Speaker Profile
M.D., Professor, Stanford
Biography
Dr. Kiran Kaur Khush is a board-certified, fellowship-trained heart failure cardiologist at Stanford Health Care. Dr. Khush is also a professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Khush specializes in caring for patients with advanced heart failure and those needing a heart transplant or mechanical circulatory support. She is dedicated to delivering patient-centered, compassionate care and improving quality of life for people with heart failure.
Dr. Khush’s research interests include developing evidence-based guidelines for evaluating and accepting donor hearts for transplantation. She also studies novel ways to monitor for and prevent early and long-term complications after heart transplantation.
Dr. Khush has coauthored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Science Translational Medicine, and The Lancet. She has also presented to her peers at international and national meetings, including annual sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and the American Society of Transplantation.
Throughout her career, Dr. Khush has been an active member of the ISHLT and has served on many of the organization’s committees.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Christina Curtis, Stanford
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Joe DeRisi, UCSF / CZ Biohub / Delve Bio (Luminary)
• Alexandre Loupy, Inserm / Paris Transplant Group (Pioneer)
Featured Speakers
• Joe DeRisi, UCSF / CZ Biohub / Delve Bio
• Alexandre Loupy, Inserm / Paris Transplant Group
• Minnie Sarwal, UCSF
• Kiran Khush, Stanford
• Iwijn De Vlaminck, Cornell
• Maarten Naesens, KU Leuven
• Charles Chiu, UCSF
• Michael Snyder, Stanford
• Duncan MacCannell, CDC
• Chaz Langelier, UCSF
• Yoel Sadovsky, Stanford
• Ananth Karumanchi, Cedars-Sinai
• Gabriel Bien-Willner, Palmetto GBA / MolDX
• Dawn Cardeiro, Roche Diagnostics
• Bruce Quinn, Bruce Quinn Associates
Transplant & Organ Health Diagnostics
From biopsy to blood-based monitoring of rejection, injury, and infection.
Blood-Based Omics and Host Response in Infection
Metagenomics and host-response signals for difficult infectious disease cases.
Maternal & Fetal Health
From prenatal screening to actionable maternal and placental biomarkers.
From Signal to Standard of Care
What makes a non-cancer blood test clinically actionable and reimbursable.
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