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Cardiology Grand Rounds: The Inova Dudley Family Center Visiting Professor Series

  • Usually held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month
  • Target audience: Members of the medical staff (all sub-specialties, medical residents and students)
  • Lecture from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
  • This is a CME Accredited Program

April 2023
Joao A C Lima, MD, MBA
Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine

March 2023
Larry Allen, MD, MHS

Associate Head, Clinical Affairs, Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine

February 2023
Laxmi Mehta, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA

Burnout: A Barrier to Clinician Well-being

January 2023
Eldrin F. Lewis, MD, MPH

Transforming the Care of Patients with Heart Failure Using Equity, Innovation and Patient-Centered Lenses

November 2022
Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, MACC

Bringing Down the Community Levels of LDL Cholesterol

October 2022
Mark Drazner, MD, MSc

Clinical Chief of Cardiology Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

September 2022
Jamieson Bourque, MD, MHS, FACC, FASNC

"INOCA: Quality of LIfe, Diagnostic and Treatment Challenges, and Impact of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction"

August 2022
Albert D. Sam II, MD, MMM, FACS
"Impact of an Office-Based Laboratory (OBL) on a Health System-Based Vascular Surgery Practice"

July 2022
Shashank S. Sinha, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA and Behnam N. Tehrani, MD, FSCAI

"A Standardized, Team-Based Approach to Cardiogenic Shock: Lessons Learned from the Inova Experience"

June 2022
Ana Barac, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA

"Cardiovascular Toxicities of Cancer Therapeutics: Definitions, Diagnosis and Management"

May 2022
Navin Kapur, MD, FAHA, FACC, FSCAI
"Ventricular Unloading in Acute Myocardial Infarction: State of the Art and Future Directions"

April 2022
Mintu P. Turakhia, MD, MAS

"Digital Health: Moving Past the Hype Cycle"

March 2022
Maria Rosa Costanzo, MD, FAHA, FACC, FESC, FHFSA

"Sleep Apnea: Pathophysiology, Types and Cardiovascular Consequences"

February 2022
Erin D. Michos, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FASE, FASPC

Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology in the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

"Female-Specific Factors That Enhance Women's Cardiovascular Risk Across the Lifespan"

January 2022
Garima Sharma, MD, FACC 

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Vice Chair for Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine
Director of Cardio-Obstetrics
Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"How Can We Improve Maternal Cardiovascular Health?"

December 2021
Quinn Capers IV, MD, FACC, FSCAI 

Rody P. Cox Professor of Internal Medicine (Cardiology) 
Associate Dean of Faculty Diversity 
UT Southwestern School of Medicine 
Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 
Department of Internal Medicine 
UT Southwestern Medical Center 

"The Ultimate "Anti-Racism Statement" That Medicine Can Make Is to Diversify Our Ranks" 

November 2021
Douglas L. Mann, MD

Lewin Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor of Medicine
Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine 

"Heart Failure with a Recovered Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Mechanisms, Models and Management" 

October 2021
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA, FACP 

The Mary and Gordon Cain Chair and Professor of Medicine
Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development
Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research
Assoc. Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Vice-Chair of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Medicine Chief, DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston TX 
Immediate Past President, Heart Failure Society of America
Senior Associate Editor, Circulation 

"Update in Definition, Classification and Treatment of Heart Failure" 

September 2021
Sunil V. Rao, MD

Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Section Chief, Cardiology
Durham VA Medical Center 

"Improving the Safety of PCI: Tribulations, Trials, Transfusions and Twitter" 

August 2021
Barry Greenberg, MD, 

Distinguished Professor of Medicine, 
Director, Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program,
University of California, San Diego

“Struggling To Get Out of the Middle - Managing Patients with HFmrEF”

July 2021
Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA
Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center
Chief, UCLA Division of Cardiology (Interim)

"Improving Quality of Care and Outcomes for Heart Failure"

June 2021
Julia Grapsa MD, PhD, FESC, FAHA, FACC

Consultant Cardiologist, Valvular Heart Disease and Imaging,
Guys and St Thomas NHS Hospitals Trust, London, United Kingdom
Associate Professor, Kings College University
Editor in Chief, JACC Case Reports
Secretary/Treasurer – ESC Council on Valvular Heart Disease

