Historical CVRI Visiting Professors
Historical CVRI Burton E. Sobel Visiting Professors:
| Year | Name | Affiliation | Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Theodore E. Warkentin, MD | McMaster University | Spectrum of Platelet-Activating Anti-PF4 Disorders |
| 2023 | Clyde W. Yancy, MD | Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine | Health Equity: The Quest Continues |
| 2021 | Judith S. Hochman, MD | NYU Langone Health, NYU-HHC Clinical and Translational Science Institute | The Role of Revascularization in SIHD: A Deep Dive into ISCHEMIA |
| 2020 | Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD | Mount Sinai Medical Hospital | The Evolving Science of Health: Imaging, Genetics and Behavior |
2019 | Paul M. Ridker, MD | Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital | 100 Years from CRP to Anti-Cytokine Therapy for Atherosclerosis: A History of Discovery |
| 2017 | David C. Goff, Jr, MD, PhD | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | Eliminating Cardiovascular Disparities through Community-Engaged Research: A thought exercise |
| 2017 | Robert A. Harrington, MD | Stanford University | Education and Research in an Era of Quality, Big Data, Precision Medicine, and Digital Health |
| 2016 | Christine Seidman, MD | Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital | Cardiomyopathies: Mutations, mechanisms, and therapeutics |
| 2015 | Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Systems Pathobiology and Personalized Cardiovascular Medicine |
Historical CVRI Norman R. Alpert Visiting Professors:
| Year | Name | Affiliation | Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|
2024 *rescheduled to 2026 | Kent L. Thornburg, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University | The transgenerational drivers of cardiovascular disease |
| 2023 | James Spudich, PhD | Stanford University School of Medicine | Myosin, The Exquisite Nanomachine: Basic Mechanisms to Therapies |
2019 | Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD | Northwestern University | Modifiers of Myopathy |
| 2016 | W. Jonathan Lederer, PhD | University of Maryland | Ca2+ Signaling in Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes and Mitochondria |
| 2015 | Leslie A. Leinwand, PhD | University of Colorado at Boulder | Translating Python Biology to the Mammalian Heart (Lessons in Cardiac Hypertrophy) |
Historical CVRI Rising Star Visiting Professors:
| Year | Name | Affiliation | Seminar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Shanna Hamilton, PhD | Universitiy of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson | Finding new molecular targets to treat calcium-dependent arrhythmias |
| 2024 *rescheduled to 2026 | Danica Slavish, PhD | University of North Texas | Multidimensional sleep health and cardiometabolic risk: The importance of tracking naturalistic sleep |
| 2023 | Antentor O. Hintorn, Jr, PhD | Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences | The Role of MICOS in Mitochondrial Integrity: Insights from Cardiac, Skeletal Muscle, and Kidney Function |
| 2022 | Kellie Machlus, PhD | Boston Children's Hospital | Novel Mechanisms Regulating Megakaryocyte Differentiation and Platelet Production |
| 2021 | Nadia R. Sutton, MD, MPH | University of Michigan | From Understanding to Mitigating the Progression of Vascular Aging |
| 2020 | Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD | Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Dietary Patterns and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease |
2019 | Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH | Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital | Quantitative PET/CT Imaging for Diagnosis and Management of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction |
| 2017 | Benjamin Prosser, PhD | Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | Inotropy via Cytoskeletal Regulation |
Historical CVRI Department Co-Sponsored Visiting Professors:
| Year | Host Department/ Division | Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Hem/Onc | Sadiya S. Khan, MD | Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine |
| 2025 | Cardiology | Markus Meyer, MD | Universty of Minnesota Medical School |
| 2025 | Pharmacology | Martin Lauritzen, MD | University of Copenhagen |
| 2025 | Hem/Onc | Geoffrey D. Barnes, MD | University of Michigan |
| 2025 | Pharmacology | Ravi L. Rungta, PhD | University of Montreal |
| 2024 | Cardiology | William L. Lombardi, MD | University of Washington Medical Center |
| 2024 | Pharmacology | Colin G. Nichols, PhD | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis |
| 2024 | Pharmacology | Patrick J. Drew, PhD | Pennsylvania State University |
| 2023 | Pharmacology | Baptiste Lacoste, PhD | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |
| 2023 | Pharmacology | Anusha Mishra, PHD | Knight Cardiovascular Research Institute, Oregon Health and Science University |
| 2023 | Pharmacology | Annarita Di Lorenzo, PhD | Weill Cornell Medical College |
| 2021 | OBGYN | Janet Rich-Edwards SC.D, MPH | Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital |
| 2019 | Biochemistry | Alisa S. Wolberg, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2019 | Pharmacology | Mohamed Trebak, PhD | Penn State Cancer Institute |
| 2019 | Cardiology | Jeffrey L. Carson, MD | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
| 2019 | Pharmacology | Geoffrey S. Pitt, MD, PhD | Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College |
2019 | Cardiology | Scott D. Solomon, MD | Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital |
| 2018 | Cardiology | Sunil Rao, MD | Duke University School of Medicine |
| 2018 | Cardiology | Matthew T. Roe, MD, MHS | Duke University School of Medicine |
| 2018 | OBGYN | Kirk P. Conrad, MD | University of Florida College of Medicine |
| 2018 | Pharmacology | Joanna Wardlaw, MD | University of Edinburgh |