Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, is the President of the Research Institute and Senior Vice President for the Baylor Scott and White Health in Dallas, Texas. He holds the Maxwell A. and Gayle H. Clampitt Endowed Chair for research. He is also the Distinguished Professor of Medicine at University of Mississippi in Jackson, Mississippi. He received his medical degree from the Aga Khan University and then completed residency training at Yale University, cardiology fellowship and advanced heart failure and transplant fellowships at Vanderbilt University, and cardiac imaging fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital at the Harvard Medical School. He has completed Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University and Master of Business Administration from Emory University. Dr. Butler is board certified in cardiovascular medicine and 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 ACC, AHA, NIH, and the HFSA. He is the recipient of the Simon Dack Award by the ACC as well as the Time, Feeling, and Focus Award by the AHA. Dr. Butler has authored more than 1100 peer-reviewed publications. He serves on the editorial board of several peer reviewed cardiovascular journals.