David Kao

Dr. Kao is an academic cardiologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz. He holds the Jacqueline Marie Schauble Leaffer Endowed Chair in Women’s Heart Disease and is Medical Director of the UCHealth CARE Innovation Center and the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM). He has been involved in biomedical research since 1996 and has > 120 peer-reviewed publications. He uses his clinical experience and informatics expertise to combine and leverage very large clinical datasets to close critical gaps in knowledge regarding presentation, natural history and management of congestive heart failure with a specific focus on women with HF. His primary goal is to enable informed, personalized clinical decision-making by combining fundamental principles of the practice of medicine with user-centered digital technologies and widely available clinical intelligence.