Dr. W. H. Wilson Tang is Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He received his MD degree at Harvard Medical School, internal medicine residency and postdoctoral heart failure research training at Stanford University Medical Center, and Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic before joining as staff cardiologist and research director in heart failure/transplant.  Dr. Tang is an advanced heart failure/transplant cardiologist that specialized in cardiomyopathies, with a translational research laboratory focusing on cardiac biomarkers and metabolic determinants of cardio-renal diseases as well as genetic, epigenetic, and immune regulation of cardiomyopathies.  He has served in multiple committees for the Heart Failure Society of America over the past two decades, including Associate Editor for Journal of Cardiac Failure from 2009-2012 and member of Board of Directors from 2016-2020.  Dr. Tang has published over 968 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and 93 book chapters.  He was elected as member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2013 for his contributions to physiologic and mechanistic understanding of cardio-renal syndromes, as well as the Association of American Physicians in 2018 for studying the contributing role of diet and gut microbiome in cardiovascular diseases.  Dr. Tang has received the American College of Cardiology’s 2022 Distinguished Scientist Award in the Basic Domain for his scientific contributions.