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Dr Biykem Bozkurt is the Immediate Past President of the Heart Failure Society of America. DrBozkurt is a Professor of Medicine, an advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation specialist, Medical Care Line Executive (Medicine Department Chair) at the DeBakey VA Medical Center; W.A. “Tex” and Deborah Moncrief, Jr., Chair; Mary and Gordon Cain Chair; Vice-Chair of Department of Medicine;… View more
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Prof Akshay Desai is a cardiovascular medicine specialist and the director of the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr Desai’s research focuses on improving care and outcomes for HF patients, as well as strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions. Prof Desai received his medical degree from HMS. He completed an internal medicine residency as well as… View more
Job title: Cardiologist
DrRobert Mentz is aCardiologist andAssociate Professor of Medicine atDuke University, Durham, US. He has a clinical and research interest in heart failure, including advanced therapies such as cardiac transplantation and mechanical assist devices or heart pumps. View more
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Job title: Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Personal History Dr Keki Balsara is a cardiothoracic surgeon based in Nashville, Tennessee. Academic History Dr Balsara completed a BA in 1998 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his MD. He pursued his internship, residency and fellowship at Duke University, and another residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed an MBA at The Wharton School in 2019. … View more
Personal History Dr. Tarun W. Dasari is a cardiologist in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including OU Health University of Oklahoma Medical Center and Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was born in Hyderabad, India where he completed his MD. Academic History Dr. Dasari graduated from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad,… View more
Author(s): Syed Yaseen Naqvi , Ibrahim G Salama , Ayhan Yoruk , et al Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure is a progressive and fatal disease that affects more than 23 million people worldwide, and will affect more than 8 million people in the USA by 2030.1,2 Despite major advancements in medical and device treatments for heart failure in recent decades, the incidence of heart failure continues to rise. This epidemic has a major impact on patient quality of life, while imposing heavy… View more
Personal History Dr David Alan Baran is a Cardiologist from Parsippany, New Jersey. He is married and based in Norfolk, Virginia. Academic History In 1988, Dr Baran received his Bachelor’s (Hon) in Chemistry from Florida Atlantic University, followed by an M.D. from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in 1992. He finished his Residency at NY Presbyterian… View more
Job title: Assistant Professor of Medicine
Personal History Dr Tamas Alexy is a Cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He speaks Hungarian and German.3, 5 Academic History Dr Alexy graduated Summa Cum Laude with his Medical Degree (2001) and earned his PhD in Clinical Cardiology (2005) from the University of Pecs Medical and Health Sciences Centre in Hungary.1, 2 He did his… View more
Author(s): Andrew JS Coats , Biykem Bozkurt , Carolyn Lam Added: 2 years ago
SGLT-2 inhibitors represent one of the single biggest advances in heart failure practice, but how confident are you when comes to using them in different patients, and what can we reasonably expect in the coming months and years from ongoing trials? Watch our esteemed faculty – Prof Andrew Coats, Dr Biykem Bozkurt and Prof Carolyn Lam as they summarise the latest SGLT-2 inhibitor data in… View more
Author(s): Biykem Bozkurt , Andrew JS Coats , Mikhail Kosiborod Added: 1 year ago
Taking the recent ACC heart failure guideline updates as its core theme, this symposium, part of Heart Failure Online 2022, provides a succinct overview of the changes with one of the guideline’s primary authors. The faculty then consider how guidelines have evolved to accommodate the growing number of foundational treatments for heart failure and how we are moving towards personalised… View more