2025 Annual Meeting, Bios

Paul Anaya, MD, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky HealthCare

Dr. Paul Anaya received his MD and PhD from Baylor College of Medicine in 1999, followed by internal medicine residency (2002) and cardiology fellowship (2006) at Emory University. He is currently a general cardiologist at the University of Kentucky, where he attends on the cardiac critical care unit, inpatient and outpatient cardiology services, and the advanced heart failure and transplant service. He also provides general cardiology services at the Lexington VA Medical Center and participates in echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Anaya previously served as Director of the Cardiac Critical Care Unit, Director of the Inpatient Cardiology Service at UK, and as Program Director for the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship training program. His research involvement includes collaborations with the UK Aortic Alliance, Cardiac Amyloidosis Alliance, and Myocardial Recovery Alliance. Additionally, he is the principal investigator for the University of Kentucky site of the MAGNITUDE-CM Phase III Clinical Trial evaluating the efficacy of a novel gene-editing-based therapeutic for the treatment of ATTR-cardiac amyloidosis.

Kaitlin Hile, PharmD, BCCP
University of Kentucky HealthCare

Kaitlin Hile is a cardiology clinical pharmacy at University of Kentucky HealthCare, practicing in both cardiac intensive care and general cardiology. Dr. Hile completed pharmacy school at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. She then completed her PGY-1 and PGY-2 Cardiology Pharmacy residency at University of North Carolina Medical Center. Dr. Hile's professional interests include secondary prevention of acute coronary syndrome, heart failure management, and management of cardiogenic shock.

Christopher Johnsrude, MD MS, FACC
University of Louisville

Dr. Johnsrude is Professor of Pediatrics (University of Louisville) and director of the Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Electrophysiology Program. He completed residency at Cincinnati Children’s, then pediatric cardiology and electrophysiology fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2002, he was recruited to Louisville from the Feinberg School of Medicine (Northwestern University) where he directed the pediatric cardiology training program, to also serve as adjunct Associate Professor at University of Kentucky School of Medicine.

After his arrival, Dr. Johnsrude collaborated with adult and pediatric colleagues statewide to establish a comprehensive EP program for children and adults with congenital heart disease. Dr. Johnsrude has emphasized 3-D EP mapping techniques to enhance understanding of complex arrhythmia substrates, performing most ablation procedures without fluoroscopy. He acquired catheter cryo-ablation to reduce complications including post-ablation AV block and right phrenic nerve injury, and introduced “transesophageal” EP studies as minimally invasive provocative testing for young infants. He has also collaborated closely with cardiologists for combined cath-EP procedures in patients with CHD, and with CV surgeons related to planning and executing arrhythmia surgery and novel approaches to pacemaker/ICD implantation.

Dr. Johnsrude served as chief of the division of Pediatric Cardiology and co-director of the Heart Center at Norton Children’s Hospital 2008-2017, guiding a paradigm shift from private practice to an academic Heart Center that expanded breadth of expertise and clinical services through recruitments and subspecialty program development. He has served as visiting professor, invited lecturer, and moderator at regional and national scientific sessions, and been active in local and multicenter research projects, authored and co-authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and co-authored a book on pediatric electrocardiograms. Dr. Johnsrude has also been committed to quality initiatives and education of patients, nurses, and mentoring junior faculty.

Dinesh Kalra, MD
University of Louisville, School of Medicine

Professor of Medicine. Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Vice Chair for Quality, Department of Medicine. Jewish Hospital Cardiovascular Innovation Institute Director Chair in Medicine. Director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging, Lipid Clinic & Infiltrative Heart Disease Program.

Partho Sengupta, MD, DM, FACC, FASE
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Dr. Partho P. Sengupta, MD, MBBS, FACC, is the Henry Rutgers Professor and the Chief of Division of Cardiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Dr Sengupta completed his clinical residency and cardiology fellowship from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester and Arizona in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He has over 300 peer-reviewed publications. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of American College of Cardiology for Cardiovascular Imaging, has served as a Board of Director for the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), and as the Chair of the ASE Telehealth and New Technology Taskforce. Prior to his role at Rutgers, he served as Ab-nash C Jain Chair and Professor of Cardiology, Chief of Division of Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Imaging at West Virginia University, Morgantown.

Jeffrey Spindel, DO
University of Kentucky

Jeff Spindel is a PGY-7 critical care cardiology fellow. After completing internal medicine residency at the University of Louisville, he completed cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the University of Kentucky, serving as a chief fellow. Currently finishing integrated training in critical care cardiology, he will serve as UK faculty starting in 2026.