Uri Elkayam MD

Dr. Uri Elkayam is a professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the maternal cardiology program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Elkayam has been a member of the faculty of the division of cardiology since 1981 and his previous positions included chief of cardiology at USC University Hospital and director of the heart failure program. He is a past member of the executive council of the Heart Failure Society of America.

Dr Elkayam's research and clinical interests are congestive heart failure, heart disease and pregnancy, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and cardiovascular pharmacology. He has been involved in more than 100 self-initiated, NIH, and industry-funded research projects and has served in a leading position in numerous national and international multicenter studies.

He is an associate editor of the journal JACC Advances and an editorial consultant for the journal JACC Heart Failure. Dr. Elkayam is the author or co-author of over 250 publications and over 90 book chapters and the editor of 4 editions of the textbook “Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy”.

He has been the director of the annual Los Angeles heart failure symposium for the last 27 years, the founder and chairman of the International Congress on Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy, and the director of an annual national symposium on Cardio Obstetrics.

Dr. Elkayam was the recipient of the 2021 American College of Cardiology Bernadine Healy Leadership in Women's Cardiovascular Disease Distinguished Award.