Milind Desai, MD MBA, is the Director of Clinical Operations of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine . He holds the Haslam Family Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has dual appointments in the Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine (Section of Cardiovascular Imaging) and Radiology. He is the Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Medical Director of the Aortic Center and Co-director of Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory (CT and CMR).