Dr. Little holds the John S. Dunn Chair in Clinical Cardiovascular Research and Education, and is the Houston Methodist System Director for Structural Heart, and the program director for the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship program at Houston Methodist Hospital. A longtime ASE member, Dr. Little previously chaired the ASE Guidelines and Standards Committee as well as the Structural Heart Disease Industry Task Force. He served on ASE’s Board of Directors from 2015‐2018 before being elected to the Presidential Ladder in 2020. He is a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and adjunct professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. He received his medical degree from McMaster University and completed post graduate training in internal medicine and cardiology at Western University. He completed research fellowships in echocardiography at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. His research activities have focused on novel use of 3‐D echocardiography for the quantification of native and prosthetic valve dysfunction as well as imaging guidance for percutaneous structural heart interventions. Research funding provided by the American Heart Association, and the National Sciences Foundation.