AHSC Room 5403
Please join us for a special lecture on Wednesday, August 28th at 12:00 pm as we welcome Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, as a Visiting Professor. Lunch will be provided. 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, August 28th, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00
Location: AHS 5403
About the speaker:
Hossein Ardehali received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University, and completed his medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is currently Thomas D. Spies Professor of Cardiac metabolism, 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 has also served as the 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.