Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA, Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics (Division of Cardiac Critical Care)

Dr. Matsiukevich is a pediatric cardiac critical care faculty in St. Louis Children's hospital. He received his medical training in Belarus and continued to advance his specialty in pediatrics and sub-specialization in pediatric critical care and cardiology. His ongoing research interest is heart failure and metabolic derangements during ischemia and reperfusion. He investigates the Fibroblast Growth Factor's signaling mechanisms and its impact on systolic and diastolic heart dysfunction. His current focus is to describe a novel model of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and demonstrate the pathophysiological mechanisms of its development.