Professional Bio:

Gurusher Panjrath is a board-certified advanced heart failure and transplantation cardiologist. He has resided and practiced in Washington DC since 2013. He serves as Director of Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at George Washington University Hospital, Professor of Medicine and Director of Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Center. He is also the Director of GW Heart and Vascular Institute. Dr. Panjrath set up a comprehensive heart failure program and championed innovative strategies involving mobile health, food security and community navigators to improve care of an underserved, economically disadvantaged population in Washington DC. To achieve this, he partnered with community-based organizations which also led to improved access to nutrition for underserved patients with chronic CV disease in an effort to improve health, reductions in hospital readmissions in a high-risk population and improved quality of care delivery. He has served as past chair of the Heart Failure and Transplant section during which he was instrumental in creating an international working group on heart failure within the college represented by international governors. He was an advocate for diverse representation within the section leadership. He has served on multiple committees and workgroups including one on improving membership and recently chaired and co-chaired round tables on improving heart failure care and implementation of proven therapies to improve patient centered outcomes. He has participated at the ACC legislative conference advocating for support for ACC supported bills including those on telehealth, cardiac rehab and provider well-being. He has represented ACC at international chapter meetings and served and lead educational initiatives at the regional, national and international level as part of ACC. He has previously served as co-editor of the HFSAP and currently contributes to the ABIM/ACC CMP product. Dr. Panjrath has also represented ACC multiple times in media or press queries. He had started and chaired one of the earliest and successful career guidance symposiums directed towards FIT, early careers and CVT members. He helped develop and lead the survey on academic section to understand the challenges and needs of academic cardiologist at different career levels. At the hospital and medical school, he has served on quality improvement committees, readmission committees, diversity, equity and inclusion committee and is the cardiovascular section lead for preclinical medical student education.