"Imaging in Structural Interventions: Mitral and Tricuspid"

May 2021
Christopher J. White, MD, MACC, MSCAI, FAHA, FESC, FACP

Professor and Chair of Medicine and Cardiology
Medical Director, Value-Based Care
System Chair for Cardiovascular Diseases
Ochsner Medical Center

"Cardiovascular Value-Based Care"

April 2021
Anthony N. DeMaria, MD

Judith and Jack White Chair in Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
Founding Director, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center
UC San Diego Healthcare

"Limitations of Clinical Trials"

March 2021
E. Magnus Ohman, MD, FRCPI, FESC, FACC, FSCAI
Professor of Medicine
The Kent and Siri Rawson Director, Duke Program for Advanced Coronary Disease
Associate Director, Duke Heart Center, Duke University Medical Center

"Myocardial Infarction Cardiogenic Shock in 2021: How Can We Improve Outcomes?"
 

February 2021
Robert Harrington, MD
Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor and Chairman,
Department of Medicine
Stanford University

"Digital Medicine: What We Need to Teach in Training Programs"

January 2021
Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP, FESC, FAHA, MSCAI
Mount Sinai Professor in Cardiovascular Clinical Research and Outcomes,
Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

"P2Y12 Monotherapy After PCI: Review of Current Data"

December 2020
Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, MSc, FRCP
William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Executive Director, Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

"The Promise of Myocardial Recovery in Advanced Heart Failure: A Pipe Dream"

November 2020
JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, FACC, FHFSA
Professor of Medicine
Director, Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation
Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute

"New Devices for Heart Failure"

October 2020
James de Lemos, MD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Sweetheart Ball-Kern Wildenthal Chair in Cardiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

"Screening the Population for Cardiovascular Disease Using Genetics, Imaging and Biomarkers: Is "Precision Prevention" Becoming a Reality?"

September 2020
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA
Vice Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, Magerstadt Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine;
Associate Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Northwestern Memorial Hospital

"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Racism: Lessons Learned from the Summer of 2020 and What Everyone Needs to Know"

August 2020
Kenneth W. Mahaffey, MD
Medical Director, Eastern Region
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular
Inova Alexandria Hospital

"The COVID-19 Coagulopathy"

July 2020
Anthony Comerota, MD, FACS, FACC
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Dean, Clinical Research, School of Medicine, Stanford University
Vice Chair, Clinical Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
Director, Stanford Center for Clinical Research

"The Project Baseline Health Study: Building a Science Platform and a Participant Community"

June 2020
Christopher Kramer, MD
George A. Beller, MD/Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Chief, Cardiovascular Division
University of Virginia Health System

"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Novel Predictors of Prognosis"

March 2020
Richard F. Neville, MD, DFSVS
Associate Director, Inova Schar Heart and Vascular
System Director, Vascular Services
Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery

"Evolution in the Management of CLI: Charles Darwin Would Be Proud"

February 2020
G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA
Professor of Medicine, (Cardiology) University of Colorado AMC
Director, Section of Pharmacogenomics, CU-CVI
President and CEO, ARCA Biopharma

"Next Generation Anti-adrenergic Therapy of Heart Failure"

January 2020
Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine, with Tenure
Chief, Heart Failure Section, Division of Cardiology
Fellowship Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

"Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure in 2020: How Do We Get There?"

December 2019
Ann Marie Navar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Director of Innovations, Duke Clinical Research Institute

"Good Science is Not Enough: How Patient Fears and Other Barriers Threaten Disease Prevention"

November 2019
Carmelo Milano, MD
Chief, Section of Adult Cardiac Surgery
Surgical Director for LVAD Program
Professor of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine

"Advances and Challenges with Durable LVAD Support"

October 2019
Melany Atkins, MD
Director of Cardiac Imaging, Fairfax Radiological Consultants
Co-Medical Director, Fairfax MRI Center
"Integration of advanced cardiac imaging techniques into routine clinical practice: Cardiac CT and MRI update"

September 2019
Mariell Jessup, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC
Chief Science and Medical Officer, American Heart Association
"Do We Need Clinical Practice Guidelines Anymore?"

