Dr. Allison Hays is the medical director of Echocardiography Programs of the Johns Hopkins hospital and health system. She is an associate professor of medicine in the division of cardiology. Dr. Hays leads a broad spectrum of clinical, educational, research and administrative activities with the core echo leadership team at Johns Hopkins, and has recently worked with the team to better integrate echo services across the health system.
Dr. Hays’ research activities and publications have focused on developing and applying functional cardiovascular imaging to probe the pathogenesis of subclinical heart disease in high-risk populations using novel echocardiographic and multimodality stress imaging techniques. She currently leads two NIH-funded imaging studies focused on determinants of early vascular disease and CVD risk on people with HIV and in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Dr. Hays recently received two mentorship awards for her outstanding research and career mentorship from Johns Hopkins and Woman As One foundation. In addition, she has participated in national imaging guidelines and position statements on the value of echo to improve patient care in a variety of settings.
Dr. Hays has been committed to ASE for the last decade. She attained FASE status and has served on the membership, standards and guidelines, and more recently participates in finance, CAVUS steering committee and the program committee for the society. She organized and lead two successful ASE webinars and help developed ASE educational materials for recent guidelines.
Dr. Hays received her undergraduate degrees (BA and BS) at Stanford University, followed by her medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Hays completed internal medicine training at Columbia University, followed by cardiovascular fellowship and advanced echo training at NYU and Johns Hopkins, where she has remained on faculty since the completion of cardiology fellowship. She is board certified in cardiovascular disease from the ABIM, and a diplomate of NBE for comprehensive echo.