Professor Dr. Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD is Distinguished Clinical and Research Physician and is immediate past Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute and tenured Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where he is past Chief of Cardiology. He is Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm Society, and Master of the American College of Physicians. He served as a recent past Chair, Task Force on Practice Guidelines for the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology. He is Past President of the Western States Affiliate, the American Heart Association. He has published over 700 peer-reviewed and invited articles and book chapters and 600 abstracts presented at national and international meetings. His current interests include cardiovascular genetics, pharmacogenetics, metabolomics, other cardiovascular risk factors, and clinical intervention trials.