Dr. Yosef Manla graduated Cum Laude from Aleppo University in Syria in 2020 with the Excellence in Education award. He is currently a research fellow at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California. Previously, he worked as a research scholar at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He has been academically active with several publications in international journals. He has presented at the foremost cardiovascular conferences. He has received several research recognitions and awards from various American and European cardiac societies. He has a vested interest in heart failure and heart transplantation with future aspirations to become a physician-scientist.