Dr. Ganz is the Chief of Cardiology and the Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in Vascular Research at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He is also the Maurice Eliaser Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ganz has been a pioneer and a leader in translational and clinical cardiovascular research. His laboratory first published on vascular endothelial function in the state of health and on endothelial dysfunction in atherosclerosis in humans (N Engl J Med 1986; 315:1046-1051). He has been a leader in the field of human endothelial biology ever since. Currently, Dr. Ganz is making important discoveries in another field - the proteomics of cardiovascular diseases - using modified aptamers as binding reagents to quantify proteins in blood (JAMA 2016;315:2532-2541) and in other matrixes (e.g. urine). Dr. Ganz has authored nearly 250 peer-reviewed articles, many widely cited and published in the top tier medical journals. He has served on steering committees of numerous clinical trials. Many trainees who worked in Dr. Ganz’s laboratory have gone onto key leadership positions in academic medicine nationally and internationally. Dr. Ganz received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, completed his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and cardiovascular fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He spent 25 years directing cardiovascular research in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, prior to arriving to the University of California, San Francisco in 2008.