Previous Presentations
Presentations of the Clinical Cardiovascular Research Conference from previous academic years are listed below.
Peter Wilson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine; Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; Director of Epidemiology and Genomic Medicine, Atlanta VA Medical Center
Big Data, Genetics and CVD in Veterans
Dean Jones, PHD, Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine and Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine
Exposome Medicine: Facing a Grand Challenge
Janghee Woo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
The Clone Wars: Unraveling the Biological and Molecular Consequences of Clonal Hematopoiesis
Guillermo Umpierrez, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Emory University School of Medicine; Director, Grady Memorial Hospital Clinical Research Network, Atlanta CTSA; Director, Endocrinology Section, Grady Memorial Hospital
ADA Update on the Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Ambar Kulshreshtha, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Health and Cognition
Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD, Professor of Pedagogy, Department of Religion; Executive Director, Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, Emory University
Resilience and Healing through Compassion
Samar R. El Khoudary, PhD, MPH, FAHA, Vice Chair of Education for Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Clinical and Translational Science Institute, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Menopause and CVD Risk: 2020 AHA Scientific Statement
Manoj Bhasin, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Emory School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech; Associate Member of Benson Henry Institute for Mind body Medicine; Director of Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Aflac Director, Single Cell Biology Program at Children Healthcare of Atlanta
Single-Cell Omics: Unraveling Disease Complexity and Therapeutic Responses, One Cell at a Time
Arash Harzand, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine; Senior Innovation Fellow, Veterans Health Administration
Clinical Applications of Machine Learning for Risk Prediction in Heart Disease
Douglas Bremner, MD, Professor, Department of Psychaitry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine; Director, Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Institute
Short and Long Term Effects of COVID on Brain and Mental Health
Anant Madabhushi, PHD, FAIMBE, FIEEE, FNAI, Robert W. Woodruff Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Biomedical Informatics, Pathology, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University; Research Career Scientist, Atlanta VA Medical Center
Artificial Intelligence and Cardiovascular Medicine
Alanna Morris, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine; Director of Heart Failure Research, Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Rsearch Institute
Achieving Equity in Heart Failure: Where Do We Go From Here?
Charles Searles, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Impact of Cardiovascular Health Intervention on Molecular Profiles of MECA Participants
Ahmed Tawakol, MD, Director, Nuclear Cardiology, Co-Director Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Stress and Cardiovascular Disease: New Data and Clinical Implications
Edmund K. Waller, MD, PhD, FACP, Rein Saral, MD Professorship in Cancer Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University; Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Center for Stem Cell Processing and Apheresis, Emory University Hospital; Director, Center for Regenerative Engineering and Medicine, Emory University, Georgia Tech and The University of Georgia
Repurposing vasoactive intestinal polypeptide signaling for anti-cancer immunity
Brett Wong, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Health, Georgia State University
Sensory nerve-mediated vasodilation in humans
Greg Gibson, PhD, Professor and Tom and Marie Chair in Biological Sciences, Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, and member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology
Polygenic Risk by Environment Interactions for Cardiovascular Disease
Yan Sun, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Multi-ancestry Genomic Studies of Cardiovascular Disease
Carlo De Cecco, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Updates in Artificial Intelligence applied to Coronary CT Angiography
Faisal Merchant, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Aging Gracefully with an ICD
Jonathan Kim, MD, Chief of Sports Cardiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Orthopedics, Emory University School of Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
American-style Football Athletes: A Natural Model of Early Cardiovascular Risk
Neal Dickert, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Incentivizing Participation in Clinical Research- Enhancing Equity or Exploitation?
Shivani A. Patel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Integrating the social-ecological framework into clinical cohort studies: experiences and new exploration
Neal Bhatia, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Amit Shah, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; Staff Physician, Division of Cardiology, Atlanta VA Medical Center
Applications of Digital Health Technology in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Dean Jones, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine and Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory
Cardiovascular Exposome Medicine: Are there exposures with small but important risk?
