Gary Rex Nelson

Frederick Welt, M.D. is Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, Dept. of Medicine & Chief, Interventional Cardiology. He is a professor of medicine and a member of the Interventional Cardiology faculty. Dr. Welt most recently served as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, as well as Director of the Interventional Cardiovascular Experimental Laboratory. His clinical practice included outpatient clinical care and performing diagnostic catheterizations and coronary interventions. Dr. Welt specializes in interventional coronary and structural heart disease cases, including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR). His clinical responsibilities include the invasive management of acute heart attacks, assessment of valvular heart disease, coronary stent implantation/balloon angioplasty, and PFO/ASD closure. He is also an active clinical investigator, having been involved in the PARTNER trial of transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices, translational research of novel devices to treat structural heart disease, and protocols involving stem cell therapy for cardiac disease. Dr. Welt graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1992 and completed residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also served as Chief Resident at the West Roxbury VA Hospital and completed a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. In addition to practicing and teaching at BWH and Harvard, he has written numerous journal articles and served as a reviewer for publications.

Dr. Mihalopoulos graduated medical school from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and received her MPH in Health Systems Management at Tulane, then moved to Rochester, NY to complete dual post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships in adolescent medicine and preventive cardiology at the University of Rochester. Nicole Mihalopoulos, MD, MPH is Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Mihalopoulos sees adolescents and young adults, 8 – 25 years of age, with a variety of adolescent health problems. She has special interest in obesity and heart disease risk factors, menstrual management, transgender healthcare, and eating disorders.

Dr. Khanh Lai is a graduate of Stanford University and received her medical degree from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. She completed her Pediatric residency and Pediatric Pulmonology fellowship at UC Irvine. She is board certified in Pediatric Pulmonology. In 2016, Dr. Lai joined the University of Utah and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine. Her clinical interests include cystic fibrosis, asthma, bronchopulmonary dysplasia / chronic lung disease of prematurity, interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary hypertension.