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Contributors
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Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor and Chairman
Department of Medicine
University of Mississippi
Jackson, MS
Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA is the Patrick H. Lehan Chair in Cardiovascular Research, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. He is also Professor of Physiology. Prior to joining the University of Mississippi, he was Charles A. Gargano Professor and Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Stony Brook University in New York. He had served as the Director for Heart Failure Research at Emory University and Director of the Heart and Heart-Lung Transplant programs at Vanderbilt University.
He completed residency training at Yale University, cardiology and advanced heart failure and transplant fellowships at Vanderbilt University, and a cardiac imaging fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital at the Harvard Medical School. He completed his Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University and Master in Business Administration from Emory University.
Dr. Butler is board-certified in advanced heart failure and transplant medicine. His research interests focus on clinical trials in patients with heart failure. He serves on several national committees for the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, and the Heart Failure Society of America. He is the recipient of the Simon Dack Award from the American College of Cardiology, as well as the Time, Feeling, and Focus Award from the American Heart Association.
Dr. Butler has authored more than 550 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed cardiovascular journals. He has been cited numerous times in America’s Best Doctors list.
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Biff F. Palmer, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Distinguished Teaching Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Biff F. Palmer, MD, is a tenured Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. He is board-certified in internal medicine and nephrology. Dr. Palmer received his medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He then went on to complete a research fellowship in the Department of Nephrology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and a clinical fellowship in the Division of Nephrology at UT Southwestern Medical Center-Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Palmer has authored more than 240 articles and chapters. In addition to his work as an author, Dr. Palmer has served as the Program Director for the Renal Fellowship Program and as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at UT Southwestern. He is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Nephrology and is on the editorial board of Clinical Nephrology, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and the American Journal of Kidney Disease. He served for six years on the nephrology subspecialty board for the American Board of Internal Medicine.
He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Regents Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas and the Parkland Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine Housestaff Outstanding Teacher Award. He is a member of the Southwestern Academy of Teachers and the University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine Academy of Health Science Education. He is designated as a Distinguished Teaching Professor by the University. -
Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, MACP, SFHM, FACC, FRCP (Lond)
Thomas and Mary Cesario Endowed Chair, Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Business, Public Health, Nursing Science, & Biomedical Engineering
Executive Director, Hospitalist Program
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA