Dr. Benza is an internationally renowned clinician and research scientist in heart failure, cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, and pulmonary hypertension. He has helped develop a new risk algorithm for pulmonary hypertension that has modified the nation’s lung allocation process to ensure a fairer distribution of donor lungs for patients with end-stage pulmonary diseases. Dr. Benza was named Physician of the Year by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association in 2013 and has served on multiple boards, committees, and councils related to his work on pulmonary vascular diseases. He is a funded investigator for the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association and has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals in addition to several book chapters.