Attending Physician, Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, TX，Medical Director of the Program in Cardio-Oncology at the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Vlad Gabriel Zaha specializes in onco-cardiology and advanced cardiovascular imaging diagnostic modalities. Dr. Zaha went on to conduct research studies of myocardial cell biology, investigating insulin signaling and glucose-transport mechanisms in the heart during his medical degree. He earned his doctoral degree summa cum laude at the University of Freiburg in Germany and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology and genetics at the University of Utah, where he conducted studies to elucidate molecular and genetic connections that underlie the energetic metabolism in the heart, funded by a fellowship award from the American Heart Association. Dr. Zaha also conducted studies of molecular mechanisms for protection of myocardial mitochondria and was recognized as a finalist at the 2014 Northwestern Young Investigator Forum.