Biography

Medical Director, CHF, Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital and Abrazo Health Network Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona Founding Member and Past President, Cardiorenal Society of America (CRSA) Kris Vijay, MD, MS, FACC, FNLA, FHFSA is currently the Medical Director at Arizona Heart Foundation. He is a Heart Failure and preventive cardiologist, a lipidologist, fellowship trained in endocrinology, nephrology, and cardiology, an ardent researcher, and an educator. Trained in India, England, and USA and with a Master’s degree in clinical Research from University of Michigan, he has 30 plus years of clinical experience, investigator in 200 plus clinical studies and published 100 plus peer reviewed manuscripts. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at U of Arizona, faculty at College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, a past Governor of the American College of Cardiology, Arizona, recipient of multiple awards, and author of a recent book “Invoking your inner therapist in Heart Failure”, Dr Vijay volunteers around the world serving the underserved to reduce the burden of Diabetes, Heart, and kidney disease through his nonprofit organization, TWINEPIDEMIC.

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