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14th Annual Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium
February 5-6, 2026 ~ Salt Lake City, Utah
View All 2025 Recording links on our AGENDA Tab
It will be our great pleasure to host the 14th Annual Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium (U-CARS) on February 5-6, 2026.
The 2026 U-CARS symposium will be hosted at the Salt Lake City Marriot University Park, located on the University of Utah campus in scenic Salt Lake City, Utah.
The objective of this conference once again is to bring thought leaders from around the world together to exchange ideas, debate paradigms, and share information directly focused on issues related to myocardial recovery and regeneration. Topics will expand across the basic, translational, and clinical sciences to provide a unique forum to push the field of heart recovery forward.
We hosted more than 1000 registered participants, both in-person and virtually, at our 2025 conference. Past keynote addresses have been delivered by Eugene Braunwald, Michael Bristow, Christine Seidman, Eric Olsen, Lynne Stevenson, Sir Magdi Yacoub, and other leading experts in cardiovascular health and disease. To view a summary of what our prior conferences have included, please click "Past Conferences" under the "About Us" tab.
Stay tuned this summer for more U-CARS 2026 details, we hope to see you all once again!
2025 U-CARS Keynote Speaker:
Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD
30 + years of Gene Expression Measurements in the Intact Human Heart: What have we Learned?
Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Director of the Section of Pharmacogenomics in the University of Colorado Cardiovascular Institute. Dr. Bristow led the bench-to-bedside beta blocker “revolution” in heart failure therapy. He has founded or co-founded three biotechnology companies based on his research, which have developed pharmacological therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation in heart failure. Furthermore, in 1985 while at the University of Utah Dr. Bristow co-founded the first multi-hospital heart transplant program in the U.S [Utah Transplantation Affiliated Hospitals (U.T.A.H.) Cardiac Transplant Program] which has been functioning in a uniquely collaborative way since then.
