Dr Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam ( Karthik Ananth ) is currently Tenured Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University, Director of Nuclear Cardiology/PET and Echocardiography Laboratory, Co-Director Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Amyloidosis and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Programs at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Michigan and and immediate past Governer-President Michigan Chapter, American College of Cardiology. He previously served as Director of Echocardiography ( 2009-2019) and as the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Program Director from 2011-2021 at Henry Ford Hospital . He graduated in 1991, receiving the Johnstone Medal for Best Outgoing Medical Student of Madras Medical College. He subsequently completed Internal Medicine Residency,Cardiology and Echocardiography Fellowships at Henry Ford Hospital Detroit Michigan, Advanced imaging fellowships in Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET at University of Ottawa Canada, and Cardiac CT-MRI fellowship at William Beaumont Hospital, Michigan. He received the Francis Fernandes Award for excellence in cardiovascular fellowship on graduation from his cardiology fellowship. He has completed advanced imaging training in Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography and Cardiac CT/MRI and is currently American Board certified in Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI. He is a faculty member of the advanced imaging section (cardiac CT/MR) at Henry Ford Hospital. He is a 8 time recipient of the Best Teacher Award from the Division of Cardiology at Henry Ford Hospital and has received Distinguished Service Award from Division of Cardiology 2019 and 2021 and is active in academic cardiology with over 120 abstracts and 130 papers. He is a member/fellow of multiple cardiology professional organizations (ACC (fellow), AHA(member), ASNC(fellow), ASE( fellow), SCMR(fellow), SCCT( fellow)) and serves as reviewer for over 10 leading professional cardiology journals. He has been actively involved in regional and national level committees of the American College of Cardiology, serving as the Topic Coordinator for Imaging and Diagnostic Sessions and Imaging Spotlight Sessions for the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2011-2014. He has served on the publications committee of American Society of Echocardiography and currently is very active American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. He has served as the Chair of the ASNC Education Committee, and as Co-Chair of the ASNC Board Prep course,Chair of ASNC 2022 sessions, served on ASNC Board of Directors member Editorial Board of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology and has served as ASNC Scientific sessions program and organizing committee member for number of years. He served Secretary and Executive Council Member for American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and Secretary of the Cardiovascular Council of SNMMI. He was recently conferred the designation of Master of American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. He also holds an Honarary International Professor Position at Apollo Hospital Health and Research Foundation, Delhi, India. Dr Ananthasubramaniam has trained and mentored over 160 cardiology fellows over 23 years and mentored advanced cardiac imaging fellows for the past 15 years and is active in educational efforts for fellows and training regionally and nationally. He is the primary investigator in numerous imaging single center and multicenter research trials in echocardiography, cardiac CT and nuclear cardiology . He is listed as one of the “:Top Docs “in the specialty of cardiology by the Detroit “ Hour” magazine and is on “Top Docs “ list of Castle Connolly . He enjoys exercise, movies and table tennis during his leisure times.