He is the principal investigator of a study aimed to identify cardiac structure and function within the HCHS/SOL cohort of Hispanics. He has served on the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee and currently serves as Chair on the Association's Mid-Atlantic Affiliate Research Committee and the Genomics & Translational Biology & Observational Epidemiology Committee. He is also a contributing member on several large national cohort cardiovascular epidemiologic studies.