles:

Josh Knowles, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and he states, “The overall theme of my research has been the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease across the continuum from Discovery to the development of Model Systems to the Translation of these findings to the clinic and most recently to the Public Health aspect of genetics.” He completed his MD-PhD at UNC with Prof. Nobuyo Maeda and Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies. He did Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship training at Stanford working with Dr. Tom Quertermous. Currently his Discovery and basic translational efforts center on understanding the genetic basis of insulin resistance using GWAS studies coupled with exploration in model systems. His clinical translational focus is on Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) and he is the volunteer Chief Medical Advisor of the FH Foundation (FHF) which is a patient-led organization dedicated to increasing awareness of FH, identifying and treating patients with FH and screening family members to prevent deleterious outcomes. He helped lead the FHF efforts to establish a national patient registry (CASCADE FH), apply for an ICD10 code for FH and is now using cutting-edge “big-data” approaches to identify previously undiagnosed FH patients in electronic medical records (FIND FH). He has published over 90 papers with research projects currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Sep
18
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: From Dogma to Data: Management of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Left Ventricular Dysfunction @ LKSC Berg Hall
Sep 18 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: From Dogma to Data: Management of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Left Ventricular Dysfunction @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Eric Velazquez, MD

Robert W. Berliner Professor of Cardiology;  Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University

Eric Jose Velazquez,  MD, newly named as the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Cardiology, is globally recognized as an authority in heart failure, cardiovascular clinical trials, and cardiac imaging.

Velazquez is a clinician-investigator whose major contributions to science include the design, development, and implementation of landmark, randomized clinical trials that have altered international guidelines and the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure, particularly those with concomitant coronary artery disease. With his Duke colleagues and over 100 centers worldwide, Velazquez led the Surgical Treatment of Ischaemic Heart Failure Trial. The program defined the role for coronary artery bypass grafting in increasing survival of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Oct
9
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, the Epic Battle of the Old Man and the Sea @ LKSC Berg Hall
Oct 9 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, the Epic Battle of the Old Man and the Sea @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Francois Haddad, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University

Francois Haddad, MD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and specializes in the field of heart failure, transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and advanced cardio-vascular imaging. He also directs Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Biomarker and Phenotypic Core Laboratory whose mission is to identify the best biomarkers to detect, monitor and manage cardiovascular disease. Haddad has over 12 years of practice in the field of cardiology and has a special interest in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction also known as diastolic heart failure, pulmonary hypertension as well as systemic hypertension.

 

Feb
12
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Resilience @ LKSC Berg Hall
Feb 12 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Resilience @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM

ProfessorCardiovascular MedicineMedicineBoston University School of Medicine

ProfessorEpidemiologyBoston University School of Public Health

Co-InvestigatorFramingham Heart Study

Assistant Provost for Faculty Development, Boston University School of Medicine

Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, received her AB at Harvard, her MD at Case Western Reserve University, and her Epidemiology ScM at Harvard School of Public Health. She is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University and is a clinical cardiologist at Boston Medical Center. She is author of over 650 peer-reviewed publications that focus on the on the genetics, epidemiology, and prognosis of a variety of cardiovascular conditions and markers including atrial fibrillation, vascular function, and systemic inflammation. She is multi-Principal Investigator on 2RO1 atrial fibrillation grants [2R01HL092577 & 1R01HL128914], and is the Center and Training Director on an American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network on Atrial Fibrillation. She also is MPI on 2 mobile Health grants (1R01HL141434 and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).

Dr. Benjamin has conducted research at the Framingham Study since 1988. She is a Member of the Executive Committee, and is Co-Director of the Medical Endpoints Committee. She was Principal Investigator of the grant that recruited the second generation of the Framingham Study’s ethnic/racial minority cohort, the Omni Study.

In addition to her research, she is Assistant Provost for Faculty Development for Boston University Medical Campus, and Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Diversity, BU Department of Medicine. She co-designed and co-leads Faculty Development Programs for Early, Mid-Career, Under-Represented Ethnic and Racial, Women, and Clinical leaders. A committed mentor, she has won local and national awards for her mentoring of early career investigators. She also won the 2020 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.

An active volunteer for the American Heart Association since 1992, she has served on a variety of local and national Committees. She is Past-Chair of the American Heart Association’s Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Council and Study Section, and the annual Heart and Stroke Statistical Update.

She received the 2015 Paul Dudley White Award, the 2016 AHA Gold Heart Award, the 2016 Population Research Prize, the 2019 Laennec Clinician/ Educator Lecturer, and the Genomics and Precision Medicine 2019 Distinguished Achievement Award. She Chairs of the Science and Clinical Education Lifelong Learning Committee.