Heart failure management in Patients with T2D

Dr. Nancy M. Albert is Associate Chief Nursing Officer—Nursing Research and Innovation, Cleveland Clinic health system and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in heart failure—Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Albert is a leader, Research Scientist, advanced Practice Nurse in a heart failure clinic, Consultant and Educator. She has 340 peer reviewed health care journal publications, over 18 book chapters and she is editor of 2016 book, Building and Sustaining a Hospital-Based Nursing Research Program. Dr. Albert volunteers for many health care organizations and presents locally, nationally and internationally on cardiovascular (heart failure), research and innovation themes.

Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod is a Cardiologist, Director of Cardiometabolic Research and Co-Director of the Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dr. Kosiborod is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of diabetes and CVD, cardiometabolic and cardiorenal syndromes as well as quality of care and outcomes. He has authored and co-authored over 220 peer reviewed publications, including scientific statements and position documents. He is involved in the leadership of multiple clinical trials and multi-center registries and is currently the principal investigator of several investigator-initiated, multicenter trials in diabetes and CVD.