Dr. Biykem Bozkurt is the Senior Dean of Faculty, the Mary and Gordon Cain Chair and Professor of Medicine; Director of Winters Center of Heart Failure; Associate Director of Cardiovascular Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, and the Medicine Chief at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medicine in Houston TX. Throughout her career, Dr. Bozkurt has been recognized for excellence in clinical care, education, and research. She was the recipient of the VA career development grant and MERIT research awards, American College of Cardiology Proctor Harvey MD Young Teacher Award, American College of Cardiology Gifted Educator Award, Baylor College of Medicine presidential awards in Education, Lifetime Master Clinician, and Professionalism. She has been listed in Clarivate World’s Highly Cited Researchers (top 1% Web of Science) in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023. Dr. Bozkurt is the Editor-in-Chief of JACC: Heart Failure. She served as the President of the Heart Failure Society of America in 2019-2020, led the Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure as the Chair in 2021, and is the Vice-Chair of the 2022 AHA/ACC Heart Failure Guidelines Writing Committee. She served as a Senior Associate Editor for Circulation; heart failure section editor for the Journal of American College of Cardiology. Dr. Bozkurt actively participates in clinical and translational research; provides advanced heart failure patient care; presents at national and international scientific sessions; teaches and mentors trainees and faculty.