SGLT-2 Inhibitors - Another Piece of the Puzzle in Heart Failure

Prof Scott D Solomon is the Edward D Frohlich Distinguished Chair at Harvard Medical School, Director of Noninvasive Cardiology and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research group has played a leading role in clinical trials in heart failure, hypertension and myocardial infarction. 

He received his AB from Williams College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. 

Prof John McMurray is Professor of Medical Cardiology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow, and honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. A graduate of Manchester University, Prof McMurray completed postgraduate research at the University of Dundee.

Prof McMurray is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association as well as the medical Royal Colleges in Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and UK Academy of Medical Sciences.

Prof Carolyn Lam is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiology and Director of Women's Heart Health at the National Heart Centre Singapore, having pioneered the first Women’s Heart Clinic in Singapore. Prof Lam is a world-renowned specialist in heart failure (particularly heart failure with preserved ejection fraction [HFpEF]). Her work in the PARAGON-HF and EMPEROR-Preserved trials led to the first FDA-approved treatment for HFpEF and the first robustly positive clinical outcomes trial in HFpEF to-date.

Dr Vaduganathan is a Cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is co-director of the Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a co-chair of a Heart Failure Collaboratory committee focused on improving future clinical trials in heart failure, and serves on the planning committee of the Global CardioVascular Clinical Trialists Forum. He is a Section Editor of the Fellows-in-Training / Early Career section of JACC, Associate Editor of JACC Heart Failure, and serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Heart Failure. His research focuses on drug development, clinical trials, and implementation of cardio-renal-metabolic therapies, and he has authored or co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed publications. He participates on study leadership and on committees of ongoing advanced-phase trials in cardiometabolic medicine and heart failure.…