Dr. Javed Butler is President of the Baylor Scott & White Research Institute and Senior Vice President of Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas, Texas, where he holds the Maxwell A. and Gayle H. Clampitt Endowed Chair. He is also Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Mississippi.

Dr. Butler is board certified in cardiovascular medicine and in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. His research focuses on clinical trials in heart failure, and he has authored more than 1,500 peer-reviewed publications. He has served on national committees for the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the National Institutes of Health and the Heart Failure Society of America, and on the editorial boards of several leading cardiovascular journals.

He previously led the Department of Medicine at the University of Mississippi, directed the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and co-directed the Heart Institute at Stony Brook University, directed heart failure research at Emory University, and directed the heart and heart-lung transplant programs at Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Butler earned his medical degree from Aga Khan University and completed his residency at Yale University, cardiology and advanced heart failure and transplant fellowships at Vanderbilt University, and a cardiac imaging fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He also holds an MPH from Harvard and an MBA from Emory University. His honours include the American College of Cardiology’s Simon Dack Award and the American Heart Association’s Time, Feeling, and Focus Award.