Andrew Arai, MD is a professor of cardiovascular medicine and adjunct professor of radiology at the uNiversity of Utah School of medicine. He received a B.A. in Biophysics from Cornell University in 1982. He received his M.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982. He completed internal medicine training (1986-89) and cardiology fellowship (1989-93) at the Oregon Health Science University. He moved to the intramural research program of teh National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health from 1994 - 2021. He currently leads advanced cardiovascular imaging for cardiology at the University of Utah (CMR and CCTA). Dr. Arai developed interests in myocardial ischemia and infarction during his cardiology fellowship. From initial work characterizing the biochemistry of hibernating myocardium, he has subsequently studied imaging methods capable of assessing ischemic heart disease at high resolution. This emphasis on translational research has led to development and validation of methods for quantifying myocardial perfusion, function, infarction, T1 mapping, T2 mapping, extracellular volume imaging, and perfusion quantification to the pixel level (~2x2x8 mm). He has over 300 publications and has given over 300 invited lectures, the majority focusing on aspects of cardiovascular magnetic resonance or myocardial ischemia.