Kris Vijay (Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, MD, MS, FACC, FACP, FNLA, FHFSA) is a noninvasive Heart Failure cardiologist and President of Innovative Cardiometabolic Center, a medical and healthcare consultant, advising many pharmaceutical, biotech and device industries He was recently the Medical Director of the Institute of Congestive Heart Failure at Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital and Abrazo Health Network. He is a trained endocrinologist, Lipidologists, an ardent researcher and a Heart Failure specialist. Dr. Vijay graduated from Kasturba Medical College, University of Mysore, completed postgraduate training in medicine and Nephrology at KEM Hospital in Bombay, India, Oxford Region, UK, and Rochester, NY, Endocrinology and Diabetes fellowship from U of Southampton, UK, and a fellowship in cardiology at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix. He holds a master’s degree in clinical research design and statistical analysis from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Dr. Vijay serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at U of Arizona, Phoenix