Speakers

Dr. Trayanova holds the Murray B. Sachs Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. She directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation, and is also the Director for AI Research in Health and Medicine in the Data Science and AI Institute. Trayanova has pioneered the development and use of patient heart digital twins of representing the functioning of the patient’s organ. Using her first-of-their-kind personalized heart digital twins and deep learning approaches, Dr. Trayanova has developed new technologies for accurately predicting risk of cardiac arrest and for the precise delivery of catheter ablation therapies in patients with heart rhythm disorders. For her pioneering work in computational cardiology, she has received NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. Her research output includes over 450 published papers and book chapters. Dr. Trayanova is the inventor on numerous patents and patent applications filed world-wide, and was named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020. Trayanova’s work has received world-wide recognition, and she is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. In 2019, Dr. Trayanova was inducted in the Women of Technology International Hall of Fame, an honor conferred only on 5 women each year from around the world. She has received the Distinguished Scientist Award and the Zipes Distinguished Award from Heart Rhythm Society, and the Gordon Moe Award by the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society. This year, she is the recipient of the Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Award by the Physiological Society and the James T. Willerson Award in Clinical Science by AHA. Trayanova has been named a Fellow of every American and European clinical cardiology society, testifying to her impact in clinical practice. She is also a Fellow of AIMBE, BMES, IAMBE, IUPS, and IEEE.