Valentin Fuster
Director, Mount Sinai Heart; Physician-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
Valentin Fuster is a cardiologist and the Richard Gorlin, MD Heart Research Foundation Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he is physician in chief of Mount Sinai Hospital and director of Mount Sinai Heart. He is co-chair of an advisory committee to the US president on the role of the United States in global health, a member of the European Horizon 2020 Scientific Panel of Health, and president of the training program of the American College of Cardiology. A past president of the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation, Fuster has been named Doctor Honoris Causa by 36 universities.