Past Lecturers
1st Annual Lecture: "In Memoriam K.T.H. Celebrating a Remarkable Woman"
- Speaker: Hasan Garan, MD
Dr. Hasan Garan served as the Director of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Program at Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, from 2001 until 2021. He is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, and a researcher in cardiac electrophysiology since its emergence as a young medical science approximately 40 years ago. During his tenure at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was the Co-Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory, he developed a canine myocardial infarction model to investigate cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms. With support from American Heart Association Established Investigator Award and later SCOR grant from NIH, he studied the underlying mechanisms of ischemic ventricular tachycardia in the animal laboratory with important contributions to our understanding of this common post-infarction arrhythmia. Clinically Dr. Garan’s experience in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiac arrhythmias spans the last 35 years. Starting in 2001 when he joined Columbia University Medical Center, he gradually built a very active, high volume Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Service dedicated to the treatment of a wide spectrum of cardiac arrhythmias using the most advanced techniques. At Columbia, Dr. Garan continued his research in the investigation of the mechanisms and treatment techniques of cardiac arrhythmias in the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory. His team has investigated the underlying mechanisms of the most common human arrhythmia, atriaI fibrillation and atypical atrial flutter by sophisticated techniques of signal analysis using data acquired in patients undergoing catheter mapping and ablation in the laboratory.
2nd Annual Lecture: “Getting to the Heart of Mentorship: Lessons learned from an exemplar Nurse Scientist, Clinician, Mentor, and Friend”
- Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD, MSc, RN, FAAN, FAHA, FHFSA
Ruth Masterson Creber is a professor at Columbia University School of Nursing with tenure. Masterson Creber's research focuses on improving quality of life for patients with cardiac conditions across the disease continuum and pioneering innovative interventions for the delivery of health care. Her interprofessional program of research is grounded in nursing science, epidemiology, and health informatics and is rapidly growing and having an impact on advancing health quality for vulnerable patients across the lifespan and around the world. She has developed digital health tools to support symptom monitoring for patients with heart failure to provide real-time personal health information back to patients. She is also leading the evaluation of a mobile integrated health intervention for patients with heart failure to provide evidence to support a novel healthcare delivery service using community paramedics and facilitated telemedicine with emergency medicine teams. Masterson Creber is also leading global, pragmatic, cardiac clinical trials across over seventy hospitals in Europe, Asia, North and South America and Australia to evaluate the impact of coronary bypass graft surgery on patient's quality of life, symptoms and cognition.
Masterson Creber received her BA and BSN from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and School of Arts and Sciences, an MSc from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and her Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Columbia University School of Nursing. Prior to joining Columbia University, she served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences in the Division of Health Informatics, and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine (2018-2022). Since completing her training, her program of research has been funded by multiple federal agencies including PCORI, NINR, NHLBI, NINDS, NIA, NICHD and Fogarty Institute. Masterson Creber has also published over 95 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.
