Dr. Guilherme Oliveira, MD, MBA holds the Ed C. Wright Chair of Cardiovascular Research and is Professor of Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine. He is an internationally known physician leader in cardiovascular medicine who was previously Chief of USF Division of Cardiovascular Sciences and director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Center at University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Before that, he was co-director of Cardio-Oncology in the Section of Heart Failure at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio and Director of heart failure services at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. After earning his medical degree at the Faculdade Nacional de Medicina in Rio de Janeiro, he did his internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic Rochester and cardiology and heart failure fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute. In 2016, Dr. Oliveira earned a Masters of Business Administration from MITs Sloan School of Management. He is an externally funded clinical investigator whose work and expertise span advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation and cardio-oncology. With over one hundred peer-reviewed publications, he is widely recognized for his work on mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation in cancer survivors exposed to chemotherapy and radiation, having lectured on these topics at major academic institutions nationally and around the globe. Lastly, he sits on advisory boards in industry, editorial peer review journals, NIH work groups and major societies. In 2021, Dr. Oliveira was honored as the Keynote Speaker at the 76th Scientific Sessions of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, the third largest cardiovascular society in the world. He currently serves as president of the American Heart Associations Tampa Metro Board. He is the recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Leadership Award from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Science