Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam
Secretary (Apr 2019-Dec 2022)Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam is the Metro Detroit Chapter. Karthikeyan is Senior Staff Physician and Director of Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory and Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory at Henry Ford Hospital. Karthikeyan has received his medical degree from Madras Medical college and residency from Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital. His area of expertise is valvular heart disease, cardiac risk assessment, adults with congenital heart disease, and special expertise in all forms of noninvasive heart imaging, such as echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI, and cardiac PET. Karthikeyan has recently started a Heart Smart Cardiac Screening Program at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital to help the community understand the risk for heart disease in the future. Karthikeyan is active in clinical research and has published many papers in cardiology
Arti Bhan, MD
Vice-President (Apr 2019-Dec 2022)Arti Bhan is the vice-president of Metro Detroit Chapter. Arti is Senior Staff Physician and Division Head of Endocrinology, at Henry Ford Health System. She received her medical degree from India. She completed an Internal Medicine Residency at St. John Hospital and Medical Center and then went on to a fellowship in Endocrinology at Henry Ford Health System. She is active in clinical research and is an investigator in numerous trials, including NIH funded studies. Arti’s main area of interests are in diabetes and thyroid disorders, and she trains fellows in thyroid ultrasonography and thyroid biopsies
Suresh Selvaraj Palaniyandi, PhD
President (Apr 2019-Dec 2022)Suresh Selvaraj Palaniyandi is the president of Metro Detroit Chapter. Suresh is currently senior staff investigator in the Division of Hypertension and Vascular Research, Henry Ford Health System. He also serves as an adjunct faculty in Department of Physiology, Wayne State University. His research focuses on the diabetic cardiovascular complications. Suresh obtained his PhD from Japan. After finishing his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, Suresh has joined as a faculty in Henry Ford. His research has been supported by grants from Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation, American Heart Association and National Institute of Health.