Speakers
Prof. Javed Butler
University of Mississippi Medical Center, United States
Prof. Javed Butler is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at University of Mississippi Medical Center.
He completed his undergraduate medical training at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale University where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. He then completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at Vanderbilt University and supplemented his training with advanced fellowships in heart failure/transplant at Vanderbilt University and cardiac imaging training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.
He serves on the Board of the National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention and the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA). He is the Deputy Chief Science Officer of the American Heart Association (AHA), a Guidelines Committee member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and a member of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). He has authored more than 600 peer-reviewed publications, and is the second author of the EMPEROR-Preserved study and one of the leading authors of the EMPEROR-Reduced study.
His research interests include risk factors and prediction of outcomes related to development of incident heart failure, and adverse outcomes among those with manifest heart failure. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology. Prof. Butler is the recipient of the Simon Dack Award given by the American College of Cardiology and the Time, Feeling, and Focus award given by the American Heart Association.