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Lee R. Goldberg, MD, MPH, FACC is currently Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and serves as Chief of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Section in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is Vice Chair of Medicine for Informatics is responsible for the implementation and optimization of the electronic medical record, coordinating quality and operational data across the Department of Medicine as well as spearheading clinician wellness initiatives.
Goldberg earned his medical degree cum laude from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania followed by fellowships in cardiovascular disease, and advanced heart failure and transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He received his Master of Public Health Degree concentrating in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Goldberg's research has focused on heart failure disease management, remote monitoring of heart failure patients, the interplay between sleep and cardiovascular disease, telemedicine innovations as well leveraging large data to improve patient outcomes and clinician effectiveness. He was the Principal Investigator of an AHRQ sponsored RO1 grant evaluating the impact of different technology models on heart failure disease management and a Co-PI of an NIH sponsored RO1 grant studying behavioral economics as part of heart failure remote monitoring.
He has served in several roles within the ACC, including past Chair of the Member Section Steering Committee and past Chair of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Leadership Council. He is a past member of the Health Information Technology Task Force, Digital Steering Committee, Cardiovascular Management Council, HeartPAC Executive Committee and Lifelong Learning Committee. He currently is serving on the Audit and Compliance Committee, Board of Trustees Task Force on Clinician Well-Being and is deputy editor for the ACC Collaborative Maintenance Pathway for Advanced Heart Failure Evaluative Question Writing Committee.

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Is a cardiac electrophysiologist focused on providing exceptional care for patients battling
cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrhythmias.
Dr. Vidal has a singular vision of providing compassionate care and his expertise in catheter ablation and cardiac deviceimplantation makes him an invaluable resource for patients.
In addition to being a dedicated physician, he is also an educator and researcher who is passionate about empowering patients and shaping the future of cardiac electrophysiology.
Dr. Vidal has contributed to numerous publications and has presented at major conferences such as the Heart Rhythm Society,
American College of Cardiology/World Congress of Cardiology, and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society.
Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, Dr. Vidal earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the prestigious University of the Republic. Fueled by his passion for cardiac electrophysiology, he then pursued further training during his residency, including an external rotation at the esteemed Cardiac Electrophysiology Service at the Clinical University Hospital in Valencia, Spain.
This experience, combined with his European Heart Rhythm Association certifications, set the foundation for his career in cardiac electrophysiology and cardiac devices.
Furthermore, Dr. Vidal served as a cardiac electrophysiology fellow at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he is currently pursuing a master’s degree in experimental medicine. He serves as an assistant professor of clinical cardiac electrophysiology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
Education
2011Medical SchoolUniversity of the Republic Uruguay
2015ResidencyUniversidad de al Republica
2021FellowshipMcGill University School of Medicine

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Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiology
Elkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Health
Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
William A. Zoghbi, a renowned cardiology, echocardiography and cardiac imaging expert, has developed noninvasive heart function and valve disorder evaluation techniques. As a result, Dr. Zoghbi has overseen national and international heart valve evaluation guideline development.
He built his reputation on his ischemic heart disease, myocardial function and hibernation research, as well as his development of echocardiographic techniques to evaluate valvular dynamics and measure valvular regurgitation. Dr. Zoghbi has authored more than 300 publications and lectured at every major cardiology conference worldwide.
Dr. Zoghbi has served:
The American College of Cardiology (ACC); president in 2012, honored as a master in 2013 and Board of Trustee member from 2002 to 2015
The American Heart Association
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE); president in 2008
The World Heart Federation; board member from 2014 to 2015 and Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce co-chair
Since 2008, Dr. Zoghbi’s professional activities have included:
Implementing the ACC’s international mission and working with many international chapters he helped build
Representing the ACC and the global cardiovascular community at the United Nations and World Health Organization, advocating for a 25 percent reduction of the world’s noncommunicable disease mortality rate by 2025, known as the 25 x 25 Initiative
Focusing on patient-centered care and spearheading the CardioSmart.org relaunch while ACC president
Dr. Zoghbi’s scholarly contributions include service as:
A senior editor of JACC Cardiovascular Imaging
Global health section editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
An editorial board member of Global Heart
Former associate editor of Circulation
A dedicated educator, Dr. Zoghbi has trained more than 100 cardiology fellows in advanced cardiovascular imaging. In 2004, he received the American Society of Echocardiography’s Richard Popp Excellence in Teaching Award. He also co-chaired the American College of Cardiology committee responsible for a monograph advising cardiovascular imaging training best practices.
In 2005, Dr. Zoghbi joined the Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group following his 20-year tenure at Baylor College of Medicine, where he was the John S. Dunn Professor of Medicine and served as Houston Methodist’s echocardiography laboratory director. In 2005, he established Houston Methodist’s Cardiovascular Imaging Institute, integrating all cardiovascular imaging modalities to enhance patient care, education and research. He became the William L. Winters Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Imaging in 2005. In 2016, Dr. Zoghbi was appointed chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Houston Methodist and holds the Elkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiology, established in his honor.
Research interests
Dr. Zoghbi´s research focuses on cardiovascular imaging, emphasizing echocardiography. He has developed methods for evaluation of valvular function, ventricular function quantitation and myocardial viability detection in patients with ischemic ventricular dysfunction. More recently, Dr. Zoghbi has collaborated with University of Houston mathematicians and led his laboratory’s efforts to better understand cardiac valve structure and function and improve quantitation of artificial valve function using in vitro modeling and multimodality imaging.