Dr. Hina W. Chaudhry is a cardiologist, scientist, and entrepreneur.  She is currently Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.  She holds a B.S. in Chemistry, a B.S. in Biology, a thesis in Physics, and a minor in Political Science from MIT, and obtained her M.D. with Honors from Harvard Medical School.  Her former position was Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University.  She has won multiple awards in her field of cardiology including the American Heart Association’s Clinician-Scientist Award, an NIH Research Career Award, AstraZeneca’s Young Investigator Prize and was named TEDMED Innovation Scholar 2013.  She was selected for the ‘Genius’ Edition of Esquire Magazine, won Best Manuscript Award from the American Heart Association, and the Sitara Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan.  In addition to her academic career, she is also Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Chairman of the Board of VentriNova, a biotech company based on her patent portfolio that is developing novel clinical treatments for cardiac regeneration.  VentriNova was selected as one of the top 10 women-led healthcare companies in the US by Springboard Enterprises 2014 and won a National Innovation Award 2014 at the TechConnect World Innovation Summit 2014.