2025 Distinguished Scientist Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, FAHA, FAAP

Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, FAHA, FAAP

University of Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, MA, FAHA, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. He also serves as principal investigator of the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry and Chief Medical Officer of the Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation.

Dr. Lipshultz is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, both as an undergraduate and in their graduate school program in molecular, cellular and developmental biology and then the Dartmouth Medical School. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

His primary research interests are in pediatric cardiomyopathies, especially those of genetic/metabolic, toxic or infections/inflammatory etiologies. Clinical research on determinants of outcome for children with cardiovascular disease has been a major focus of interest as well.