Arash Harzand, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Vascular Medicine & Digital Health
Kelli Komro, PhD, Professor, Departments of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Community randomized trial in the Cherokee Nation: A multi-level intervention for preventing drug misuse among older adolescents
Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory Univeristy
Cardiovascular Consequences of Sleep Disparities
Puja K. Mehta, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Womens Translational Cardiovascular Research, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries (MINOCA)
Alanna Morris, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Heart Failure in African Americans: Differences and Disparities
Douglas Bremner, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology and Director of the Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (ECNRU) at Emory University School of Medicine
Transcutaneous Vagal Nerve Stimulation - Vascular, Autonomic, and Brain Effects
David Reiter, PhD, Assistant Professsor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Current and Emerging MRI Approaches for Characterizing Bioenergetics and Microcirculation in Human Skeletal Muscle
Alvaro Alonso, MD, PhD, Professor and Stephens D. Clements, Jr. Chair in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Atrial Fibrillation and Cognitive Decline
Marina Piccinelli, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Hybrid Imaging for the Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease
Shakira Suglia PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Understanding Mechanisms Linking Childhood Adversity and Cardiometabolic Health
K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA, Ruth and O.C. Hubert Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Why are South Asians more prone to type 2 diabetes?
Michele Casper, PhD, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of CVD: Online Resources, Available Data and Research Findings
Jonathan Kim, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
American-Style Football and Cardiovascular Concerns
Carlo N. De Cecco, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Division of Cardiothoracic Imaging, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
MyocardiAl CT Perfusion and Coronary Flow a CompreHensive Cardiac CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI)/Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) and PET-MPI Evaluation (The MATCH Investigation)
Shivani Patel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Cardiometabolic disease in South Asians: epidemiology and population health
Amit Shah, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Prediction and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with Mobile Health Technologies
Karan Uppal, PhD, Director of Computational Systems Medicine & Metabolomics Lab; Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Systems medicine approaches for identifying markers of chronic kidney disease in cardiovascular disease patients
Greg Gibson, PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Integrative Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Polygenic Risk in Cardiology
Gina Lundberg, MD, Clinical Director Emory Women's Heart Center, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
CVD in Women: From maternal mortality to menopause
Sundeep Chaudhry, MD, Chief Medical Officer, MET-Test, LLC
Clinical Update in Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Arshed A. Quyyumi, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director, Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Emory University School of Medicine
Arterial Stiffness: Technique and Implications
Neal Dickert, Jr, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Epidemiology, Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health
Sharing, Nudging, or Flying Blind? Decision Making Challenges in Cardiology
Gina Lundberg, MD, Clinical Director, Emory Women's Heart Center; Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Hormones, Lipids & CVD in Women
Alvaro Alonso, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Emory Rollins School of Public Health
Using healthcare claims to study comparative effectiveness of cardiovascular interventions: The case of oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation
Alanna Morris, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Racial Differences in Heart Failure Severity: Nature vs. Nurture
Faisal Merchant, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Making better decisions about defibrillator implantation
Véronique L. Roger, MD, PhD, Elizabeth C. Lane and Nadine M. Zimmerman Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Heart Failure in the Community
Tiffany Powell-Wiley, MD, MPH, FAHA, Chief, Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Laboratory, Cardiovascular Branch, DIR, NHLBI
Systems Science Approaches to Evaluate the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Cardiometabolic Risk
Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery; Director, Emory Center for Health Services Research, Emory Departments of Surgery & Medicine; Director, Transplant Health Services and Outcomes Research Program, Emory University School of Medicine; Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
Addressing Health Disparities in Early Access to Kidney Transplantation: A Health Services Research Approach
Omer Inan, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
Cardiogenic Vibrations Sensing for Health and Performance
Arash Harzand, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Digital Approaches to Cardiac and Vascular Rehabilitation: A Millenial's Guide
Greg Gibson, PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Integrative Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Polygenic risk assessment for cardiac disease
Peter G. Kaufmann, PhD, FABMR, Associate Dean of Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, University of South Florida College of Nursing
Did Study Population Eligibility Criteria Pre-Determine the Outcome of the Look AHEAD Trial?
