"The Mechanobiology of Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes"
Beth L. Pruitt, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

"Understanding Muscle Development Disease and Regeneration"
Eric Olson, PhD
Professor & Chairman, Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern

"Proteomics of Coronary Heart Disease: Development of Risk Prediction Models and a Candidate Protective Protein for Heart Failure "
Richard Lawn, MD
CVI Consulting Professor

"Cell-based therapy for ischemic cardiomyopathy"
Roberto Bolli, MD
Editor, Circulation Research
Chief, Division of Cardiology, University of Louisville

"Building coronary arteries during mammalian heart development"
Kristine Red-Horse, PhD
Assistant Professor of BIology, Stanford University

"A Viewpoint on the Intersection of Medical and Data Science"
Laura C. Lazzeroni, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
4pm @ LKSC - LK101/102

"Do cKit progenitor cells really regenerate the heart with new myocytes?"
Jeffery D. Molkentin, PhD
Professor & HHMI Investigator
Cincinnati Children's
4pm @ LKSC - LK101/102

"Cardiovascular Drug Discovery in 2015"
Anthony "Tony" Muslin, MD
Vice President, Head of Cardiovascular and Fibrosis, Sanofi
Noon @ LKSC - LK101/102

"Does the Cardiac Stem Cell Matter?"
James T. Willerson, MD
President, Texas Heart Institute
Noon @ LKSC - Paul Berg Hall A

"Systems Pathobiology and Network Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease"
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Editor, Circulation
Professor & Dept Chair of Medicine at Harvard/BWH
Noon @ LKSC - Paul Berg Hall A

"How to Discover Medicines"
Mark Fishman, MD
President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)
Noon @ Munzer Auditorium

"Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells"
Irv Weissman, MD
Director Stanford Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute
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"The safe use of pediatric anesthetics: What we have learned from animal models and imaging"
William Slikker, Jr., PhD
Director, National Center for Toxicological Research (FDA)
Noon @ LKSC - LK130

"Translating the extreme biology of pythons to mammalian hearts"
Leslie Leinwand, PhD
Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Cellular Biology, Univ of Colorado-Boulder
CSO, BioFrontiers Institute
Noon @ LKSC - LK130

"Regulation of myocardial growth and death by the Hippo pathway"
Junichi Sadoshima, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair, Department of Cell Biology
Rutgers University
Noon @ LKSC - LK130

"MCS: State of the Art"
Dipanjan Banerjee
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Richard Ha
Assistant Professor of CT Surgery, Stanford University
Noon @ LKSC - LK130

"Nature, Nurture, and Metrics of Immunological Health"
Mark Davis
Director, Immunology Institute, Stanford University
Francois Haddad
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Noon @ LKSC - LK130

Narayan: "Bioengineering Solutions to Better Treat Heart Rhythm Disorders"
Wang: "Creating the Arrhythmia Therapy of the Future"
Paul Wang & Sanjiv Narayan
Professors of Medicine, Stanford University
Noon @ LKSC - LK130

"Vascular Metabolism"
Zoltan Arany
Assoc Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Noon @ LKSC - LK130

"Lithoplasty: A paradigm shift in interventional vascular therapy"
Todd Brinton, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine

"DAPT after DAPT"
David Lee, MD
Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine

Noon @ LKSC - LK101/102

"Advanced Cardiac CT: The Clinical Value of Functional Applications"
Koen Nieman, MD
Department of Cardiology and Department of Radiology
Erasmus University, Rotterdam

"Understanding the Molecular and Genetic Basis of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection (TAAD)"
Michael S. Parmacek, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Univ of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
11:30 - 12:30 pm @ LK130

"Modifiers of Myopathy"
Beth McNally, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Genetic Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
11:30 - 12:30 pm @ LK130

"The State of the Future for Pediatric Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine"
Daniel Bernstein, MD
Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel Smith Salter Endowed Professor in Pediatrics
12:00 - 1:00 pm @ LK101/102

"Signaling pathways shared in vascular inflammation and oncogenesis"
Dean Y. Li, MD, PhD
HA and Edna Bennign Professor of Medicine, Associate Vice President for Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Health Sciences; Vice Dean for Research, School of Medicine
Utah School of Medicine
12:00 - 1:00 pm @ Paul Berg Hall A LKSC

"The Living Heart Project: A Translational Research Initiative "Towards Realistic Cardiac Simulation"
Ellen Kuhl, PhD - Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering - Stanford University

"Extracellular Matrix Patterning and Shear Stress on Vascular Function"
Ngan Huang, PhD - Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery - Stanford University
11:30 - 12:30 p.m. LK120

"The beta-1 adrenergic receptor gene signaling network in human ventricular myocardium"
Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
CU Cardiovascular Institute (CU CVI)
12:00 - 1:00 pm @ Paul Berg Hall A LKSC

CVI Retreat | Keynote Speakers

Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, MACP
Chief, Division of Medicine-Cardiology
Northwestern University

Garrett Fitzgerald, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology; Associate Dean for Translational Research
University of Pennsylvania

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"Redox Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Cell Cycle"
Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern
11:30 - 12:30 pm @ LK120

"Cardiac Calcium and CaMKII Signaling in Heart Failure and Arrhythmias"
Donald M. Bers, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
University of California, Davis
11:30 - 12:30pm @ LK120

"Can Exercise Teach Us to Treat Heart Failure?"
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Chief of the MGH Division of Cardiology and co-director of the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center in the Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke; Director of Cardiovascular Research and associate chief of Cardiology
Beth Israel
12:00 - 1:00 pm @ Paul Berg Hall A LKSC

Gordon F. Tomaselli, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiology Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
12:00 - 1:00 pm @ Paul Berg Hall A LKSC

Christmas Week & New Year's Week