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Dr. Maurer is a general internist and geriatric cardiologist with advanced training in heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He is the Arnold and Arlene Goldstein Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he directs the Clinical Cardiovascular Research Laboratory for the Elderly (CCRLE) at the Allen Hospital of New York Presbyterian Hospital and is a member of the Advanced Cardiac Care Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Columbia. Dr. Maurer’s work focuses on evaluating age-related changes in cardiovascular physiology in order to elucidate the mechanism that underlie the higher prevalence and incidence of cardiovascular disease in older individuals. He was chair of the ACC’s Geriatric Cardiology Member Section, which is the largest organization dedicated to advancing the care of older adults with cardiovascular disease. He was co-chair of the Steering Committee of the ATTR-ACT trial showing tafamidis was a safe and effective therapy for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. He has published over 190 articles including peer reviewed manuscripts, reviews and book chapters and is a member of the writing group for the Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis to be published this summer.