Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, serves as The Mount Sinai Medical Hospital as Physician-in-Chief, as well as, Director of Mount Sinai Heart Center.  Dr. Fuster is the General Director of the National Center for Cardiovascular Investigation or CNIC (equivalent to NHLBI) in Madrid, Spain.  Dr. Fuster has held innumerable positions including those of President of the American Heart Association, President of the World Heart Federation, member of the US National Academy of Medicine, member of the European Horizon 2020 Scientific Panel of Health, Council member of the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and President of the Training Program of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Fuster is an author on more than 1,000 scientific articles.  He was named Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nature Reviews in Cardiology and recently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  His research into the origin of cardiovascular events has contributed to improved treatment of heart attack patients.

His events include a Career Development in Academic Medicine Q&A, Case Presentations by Cardiology Fellows on Acute Coronary Syndromes, and a Medicine Grand Rounds program titled "The Evolving Science of Health: Imaging, Genetics and Behavior".  *These events are made possible by a generous gift from Martin Bloomfield, MD '60 to the CVRI.