Director, Heart Failure Services, VA Atlanta Health Care
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Alanna A. Morris joined the ECCRI faculty in 2013. Dr. Morris received her undergraduate degree in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana, and her medical degree from the Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Subsequently, she came to Emory University to complete fellowships in general cardiology, and advanced heart failure and transplant. After completion of her fellowship training, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine. Her clinical time is spent as the Director of Heart Failure Services at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, and as faculty for Emorys Center for Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation.
Guest Speaker: John D. Bisognano, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Director of General, Consultative, and Preventive Cardiology, University of Michigan
Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, Cardiology,
University of Rochester Medical Center
Dr. Bisognano joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 2001 during the founding era of a new Program in Heart Failure and Transplantation, where he also served as Director of Outpatient Cardiology and the Comprehensive Hypertension Center of Excellence. He was medical director of AHP, the accountable care organization associated with the University of Rochester. He returned to the University of Michigan in 2021 and sees patients on the inpatient cardiology services, the inpatient consultative service, and in the outpatient clinics in Ann Arbor and Brighton. His area of specialty includes general cardiology as well as severe and resistant hypertension, lipid management, and management of patients with chronic heart failure and ischemic coronary and vascular disease.
