Conference Keynote Speaker
Dr. K. Lance Gould
K. Lance Gould, M.D. is a professor of cardiovascular medicine at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; and, is the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished University Chair in Heart Disease at UTHealth. Gould is this year’s recipient of the American College of Cardiology’s Distinguished Scientist Award-Translation Domain in honor of his contributions to the cardiovascular profession.
Gould first began working at UTHealth in 1979 as professor and director of the division of cardiology, and was a founding director of the Positron Diagnostic and Research Center. He stepped aside from administrative duties in 1987 to focus clinically and scientifically on PET imaging and quantitative coronary arteriography for identifying segmental and diffuse coronary artery disease, measuring its severity and reversing it by vigorous risk factor modification.
Gould has received various awards throughout his career. He was selected as the Hal Anger Memorial Plenary Lecture for the Society of Nuclear Medicine annual meetings in June 2017. Other honors include the International George von Hevesy Prize for Research in 1978, the George E. Brown Memorial Lectureship of the American Heart Association in 1990, the Simon Dack Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Journals of the American College of Cardiology in 2011 and the UT Presidential Scholar Award in 2009. Gould has been honored nationally by membership in the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology. He served 11 years as an associate editor of Circulation and is currently on the editorial boards of major cardiovascular journals. He is past chairman of the Council on Circulation of the American Heart Association, and past president of the Houston Cardiology Society.
Panel of Speakers
Salman Arain, M.D., Houston, Texas
Cardiovascular Disease Specialist
Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center
Assistant Professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Peter Ermis, M.D., Houston, Texas
Pediatric Cardiologist
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children’s Hospital
K. Lance Gould, M.D., Houston, Texas
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ramesh Hariharan, M.D., Houston, Texas
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Professor of Medicine at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center
Chief of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Section for UT Health
Raymond Stainback, M.D., Houston, Texas
Section Chief, Noninvasive Cardiology
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
David Paniagua, M.D., Houston, Texas
Cardiologist
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Michael E. DeBakey Veternas Affairs Medical Center
Neil E. Strickman, M.D., Houston, Texas
Interventional Cardiology
Clinical Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Co Chairman of Endovascular PV Department at Texas Heart Institute/Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Corpus Christi Speakers
Thomas Alexander, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Interventional Cardiologist
Shamim Badruddin-Mawji, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Cardiologist
Lawrence Brenner, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Interventional Cardiologist
Srikanth Damaraju, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Interventional Cardiologist
Muhammed Khan, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Pediatric Interventional Cardiologist
Salim Surani, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Pulmonologist
Travis Taylor, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Interventional Cardiologist
Stephen Turner, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Cardiologist
Jaime D. Ungerleider, MSW-LCSW, Ph.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Psychotherapist
Ross Ungerleider, M.D., Corpus Christi, Texas
Cardiothoracic Surgery