Part of the Elevated Healthcare Symposiums Conference Series
Program Directors
Richard Wright, MD, MACC
Richard Wright, MD, MACC
Richard Wright, MD, MACC
Richard Wright, MD, MACC, is an internationally recognized cardiologist and healthcare policy leader who currently serves as Co-Director of the California Medicare Contractor Advisory Committee, Chair of the American College of Cardiology National Carrier Advisory Committee, and Cardiology Advisor to Medicare’s Relative Value Update Committee. He was previously the Director of the Heart Institute at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica and a long-standing member of the clinical faculty at UCLA. Currently, he is Chair, Pacific Heart Institute, Santa Monica, CA, and a heart failure cardiologist affiliated with Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Wright completed his residency and cardiology fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he trained under some of the nation’s foremost leaders in cardiovascular medicine. Throughout his career, Dr. Wright has been widely recognized for advancing heart failure care, shaping national reimbursement and clinical policy, and mentoring the next generation of cardiovascular specialists.
Scott David Solomon, MD
Richard Wright, MD, MACC
Richard Wright, MD, MACC
Scott D. Solomon, MD, is the Edward D. Frohlich Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician, and Director of the Clinical Trials Outcomes Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. A globally recognized leader in cardiovascular medicine, he has pioneered major advances in heart failure research, directing numerous phase 2 and 3 trials that have shaped modern therapeutics across reduced, mildly reduced, and preserved ejection fraction. His work contributed to the development of cornerstone treatments—including sacubitril/valsartan, SGLT2 inhibitors, and finerenone—and he has authored more than 1,500 peer-reviewed publications along with key textbooks in echocardiography. Dr. Solomon has also advanced the role of cardiac imaging in clinical trials, led NIH cohort imaging centers, served in senior editorial roles for leading journals, and currently serves as Editor of Braunwald’s Heart Disease.
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Faculty
Ankeet Bhatt MD, MBA, ScM
Gregg Fonarow MD, FACC, FHFSA
Ankeet Bhatt MD, MBA, ScM
Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research
Assistant Professor, Kaiser Permanente
Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Justin Ezekowitz, MD
Gregg Fonarow MD, FACC, FHFSA
Ankeet Bhatt MD, MBA, ScM
Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta
Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
Co-Director, Canadian VIGOUR Centre
President, Canadian Heart Failure Society
Gregg Fonarow MD, FACC, FHFSA
Gregg Fonarow MD, FACC, FHFSA
Ty Gluckman MD, MHA, FACC, FAHA, FASPC
Director, Ahmanson-UVLA Cardiomyopathy Center
Co-Director, UCLA Preventive Cardiology Program
Eliot Corday Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, UCLA
Ty Gluckman MD, MHA, FACC, FAHA, FASPC
Ty Gluckman MD, MHA, FACC, FAHA, FASPC
Ty Gluckman MD, MHA, FACC, FAHA, FASPC
Medical Director, Center for Cardiovascular Analytics, Research, and Data Science
Providence St. Joseph Health, Portland, OR
Carolyn Lam, MBBS, PhD, FACC
Ty Gluckman MD, MHA, FACC, FAHA, FASPC
Carolyn Lam, MBBS, PhD, FACC
National Heart Centre Singapore
Senior Consultant, Director Women's Heart Health
Professor, Duke- NUS Graduate Medical School
Ahmad Masri MD, MS
Ty Gluckman MD, MHA, FACC, FAHA, FASPC
Carolyn Lam, MBBS, PhD, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University
Cardiomyopathy Section Head, Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Portland, OR
Robin Miller DNP, MPH, ACNP-BC
Robin Miller DNP, MPH, ACNP-BC
Robin Miller DNP, MPH, ACNP-BC
Advanced Heart Failure Program, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, OR
Assistant Professor, Oregon Health and Science University
President-Elect, American Association of Heart Failure Nurses
Jim Mudd, MD, FACC
Robin Miller DNP, MPH, ACNP-BC
Robin Miller DNP, MPH, ACNP-BC
Providence Center for Advanced Heart Disease and Transplantation,
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, WA
David Ouyang, MD
Robin Miller DNP, MPH, ACNP-BC
David Ouyang, MD
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Cedars-Sinai, Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Anjali Owens, MD
Geoffrey Rose, MD, FACC, FASE
Geoffrey Rose, MD, FACC, FASE
Medical Director, Center for Inherited Disease
Director, Familial Cardiomyopathy Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Geoffrey Rose, MD, FACC, FASE
Geoffrey Rose, MD, FACC, FASE
Geoffrey Rose, MD, FACC, FASE
President, Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute Atrium Health
Jerome and Roslind Richardson Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Nancy Sweitzer MD, PhD
Geoffrey Rose, MD, FACC, FASE
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Vice-Chair of Medicine for Clinical Research
Associate Director, Institute for Clinical and Translation Sciences
Director of Clinical Research, Division of Cardiology, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Board of Directors, Heart Failure Society of America
Editor in Chief, Circulation: Heart Failure
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director, Heart Transplantation
Director, Cardiac Amyloidosis
UC San Diego Health, San Diego, CA
Muthiah Vaduganathan MD, MPH
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD
Muthiah Vaduganathan MD, MPH
Co-Director, Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Orly Vardeny PharmD, MS
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD
Muthiah Vaduganathan MD, MPH
Minneapolis VA Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research
Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Director, VALOR-CKM
Andrew Willeford, PharmD, PhD, BCCP
Andrew Willeford, PharmD, PhD, BCCP
Andrew Willeford, PharmD, PhD, BCCP
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences,
Heart Failure Pharmacist
UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
UC San Diego Health