My year as HFSA President has officially ended and President Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, will lead our organization for the next 12 months.  I am certain great strides will evolve over the next year with Biykem’s leadership and the HFSA staff team at the helm.  I want to sincerely thank the membership for the privilege and responsibility entrusted in me to provide stewardship for our society.  HFSA is a wonderful society with rich tradition and a very bright future and will surely have significant growth, impact and member value in the next 5 years. 

I want to encourage all members to be active and engaged and the society will be working to create new opportunities for members to be involved.  Last year, I encouraged all to engage in Twitter and you all broke the records for by a wide margin for Tweets at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting . 

Also, my sincere thanks to all members for making the 23rd HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting a huge success with record attendance 3,003, active participation throughout, and a very strong finish for a standing room only appearance by Shaq!

Look below for some highlights from year as HFSA President.

Best Regards,

Randall C. Starling, MD, MPH, FHFSA

HFSA President

Twitter: @rcstarling

Shaquille O'Neal is deemed an honorary fellow of HFSA at the 23rd HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting, in September 2019.

Canadian Heart Failure Society President Shelley Zieroth and HFSA President Randall Starling at the CHFS annual meeting held in Montreal in May 2019.

HFSA Executive Committee hard at work in August 2019
 

 At the Heart Failure Presidential Conference
 

China International Heart Failure Congress in June 2019
 

HFSA board planning meeting in January 2019

The entire Heart Failure Society of America board & staff accepted the #SuckaLemonChallenge @ShelleyZieroth delivered to HFSA President @rcstarling because #HeartFailureSucks 🍋🍋 Prof. Seferović from @escardio HFA, you’ve been challenged! @CanHFSociety @pumpinghearts pic.twitter.com/nMFgFg8d5w

— HFSA (@HFSA) May 9, 2019