MEET THE

SPEAKERS

Alison Marsden

DOUGLASS M. AND NOLA LEISHMAN PROFESSOR OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRICS (CARDIOLOGY) AND OF BIOENGINEERING AND, BY COURTESY, OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Stanford University

Alison Marsden is the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of cardiovascular disease in the departments of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and, by courtesy, Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Physical Society, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She received the UCSD graduate student association faculty mentor award in 2014 and MAE department teaching award at UCSD in 2015 and the Van C. Mow Medal from the ASME in 2023, and the department of Pediatrics Postdoc Mentoring Award in 2025. She has published over 200 peer reviewed journal papers, and has active funding from the NSF, NIH, and several private foundations. She serves on editorial boards of leading journals in biomechanics and computational science. Her work focuses on the development of numerical methods for cardiovascular blood flow simulation, medical device design, application of optimization to large-scale fluid mechanics simulations, and application of engineering tools to impact patient care in cardiovascular surgery and congenital heart disease.


Charles Taylor

PROFESSOR, W.A. "TEX MONCRIEF, JR. ENDOWMENT IN SIMULATION-BASED ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES - ENDOWED CHAIR NO. 7, DIRECTER FOR THE THE CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL MEDICINE

The University of Texas at Austin

Charles “Charley” Taylor, Ph.D., leads the Center for Computational Medicine jointly founded by Dell Medical School and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Under Taylor’s leadership, the center advances research in artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital twin technology, supporting capabilities that are a key component of the world-class, integrated academic medical center UT is building. As part of his work, Taylor focuses on translating computational medicine research findings into real-world clinical approaches, working with industry partners to widely disseminate these solutions and maximize their impact. The center complements ongoing work in the Center for Computational Oncology and the Willerson Center for Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation, further advancing collaborations between the Oden Institute and Dell Med. Dr. Taylor is a Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of HeartFlow Inc. He was Chief Technology Officer at HeartFlow from 2010 to 2021 and then Chief Scientific Officer from 2021 to 2023. Dr. Taylor is also the Chairman of Ebenbuild, GmBh. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering work over the last 30 years in combining computer simulation methods with medical imaging data for patient-specific modeling of blood flow to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Charles has published over 425 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has more than 300 issued patents worldwide. 

Daniel Stromberg

PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY AND PERIOPERATIVE CARE, DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS

Dell Medical School & Dell Children's Medical Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Daniel Stromberg, M.D., is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist who has worked in pediatric cardiac critical care for the last 27 years. He is currently director of cardiac critical care at Dell Children’s Medical Center in addition to his faculty appointment at Dell Medical School. Prior to joining the University faculty, Stromberg was director of the cardiac intensive care unit at Children’s Medical Center Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he established their first program in cardiac critical care. Thereafter, he established and directed the congenital heart surgery unit at Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas, followed by work at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital affiliated with the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Stromberg has significant experience in academic medicine and clinical trials and has published several book chapters and manuscripts related to his work. His current academic interests include resuscitation of congenital heart patients, predictive analysis of physiologic patient data, and medical device development.

Peter Monteleone

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

ASSOCIATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE FELLOWSHIP

Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin

Peter Monteleone is an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and interventional cardiologist and vascular medicine physician. He serves as the director of the Ascension Seton Heart Institute Clinical Research Group, medical director for the SHI Vascular Imaging Laboratory and as an assistant program director for the cardiovascular fellowship. Monteleone completed his internal medicine residency training and served as a chief resident at the University of Virginia. He also obtained a master’s degree in clinical research while at UVA. He completed cardiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. He completed interventional cardiology fellowship as well as advanced fellowship training in vascular medicine and intervention at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Monteleone served as faculty at the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts General Hospital prior to moving to Austin and joining the faculty at Dell Medical School. Monteleone’s personal research interests are focusing on diagnostics, outcomes and novel device development in peripheral vascular and cardiovascular medicine. He is also passionate regarding utilization and implementation of machine-learning techniques in advancing clinical diagnostics and therapies. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology as well as a fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.