Lars H Lund MD, PhD

Lars H Lund, MD PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, and Senior Consultant in the Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital. He trained in medicine, cardiology and heart failure at Duke University and Columbia University. His expertise is HF big data and registry-based comparative outcomes studies and pragmatic trials. He is active in programs to improve utilization of existing evidence based interventions in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, as well as in novel interventions and pragmatic trials of new use applications of existing drugs in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. He has extensive experience and leadership positions in heart failure registries: He is Associate Director of the Swedish Heart Failure Registry (SwedeHF) Research Program; a board member of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) and a member of the working group for the HFA European Heart Failure Registry of the ESC Observational Research Program (EORP); Associate Director the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Registry, and on the Steering Committee of the ISHLT International Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support (IMACS). He is on steering committees for several trials and observational studies. He is or has been Associate Editor for and on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals including Circulation, European Journal of Heart Failure and Journal of Cardiac Failure. He has over 130 publications in peer reviewed journals, an H-index of 28, and one patent.