Larner College of Medicine

Historical CVRI Visiting Professors

Historical CVRI Visiting Professors

Historical CVRI Burton E. Sobel Visiting Professors:

YearNameAffiliationSeminar
2025Theodore E. Warkentin, MDMcMaster UniversitySpectrum of Platelet-Activating Anti-PF4 Disorders
2023Clyde W. Yancy, MDNorthwestern University, Feinberg School of MedicineHealth Equity: The Quest Continues
2021Judith S. Hochman, MDNYU Langone Health, NYU-HHC Clinical and Translational Science InstituteThe Role of Revascularization in SIHD: A Deep Dive into ISCHEMIA
2020Valentin Fuster, MD, PhDMount Sinai Medical HospitalThe Evolving Science of Health: Imaging, Genetics and Behavior

2019

Paul M. Ridker, MDHarvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital100 Years from CRP to Anti-Cytokine Therapy for Atherosclerosis: A History of 
Discovery
2017David C. Goff, Jr, MD, PhDNational Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteEliminating Cardiovascular Disparities through Community-Engaged Research: A thought exercise
2017Robert A. Harrington, MDStanford UniversityEducation and Research in an Era of Quality, Big Data, Precision Medicine, and Digital Health 
2016Christine Seidman, MDHarvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's HospitalCardiomyopathies: Mutations, mechanisms, and therapeutics
2015Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhDBrigham and Women's Hospital Systems Pathobiology and Personalized Cardiovascular Medicine

Historical CVRI Norman R. Alpert Visiting Professors:

YearNameAffiliationSeminar

2024

*rescheduled to 2026

Kent L. Thornburg, PhDOregon Health & Science UniversityThe transgenerational drivers of cardiovascular disease
2023James Spudich, PhDStanford University School of MedicineMyosin, The Exquisite Nanomachine: Basic Mechanisms to Therapies

2019

Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhDNorthwestern UniversityModifiers of Myopathy
2016W. Jonathan Lederer, PhDUniversity of Maryland Ca2+ Signaling in Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes and Mitochondria
2015Leslie A. Leinwand, PhDUniversity of Colorado at BoulderTranslating Python Biology to the Mammalian Heart (Lessons in Cardiac Hypertrophy)

Historical CVRI Rising Star Visiting Professors:

YearNameAffiliationSeminar
2025Shanna Hamilton, PhDUniversitiy of Arizona College of Medicine TucsonFinding new molecular targets to treat calcium-dependent arrhythmias
2024
*rescheduled to 2026
Danica Slavish, PhDUniversity of North TexasMultidimensional sleep health and cardiometabolic risk: The importance of tracking naturalistic sleep
2023Antentor O. Hintorn, Jr, PhDVanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences The Role of MICOS in Mitochondrial Integrity: Insights from Cardiac, Skeletal Muscle, and Kidney Function
2022Kellie Machlus, PhDBoston Children's HospitalNovel Mechanisms Regulating Megakaryocyte Differentiation and Platelet Production
2021Nadia R. Sutton, MD, MPHUniversity of Michigan From Understanding to Mitigating the Progression of Vascular Aging
2020Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhDHarvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterDietary Patterns and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease

2019

Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPHHarvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's HospitalQuantitative PET/CT Imaging for Diagnosis and Management of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction
2017Benjamin Prosser, PhDPennsylvania Muscle Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaInotropy via Cytoskeletal Regulation

Historical CVRI Department Co-Sponsored Visiting Professors:

YearHost Department/ DivisionNameAffiliation
2026Hem/OncSadiya S. Khan, MDNorthwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
2025CardiologyMarkus Meyer, MDUniversty of Minnesota Medical School
2025PharmacologyMartin Lauritzen, MDUniversity of Copenhagen
2025Hem/OncGeoffrey D. Barnes, MDUniversity of Michigan
2025PharmacologyRavi L. Rungta, PhDUniversity of Montreal
2024CardiologyWilliam L. Lombardi, MDUniversity of Washington Medical Center
2024PharmacologyColin G. Nichols, PhDWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
2024PharmacologyPatrick J. Drew, PhDPennsylvania State University
2023PharmacologyBaptiste Lacoste, PhDOttawa Hospital Research Institute
2023PharmacologyAnusha Mishra, PHDKnight Cardiovascular Research Institute, Oregon Health and Science University
2023PharmacologyAnnarita Di Lorenzo, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College
2021OBGYNJanet Rich-Edwards SC.D, MPHHarvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital
2019BiochemistryAlisa S. Wolberg, PhDUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2019PharmacologyMohamed Trebak, PhDPenn State Cancer Institute
2019CardiologyJeffrey L. Carson, MDRutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
2019PharmacologyGeoffrey S. Pitt, MD, PhDCardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College

2019

CardiologyScott D. Solomon, MDHarvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital
2018CardiologySunil Rao, MDDuke University School of Medicine
2018CardiologyMatthew T. Roe, MD, MHSDuke University School of Medicine
2018OBGYNKirk P. Conrad, MDUniversity of Florida College of Medicine
2018PharmacologyJoanna Wardlaw, MDUniversity of Edinburgh