Kris Vijay (Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, MD, MS, FACC, FACP, FNLA, FHFSA) is a
noninvasive Heart Failure cardiologist and the current Medical Director, of Arizona Heart Foundation, President of Innovative Cardiometabolic Center, and a medical and healthcare consultant, advising many pharmaceutical, biotech, and device industries He was recently the Medical Director of the Institute of Congestive Heart Failure at Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital and Abrazo Health Network. He is a trained endocrinologist, Lipidologists, an ardent researcher and a Heart Failure specialist. Dr. Vijay graduated from Kasturba Medical College, University of Mysore, completed postgraduate training in medicine and Nephrology at KEM Hospital in Bombay, India, Oxford Region, UK, and Rochester, NY, Endocrinology and Diabetes fellowship from U of Southampton, UK, and a fellowship in cardiology at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix. He holds a master’s degree in clinical research design and statistical analysis from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.
He has been in clinical practice for more than 40 years. Dr. Vijay is the past Governor of the American College of Cardiology, Arizona Chapter, Board member, National Lipid Association, a founding member and past President of the Cardio Renal Society of America , associate editor, Journal of Clinical Lipidology , member cardiometabolic committee at ACC, and current President of the TWINEPIDEMIC, Inc., a nonprofit organization addressing Diabetes and Heart disease among Ethnic Communities worldwide.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, National Lipid association and Heart Failure Society of America.