Dr Dipti Itchhaporia, an interventional cardiologist, holds the Eric & Sheila Samson Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Health and serves as the director of disease management for the Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute. Additionally, she is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a Past President of the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

Dr Itchhaporia completed her residency in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. She then joined the General Medicine Faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) but eventually pursued a cardiology fellowship at Georgetown University and an interventional cardiology fellowship at Stanford University. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, and an honorary member of the British Cardiovascular Society.