Professor and Chair of  School of Engineering，Senior Scientist, Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center , School of Medicine，University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Jay Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.H.A., is an international leader in myocardial bioenergetics, biomaterials, and stem cells for cardiac repair. Reviewer on NIH study sections (MIM, charter member, others); scientific journal editorial board member for Circulation Research, Circulation, American Journal of Physiology, and others. Among his recent honors and awards is the prestigious George E. Brown Memorial Lectureship for the 2014 AHA Scientific Sessions.