Global Summit on Heart Diseases and Therapeutics October 20-21, 2016 Chicago, Illinois, USA

Dalin Tang received his PhD from UW-Madison in 1988. He is Professor of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at WPI (since 1988). He was named John E. Sinclair Professor of Mathematics in 2003-2006. He received WPI Trustee’s research award, the highest honor for faculty research at WPI. He was elected Fellow of AHA in 2011, Fellow of ASME in 2016. His research interest is image-based modeling for ventricles and vulnerable plaques. He has received 29 grants including 3 NIH R01 grants and one NSF/NIGMS grant ($1.8M). He served on various NSF, NIH, and AHA panels. AE of PLOS One and BMEO

Cardiovascular Investigations, Cardiac Magnetic resonance, Medical Engineering, Cardiac Surgery, Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Allan Jaffe graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his house staff and Cardiology training at Washington University and continued there for 22 years rising to the rank of Professor of Medicine. At the Mayo Clinic he is Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Department and Professor and Chair of the Division of Core Clinical Laboratory Services in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He is an authority on biomarkers of cardiac injury, inflammation, hemodynamic disturbance, and coagulation. He is widely published and sits on most of the prestigious editorial boards and guideline committees in the Cardiology and Clinical Chemistry communities.

Coronary Heart Disease,Cardiac injury,Inflammatory Biomarkers,Acute coronary syndromes

Dr. Lerakis is a Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Imaging Sciences in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University. He is Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. He received his M.D. degree from the Medical School of Athens (Greece) in 1988. He continued on doing clinical research in Nuclear Cardiology in Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Subsequently, he did his Internal Medicine training in the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia from 1991 to 1994 and completed his Fellowship in Critical Care in Brown University from 1994 to 1995. He went on to complete his Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas from 1995 to 1998 and then did one year of Echocardiography Fellowship at Emory University from 1998 to 1999. After his Echocardiography Fellowship, he has stayed on as Faculty in the Division of Cardiology practicing clinical and non-invasive cardiology.

Non-invasive cardiology, Coronary Artery Disease, Endocarditis, Echocardiography, Transcatheter Valvular therapies of Structural and Valvular Heart Disease, Acute myocardial infarction

Dr. Cromwell received his MD degree from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA and completed postgraduate work in Lipid Disorders at the Washington University School of Medicine Lipid Research Center in St. Louis, MO. He is Chief of the Lipoprotein and Metabolic Disorders Institute, Discipline Director for Cardiovascular Disease at Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), and Adjunct Associate Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA. He has published over 25 book chapters and papers in journals including Lancet, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, and Journal of Clinical Lipidology.

Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Vascular Disease, Cardiology, Medical Research

Dr. Wang is a professor and the director of Department of Cardiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University,China. He has completed his MD and PhD from Tongji Medical University, China and postdoctoral training from Germany Heart Center of Technical University of Munich, Germany and Emory University, USA. Dr. Wang has published 40 peer-reviewed papers in highly impacted journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of 3 prestigious medical journals. He has been awarded NIH R01 and R21 grants in USA and the General Project Award and the Key Project Award from the National Natural Science Foundation in China.

Arrhythmia, Electrophysiology, Heart Failure Remodeling of Heart.