Javed Butler

Javed Butler is President of the Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Dallas, TX, and was previously the Patrick H. Lehan Chair of Cardiovascular Research, Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS. Prior to joining the University of Mississippi, he was Charles A. Gargano Professor, Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and co-Director of the Stony Brook University Heart Institute, NY, USA. Dr. Butler served as Director for Heart Failure Research at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, and prior to this served as the director of the heart and heart-lung transplant programs at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. He also serves on the FDA Cardio-Renal Advisory Committee and on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed cardiovascular journals. Dr. Butler has authored over 650 peer-reviewed publications, and has been listed in Best Doctors in America numerous times.