Please join us for a Special Lecture hosted by the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center as we welcome Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, as a Visiting Professor.
Lunch will be provided. ![[Portrait of Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD]](/sites/default/files/styles/small_image/public/hossein_ardehali-1_1.jpg?itok=nnZgEEFc "Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD")
To ensure enough meals are present, please RSVP to Cara Deery, Outreach and Education Program Manager, Sr. (caradeery@arizona.edu).
Title of Talk: "Role of Iron in Cardiovascular Disease"
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 28th, 2024
Time: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: COM-T Room 5403
(where DOM Grand Rounds are held)
About the speaker:
Dr. Hossein Ardehali received medical and doctoral studies degrees from Vanderbilt University, and completed his medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is currently the Thomas D. Spies Professor of Cardiac Metabolism, a professor of medicine - cardiology, and pharmacology, and the director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at Northwestern University. He served as the director of the MD/PhD program at Northwestern until April 2023. He also has served as president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and is currently the deputy editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI). He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and has received several awards. His research focuses on the role of mitochondria and metabolism in cardiovascular disease, with a focus on the role of iron in this process. His lab has shown that a disruption in the mitochondrial iron leads to cardiomyopathy, and that hexokinase binding to the mitochondria plays determines the fate of glucose.