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save the date! U-CARS - Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium, February20 & 21, 2025

13th Annual Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium
February 20-21, 2025 ~ Salt Lake City, Utah 

It is our great pleasure to host the 13th Annual Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium (U-CARS) on February 20-21, 2025.
The 2025 U-CARS symposium will be hosted in person at the Salt Lake City Marriot University Park, located on the University of Utah campus in scenic Salt Lake City, Utah.  

The objective of this conference is to bring thought leaders together to exchange ideas, debate paradigms, and share information directly focused on issues related to myocardial recovery and regeneration.  Topics will expand across the basic, translational, and clinical sciences to provide a unique forum to push the field of heart recovery forward.

In February 2024, we hosted more than 800 registered participants with a broad range of national and international speakers. Past keynote addresses were delivered by Eric Olson, Christine Seidman, Eugene Braunwald, Sir Magdi Yacoub, and other leading experts in cardiovascular health and disease. To view a summary of what our prior conferences have included, please click "Past Conferences" under the "About Us" tab. 

2025 U-CARS Keynote Speaker:

Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado

Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Director of the Section of Pharmacogenomics in the University of Colorado Cardiovascular Institute. Dr. Bristow led the bench-to-bedside beta blocker “revolution” in heart failure therapy. He has founded or co-founded three biotechnology companies based on his research, which have developed pharmacological therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation in heart failure. Furthermore, in 1985 while at the University of Utah Dr. Bristow co-founded the first multi-hospital heart transplant program in the U.S [Utah Transplantation Affiliated Hospitals (U.T.A.H.) Cardiac Transplant Program] which has been functioning in a uniquely collaborative way since then.