Glenn I. Fishman, MD, will speak at noon, Wednesday, April 25, at the Jewish Rudd Heart & Lung Center Conference Center, 201 Abraham Flexner Way. Admission is free and parking also is available free of charge in the Jewish Hospital Garage, 450 S. Floyd St.

Fishman is the William Goldring Professor of Medicine and Director of the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology at New York University School of Medicine. He also serves as vice chair for Research in the Department of Medicine and a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology.

His research focuses on the formation and function of the specialized cardiac conduction system. This complex network comprises pace-making cells that establish the normal rhythmicity of the heart, as well as rapidly conducting specialized cells that facilitate highly synchronized excitation and contraction of the working myocardium, which is the muscle substance of the heart that enables it to pump.

Continuing education credits are available to both physicians and nurses who attend the lecture and more information is available via email.

The Leonard Leight Lecture is presented annually by the聽聽in the 聽at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and funding is provided through the Jewish Hospital & St. Mary鈥檚 Foundation. For 30 years until 1996, Leight was a practicing cardiologist in Louisville and played a major role in developing cardiology services and bringing innovative treatment modalities in heart disease to Louisville.

The Leonard Leight Lecture series was established at the Jewish Hospital & St. Mary鈥檚 Foundation in 1994 by gifts from Dr. and Mrs. Kurt Ackermann and Medical Center Cardiologists.

Gary H. Gibbons, MD, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, will discuss that institute’s strategic vision in the 24^th Leonard Leight Lecture at the University of Louisville on Friday, Nov. 4, at noon in the HSC Auditorium in Kornhauser Library.

The NHLBI recently announced a strategic vision of eight objectives that provide the framework for the institute鈥檚 research priorities for the coming decade. In his talk, 鈥淐harting our future together: Setting an agenda for the NHLBI,鈥� Gibbons will outline the priorities set out in the vision, which support the NHLBI鈥檚 goals to understand and promote health, stimulate discoveries in the causes of disease, enable the translation of those discoveries into clinical practice and foster the next generation of scientists and physicians.

鈥淭he convergence of innovations in areas such as computational biology, data science, bioengineering and high-throughput 鈥榦mics鈥� technologies is paving the way for a new appreciation of human health and disease,鈥� Gibbons said as the institute published the in August. 鈥淲e now have unprecedented opportunities to better understand the complex interplay of environmental, behavioral and molecular factors that promote health; a clearer picture of the earliest point of disease development; and the ability to repair damaged tissues with stem cell and tissue engineering techniques.鈥�

The NHLBI provides global leadership for research, training and education programs to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives.

Gibbons’s talk is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, noon to聽1 p.m. in the HSC Auditorium in Kornhauser Library on the UofL Health Sciences Center Campus.

On Oct. 14, Linda S. Birnbaum, PhD, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, discussed environmental research and the role of the NIEHS in human health at UofL as the keynote speaker of Research!Louisville.

The Leonard Leight Lecture is presented by the in the at the UofL School of Medicine. For 30 years until 1996, Leight was a practicing cardiologist in Louisville and played a major role in developing cardiology services and bringing innovative treatment modalities in heart disease to Louisville. The Leonard Leight Lecture series was established in 1994 and is made possible by gifts from Dr. and Mrs. Kurt Ackermann and Medical Center Cardiologists to the Jewish Hospital & St. Mary鈥檚 Foundation.