Kenta Nakamura, MD, FACC, is a board-certified physician at the Cardiac Clinic & Services at UW Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. He is a member of the UW Center for Cardiovascular Biology and the Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Nakamura serves as the Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Harborview Medical Center and the Director of Preclinical Research for the UW Medicine Heart Regeneration Program.

Dr. Nakamura has clinical expertise in interventional cardiology and is deeply committed to discovering novel therapies for advanced heart disease. He is an active Principal Investigator on national and international clinical trials, and his laboratory has published extensively on regenerating the injured or failing heart. An internationally recognized thought leader in gene- and cell-based regenerative therapies, Dr. Nakamura leads a multi-disciplinary research program that leverages translational investigation, large animal physiology, and advanced cardiac imaging.

Dr. Nakamura earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, alongside post-doctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then completed advanced fellowships in interventional cardiology at the University of Washington Medical Center before joining the faculty in 2017.