2025 Annual Meeting, Bios
2026 Annual Meeting Sponsors
Speaker Bios
George Davis, PharmD, BCPS
University of Kentucky UK HealthCare
Dr. George Davis (PharmD) is Antithrombotic Stewardship Program Coordinator at UK HealthCare Pharmacy Services and Adjunct Professor with University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. He completed pharmacy residency and research fellowship training at the University of Kentucky and has been a clinical pharmacist at UK HealthCare for over 25 years with practice, teaching, research, and scholarly activity focused in clinical pharmacokinetics and antithrombosis pharmacotherapeutics. Dr. Davis is co-lead of the multidisciplinary Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT) at UK HealthCare and actively involved in the National PERT Consortium including serving as a member of the PERT Consortium Board of Directors and Education, Protocol Development, and Research committees. Most recently, he served on the steering committee on Pulmonary Embolism Research Collaborative (PERC) to define and develop consensus about the components of clinical care and outcomes.
Robert Evers, RDCS, FASE
Baptist Health
Manager and Technical Director of the Echo Lab at Baptist Health Louisville, with over 30 years of experience in cardiovascular diagnostics. Speaker hypertrophic cardiomyopathy for Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS).
Dinesh Kalra, MD
University of Louisville
Dr. Kalra is the Governor of KY-ACC and Chief of Cardiology at University of Louisville. His clinical and research expertise is in multimodality imaging and Preventive Cardiology/Lipidology. He serves as Chair-elect of the BOG of the ACC and the Editor-in-Chief of JACC: Advances.
Lexmi Mehta, MD, MBA
The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center
Dr. Laxmi Mehta is Chief Well-Being Leader and Faculty Director of the Gabbe Well-Being Office at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She holds the Sarah Ross Soter Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health and serves as Director of Preventive Cardiology and Women’s Cardiovascular Health. Her clinical and academic work focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention, women’s cardiovascular health, clinician well-being and burnout. Dr. Mehta serves as Chair of the ACC’s Membership Committee and the Clinician Well-Being Work Group and will join the ACC Board of Trustees in spring 2027. She previously served as President and Secretary/Treasurer of the Ohio Chapter of the ACC.