August 2019
Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH
Fred Cobb Distinguished Professor of Medicine in Cardiology, Duke Clinical Research Institute
"Can Technology and Big Data Fundamentally Change Clinical Research and Practice?"

July 2019
Mitchell Psotka, MD, PhD
Director Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Center, Divisions of Heart Failure, Transplant, and Pulmonary Hypertension; Associate Director of Heart Failure Research and Heart Failure Outreach; Member, Inova Medical Group
"Come Together: How We Can All Better Help Our Patients with Heart Failure"

June 2019
Wayne Batchelor, MD, MHS, FACC, FSCAI
Director of Inova Interventional Heart Program; Director of Interventional Heart Disease Research, Education, and Innovation, Inova Schar Heart and Vascular
"The Decade’s Top 5 Advances in Catheter-based Interventions for Structural Heart Disease and How they Impact Inova Schar Heart and Vascular"

May 2019
Eldrin F. Lewis, MD, MPH
Director, Cardiovascular Clerkships and STARS Research Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Centering the Patient in the Optimization of Meaningful Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure"

April 2019
Daniel B. Mark, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University School of Medicine
"The Art of Medicine: A Modern Reinterpretation for the Era of Guidelines, Large Clinical Trials and Social Media"

March 2019
Randall C. Starling, MD
Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine; President, Heart Failure Society of America
"Advanced Heart Failure: Challenges and Options for Care"

February 2019
Michel G. Khouri, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
"Imaging-based Screening for Cardiovascular Disease in Cancer Patients"

January 2019
Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM
Yale New Haven Hospital
"Learning From Every Click: The Future of the Learning Healthcare System"

December 2018
Marc Wish, MD, FACC, FHRS
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

November 2018
Charles Murphy MD, CPPS
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

October 2018
Robert Townsend Cole, MD, FHFSA
Emory University

September 2018
Alexander G. Truesdell, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FSVM
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

August 2018
Lauren Cooper, MD, MHS, FACC, FHFSA
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

July 2018
William T. Abraham, MD, FACP, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FRCP
The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center

June 2018
Douglas L. Packer, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester

May 2018
Dr. Kelly C. Epps
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

April 2018
Dr. Matthew Sherwood
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

March 2018
Dr. Behnam Tehrani
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

February 2018
C. Michael Valentine, MD, FACC
American College of Cardiology; Stroobants Cardiovascular Center; Centra Medical Group

January 2018
James E. Tcheng, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FESC
Duke University School of Medicine

November 2017
Joseph Rogers, MD
Department of Medicine, Duke University

August 2017
Melissa A. Daubert, MD FACC, FASE, FSCCT
Duke University Medical Center, Duke Clinical Research Institute

June 2017
Douglas L. Packer, MD

Mayo Clinic Rochester

May 2017
James Januzzi, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Baim Institute for Clinical Research

April 2017

  • Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH
    Duke Clinical Research Institute
  • Fred Cobb MD
    Duke University Medical Center

March 2017
Shahram Yazdani, MD FACC, FSCAI

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

February 2017
Vasken Dilsizian, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine; University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore

January 2017
Ray Herschberger, MD

The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center

September 2016
Daniel Burkhoff, MD, PhD

Cardiovascular Research Foundation

August 2016
Robert Roberts, MD, FRCPC, FRSM, MACC, FAHA, FESC, FRSC, LLD (Hon.)

International Society Cardiovascular Translational Research (ISCTR)

July 2016
Joshua M. Hare, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami

June 2016
Richard Neville, MD, FACS

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

May 2016
J. Kevin Harrison, MD

Duke Center for Structural Heart Disease

April 2016
Christopher deFilippi, MD, FACC

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular; Virginia Commonwealth University

March 2016
Steven D. Nathan, MD, FCCP

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

February 2016
Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Stony Brook University

January 2016
Myron Weisfeldt, MD

Johns Hopkins University