Dr. Taylor is a Professor of Medicine and Interventional Cardiology Medical Director at the Coronary Intensive Care Unit in the University of Virginia Heart & Vascular Center. In addition to her expertise in chronic total occlusion interventional cardiology, Dr. Taylor is the PI or Co-investigator on several successful ongoing collaborations with NIH-funded basic science researchers she has provided human phenotyping in the cardiac catheterization and imaging laboratories, robust data management systems, statistical analysis, and specimen banking. Dr. Taylor has specific expertise in intravascular ultrasound and virtual histology and expertise in statistical analysis of human data including multivariate analysis. She currently directs the coronary care unit and the cardiothoracic surgical intensive care unit. She also specializes in leading culture change across many areas of Heart and Vascular.

Jane Ellis, MD, PhD, is Medical Director of the Emory Regional Perinatal Center, and Assistant Professor in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at Emory University. Her talk will focus on outcomes of the Maternal Mortal Review Committee (MMRC) in Georgia, and contributions to maternal mortality in morbidity. In the panel that follows, discussion will center on the new, statewide Hope for Georgia Moms Program and the groundbreaking work of the Maternal Cardiac Program led by the NGHS Women and Children Program and Georgia Heart Institute.

Dr. Ellis is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and the medical director of the Emory Regional Perinatal Center at the Grady Health System and an associate professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Ellis is a founding member of Georgia’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC), serves on the Advisory Board of the Georgia Perinatal Quality Collaborative (GaPQC) and member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Maternal Mortality.

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, Professor in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine: Dr. Kalinsky serves as the director of the Glenn Family Breast Center at Winship where he is tasked with fulfilling the vision to improve breast cancer outcomes by aligning research and education with cancer treatment and prevention. 

Dr. Kalinsky received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Masters in Biostatistics, Patient Oriented Research Track from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. His training included a Residency and Medical Oncology Fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Breast Cancer Research Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Breast Cancer Advanced Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Kalinsky’s research involves the development of early-phase clinical trials to assess novel therapeutics in breast cancer based on tumor genomics. He has received the NCI Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award, Physician of Impact Award by Komen Greater NYC, Ewig Clinical Scholar Teaching Award, and SWOG Career Engagement Award