Akshay S. Desai, MD, MPH, FACC, FHFSA is the Director of the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program in the Cardiovascular Medicine Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). He divides his time between the clinical care of patients with advanced heart disease, including those with end-stage heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support or cardiac transplantation, and clinical research, with an emphasis on the pathophysiology, pharmacologic treatment, and ambulatory management of patients with heart failure. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed medical literature and is active in both the conduct of clinical trials of novel therapies for patients with heart failure across the spectrum of ejection fraction and the design of innovative population-level strategies to reduce the burden of heart failure-associated morbidity and mortality. He is currently Deputy Editor for JACC: Heart Failure.