Milind Desai MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Milind Desai, MD, MBA, is the Vice-Chair of Education and CME at the Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic and Director of Clinical Operations of the Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. He has a joint appointment in the Diagnostic (Imaging) Institute and is the co-director of Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratories (Cardiac CT and MRI). He is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and holds the Haslam Family Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine. He is also a Visiting Honorary Professor at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Dr. Desai is the Director of the Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, the Medical Director of the Center for Aortic Diseases, and an integral part of the Center for Valvular Heart Disease. He is an expert in multimodality cardiovascular imaging, having achieved the highest level of proficiency in all imaging modalities, including cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. In addition, he serves on multiple Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute councils, including the Executive Council and Research Councils. In addition, he serves on the Cleveland Clinic Research Compliance Committee and is very active with the Philanthropy Institute.