Dr. Matt Cavender, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. He is the Director of CV Disease for the UNC Clinical Research Alliance and the Director of CV Clinical Trials. Dr. Cavender earned his medical degree from the University of Alabama and a Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed Internal Medicine at Duke University, acardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, and a research/interventional cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His primary research focuses on clinical trials and observational comparative effectiveness research Dr. Cavender is an Associate Editor for Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, serves on the board of serves on the board of the National Cardiovascular Data Registries, and co-chairs the American College of Cardiology’s working group on public reporting of clinical outcomes.