Melinda Higgins, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
Reproducible Research - Infrastructure, Pipelines and Process
Amir Rezvan, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Shear Regulated ZBTB46 and Endothelial Cell Proliferation: Clinical Implications
Dean Jones, MD, Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary), Emory University School of Medicine
Redox Definition of Oxidative Stress
Raj Dedhia, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Sleep Medicine, Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery and Director, Sleep Surgery Center, Emory University School of Medicine
Novel OSA Treatment on Sympathetic and Vascular Function
Carlos Rodriguez, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Prevention Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Further Understanding Cardiovascular Disease in Hispanics: the Second Echocardiographic Study of Latinos
Yan Sun, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Cardiovascular Genetics Research in Large Biobank Studies
Luke Brewster, MD, PhD, MA, RVT, Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Novel Animal Models of PAD
Greg Gibson, PhD, Professor of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Predictive Health Genomics for Cardiovascular Disease
Robert Cole, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Racial Differences in the Development of the de novo Donor-Specific Antibodies following Heart Transplant
Paul Marvar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, GW Institute for Neuroscience, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Brain Angiotensin II as a Mediator of Fear Memory and Cardiovascular Dysfunction
Mohammed K. Ali, MD, Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health & Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
The Changing Profile of Diabetes Outcomes and Implications for the Future
Arshed A. Quyyumi, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Co-Director, Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute (ECCRI), Emory University School of Medicine
Vascular Endothelial Function Measurement in Humans: Technique, Interpretation, and Consequences; Live Demo-Part 1
Omer Inan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Non-Invasive Physiological Sensing and Modulation for Human Health and Performance
Amit Shah, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Novel ECG-Based Biomarkers in Predicting Cardiovascular Events
John Oshinski, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine
New Cardiac MRI Techniques for Clinical Research
Jeanie Park, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Nephrology), Emory University School of Medicine
Neurocirculatory Control During Sympathoexcitation
Alessandro Veneziani, PhD, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University
Perspectives and Challenges of Scientific Computing in Clinical Trials
Tom Ziegler, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) and Director, Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, Emory University School of Medicine; Co-Program Director, Research Education, Training and Career Development Core, Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI); Program Director, Emory University Hospital Research Unit, ACTSI Clinical Research Network
Dietary Quality and CVD Disease Risk Factors: Data from the Center for Health Discovery and Well Being
Neal Dickert, Jr., MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, ECCRI; Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology; Emory Center for Ethics
Decisions, decisions...
Arshed Quyyumi, MD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk
Jonathan A. Nye, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow with Imaging
Matt Burg, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Associate Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine
Mental stress provoked ischemic syndromes: Where do we go from here??
W. Virgil Brown, MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), Emory University School of Medicine
APoCiii as a CV Risk Factor
Amit Shah, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Digital Health Models: A Biopsychosocial Approach
Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Current Challenges in Mechanical Circulatory Support
Bagher Larijani, MD, Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute (EMRI), Islamic Republic of Iran
Tackling NCDs: a Multidisciplinary Approach
Puja K. Mehta, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine and Director, Women's Translational Cardiovascular Research, Emory Women's Heart Center
Coronary Vascular Dysfunction
Jonathan Kim, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Physiology, Georgia Institute of Technology; Medical Director, Peachtree Road Race
Profiling the Effects of Moderate Distance Recreational Running and Aging on Cardiac PHysiology: Results from the P.E.A.C.H. Study
Whitney Wharton, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Emory University, School of Medicine
"Alzheimer's Disease And Vascular Risk Factors: What We Know From Large Data Sets"
George D. Dangas, MD PhD
Professor of Cardiology & Vascular Surgery
Director, Cardiovascular Innovation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
"Controversies On Dual Antiplatelet Therapy"
Francisco Pasquel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipids
Emory University, School of Medicine
"Management Of Hyperglycemia In The ICU: GLUCO-CABG Trial"
Amir Rezvan MD, MS
"Mechanical Forces, Inflammation, And Atherosclerosis"
Greg Gibson PhD
Omic personality and cardiovascular risk in healthy people"
JP Ginsberg PhD
"Insights from studies of the Effects of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback on Combat PTSD"
Neal W. Dickert, Jr. MD, PhD
"High-resolution metabolomics: Addressing the challenge of multimorbidity"
J. Douglas Bremner MD
"Neural Mechanisms of Stress and Depression in Cardiovascular Disease"
Peter Wilson MD
"Diabetes and CVD"
A. Maziar Zafari MD, PhD
"In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: An Update"
Dr. Laurence Sperling MD, FACC, FACP, FAHA
"Office-Based Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: A Perspective on the 2013 AHA/ACC Prevention Guidelines"