Spencer C. Smith

Anwar Tandar, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine with an appointment in the Cardiology Division at the University of Utah. He has been on faculty at the University of Utah since 2011and is the Co-Director of the Valve Clinic Program and the TAVR Program. Dr. Tandar cares for patients at the University of Utah Hospital and Memorial Hospital in Rock Springs. He received his medical degree from Sriwijaya University in Indonesia in 1994. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Universtiy of Massachusetts ( Worcester ) in 2000 and his General Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Utah in 2006. He then completed his Inteventional Cardiology Fellowship at the Universtiy of Utah in 2007. Dr. Tandar held a faculty appointment in Interventional Cardiology at SUNY-Buffalo before returning to the University of Utah. Dr. Tandar is actively involved in clinical research aimed at implementing innovative practices while maintaining the highest level of patient care.

Estelle S. Harris, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah Health Science Center. As a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician, her clinical interests include general pulmonary consultation, acute lung injury, non-invasive ventilation, neuromuscular abnormalities and diaphragm muscle dysfunction. Dr. Harris received her MD from the University of Colorado. She received training in Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital, Boston University, and her Pulmonary and Critical Care training from the University of Michigan. Dr. Harris is the Medical Director of the University of Utah medical intensive care unit (ICU) and the Huntsman Cancer Hospital ICU/intermediate care unit. She is also the pulmonary consultant for the neuromuscular clinics at Neurosciences Center and the NeuRx Diaphragm Stimulator Program. She is currently a member of the American Thoracic Society, The American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Larry W. Kraiss, M.D is a graduate of Vanguard University of Southern California (BA: Science-Chemistry) and Baylor College of Medicine (M.D.). He took his general and vascular surgical training at the University of Washington in Seattle where he spent three years in the vascular biology research laboratory of Dr. Alexander Clowes. He joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 1995 where he established an NIH-funded research laboratory studying translational control in endothelial cells. He served as vascular surgery division chief from 2003-2018 and was director of the vascular surgery fellowship program at the University of Utah from 2003-2012. He is currently Professor of Surgery and Medical Director of the University of Utah Hospital Vascular Laboratory and maintains a broad-based vascular surgery practice. Dr. Kraiss has a robust outreach schedule seeing patients in Roosevelt, Utah, Evanston and Rock Springs, Wyoming. Dr. Kraiss has received a number of research and teaching awards and has been a regular reviewer for research proposals submitted to the NIH, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS). He has served as Chair of the SVS Research Council and Chair of the Executive Committee of the SVS Patient Safety Organization (VQI) and is current Chair of the SVS Quality Council. He is past-president of the Rocky Mountain Vascular Society and the Western Vascular Society. His current research interests center on frailty in vascular surgery patients. Why Utah? It’s a wonderful place to practice and live. The University of Utah is a top-tier institution situated in a beautiful state drawing patients from numerous surrounding states. We practice vascular surgery at the highest level with a healthy balance of endovascular and open procedures. When you are off duty, there isn’t a better place to be whether it’s snowing or the sun is shining.