Dr. Craig Sable

Advisor and Senior Investigator
Washington, DC, USA

Dr. Craig Sable is a globally recognized leader in cardiology echocardiography and telemedicine and has committed much of his career to addressing heart disease in Uganda through capacity building. As such, his work in surgical intervention training and echocardiography screening task shifting established the clinical and research groundwork that preceded and enabled the establishment of the RRCU. As a senior investigator, Dr. Sable provides scientific and operational guidance to the collaborative, while continuing to design and execute innovative approaches to performing and sharing echocardiograms for clinical care and research including leveraging handheld ultrasound, task-shifting, telemedicine and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Sable has been working in Uganda since 2003, visiting over 30 times to help advance echocardiography, catheterization and surgery at Uganda Heart Institute, improve care of children and young adults with congenital and rheumatic heart disease, support research in RHD, and train the next generation of cardiologists. He first became interested in RHD as a child helping to take care of his grandmother who was born in 1909, diagnosed with ARF as a young child and received one of the first double valve replacement operations ever in the late 1960s.

Dr. Sable holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (Illinois, USA) with a Medical Degree. Dr. Sable is the Associate Division Chief of Cardiology at Children’s National Hospital (District of Columbia, USA) and a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University (District of Columbia, USA).