I am the Prevention Moderator at CardioExchange. I am a practicing cardiologist at The Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where I am Director of the Cardiovascular Wellness Center. I am a preventive cardiologist and health outcomes researcher who focuses on how to best provide improved preventive cardiovascular care to appropriate individuals. In particular, my work focuses on disparities in care to older individuals and women.
I am a practicing Cardiologist in sunny Miami Beach, FL. My practice is mainly focused on the prevention and early detection of heart disease. I maintain academic affiliations with The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease and the University of Miami Cardiovascular Division. I operate a cardiovascular health blog for Hispanics, Corazon Hispano, and do a weekly television health segment for Telemundo's news show "Al Rojo Vivo." My research focuses on the impact of atherosclerosis imaging on risk stratification and prevention efforts.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. My research uses health services research methods to examine health care quality and delivery, particularly for older adults.
In addition to writing the news right here for CardioExchange, I write a blog at CardioBrief.Org. From 1999 through 2008 I was the news and features editor of TheHeart.Org. I have a PHD in English, spent a year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and-- by far my most impressive achievement-- I drove a taxicab in New York City for several years to support my education.
I am the co-moderator of the fellowship discussions at CardioExchange. I direct the Coronary Care Unit at Parkland Hospital and the Cardiology Fellowship at UT Southwestern. I split my time between clinical practice and teaching in general cardiology, administrative work, and clinical and population research. My research interests are in screening and risk assessment, particularly using cardiac biomarkers, as well as in clinical trials evaluating new treatments for patients with acute and chronic coronary disease.
I am Executive Vice Chairman of Medicine and Director of the Office of Educational Programs at the Univ of Texas HSC in San Antonio. I previously worked at UT Southwestern Med Ctr as director of the fellowship training program and the cardiac catheterization laboratory and at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the Chief of Clinical Cardiology. I maintain an academic affiliation with Johns Hopkins, where I record a weekly medical podcast. I have a long-standing interest in interventional cardiology and adult congenital heart disease. I currently practice general cardiology and bicycle with my long-time friend and colleague, Dr. L. David Hillis, with whom I co-moderate the Interventional discussions on CardioExchange.
I'm a health services researcher and interventional cardiologist at the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor VA Medical Ctr.
I'm a clinical nephrologist and researcher, based at The George Institute of International Health in Sydney. My interests are clinical guidelines, their application into practice along with measurement of health systems. I'm currently on a 12 month Commonwealth Fund scholarship as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale University.
I am co-moderator of the Cardiology Fellowship discussions in CardioExchange. I am the program director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship program at Washington University in St. Louis. I am a general cardiologist with an interest in preventive cardiology and am the director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program. I am co-investigator in several clinical trials, including those looking at novel treatments for acute coronary syndromes.
I am a Physician Scientist with a keen interest in the biology of the vascular endothelium. My lab uses basic research tools to probe mechanism-based questions that are relevant to diseases of human blood vessels. The clinical implications of basic research into the causes of kidney and heart disease is my lodestar. I have been an Editorial Board member of the New Engl J Med since 2002. I am also a strong advocate for Physicians showing leadership in living a healthy lifestyle with the "right" balance between work and home.
I am a cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart institute and serve as the Lauer Endowed Chair and Professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Academically, I am an outcomes researcher who focuses on understanding and improving patients' symptoms, function and quality of life. My dream is to help realize a healthcare system that provides care that is customized to patients' individualized preferences and values. I believe that this will be achieved by using risk-stratification models at the point of care to project patients' outcomes (survival and quality of life) so that the evidence is available to enable doctors and patients to appropriately individualize and apply therapy.
I completed a combined BA/MD program at Boston University School of Medicine, a residency in Family Medicine at at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and subsequently, fellowships in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (epidemiology), and in Clinical Genetics, at Yale University. I am board certified in Clinical Genetics as well as Family Medicine. My research is focused on cardiovascular genetics. I received a K23 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH.
I am a cardiologist whose major research interests include development and evaluation of efficient diagnostic and treatment strategies in acute ischemic syndromes, use of noninvasive testing (especially echocardiography) in cardiology and its relation to outcomes, and implementation of evidence-based practice in cardiology.
I am Co-Moderator for Interventional discussions. After completing my cardiology training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston in 1978, I served for 30 years on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where I worked actively in the Catheterization Laboratory at Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern's major teaching hospital. From 1993 to 2008, I was Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Residency Training Program. In 2008, I assumed the position of Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Since 1993, I have been a member of the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine.
An academic interventional cardiologist focused clinically on complex coronary and peripheral interventions with protected research time devoted to our Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (CCOR) group focused on health services research in cardiology. Our group is an affiliated collaborative of investigators from the Denver VAMC, University of Colorado Denver, Denver Health Medical Center, and Kaiser Permanente. Specifically I focus on health outcomes related to patients who receive PCI, peripheral vascular interventions and aortic diseases.
I am an Instructor in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. My clinical area of expertise is heart failure and transplantation and I also run a clinic dedicated to taking care of the cardiac complications of cancer therapy.
I am a Consultant Nephrologist, Salford Royal Hospital Trust and the University of Manchester. I have longstanding interests in atherosclerotic renovascular disease (ARVD), and I am co-originator and lead nephrologist for the recently published ASTRAL trial. Other research interests include CKD epidemiology and CKD-related vascular calcification. I have also played a significant role in amalgamating Cardio-Renal education and research within the UK.
I am an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and member of the TIMI Study Group in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. My clinical area of interest is in acute coronary syndromes and prevention.
I am an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Denver Health Medical Center (DHMC) and University of Colorado, Denver. I am the director of echocardiography and a general cardiologist at DHMC. I am also a health outcomes researcher with interests in quality of care, comparative effectiveness, and cardiovascular registries. Clinically, my research is primarily focused on acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, and implantable cardioverter defebrillators.
I am a Professor in the Cardiovascular Division at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. My clinical area of expertise is stable and unstable CAD and I am also interested in clinical trial design and interpretation.
I an a professor of Medicine and Director of the irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Columbia University Medical Center (home of our CTSA). My research is in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism. I work with cultured liver cells, mouse models, and humans.
I am Professor of Medical Cardiology at the University of Glasgow, Head of the Section of Academic Cardiology and Deputy Director of the Glasgow British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research at the University of Glasgow. I am also a Consultant Cardiologist at the Western Infirmary Glasgow. I have a special interest in heart failure and in clinical trials in cardiovascular disease.
I am a clinical electrophysiologist in Louisville, KY, practicing with Louisville Cardiology, PSC. My areas of expertise are in catheter ablation, cardiac device implantation and the hands-on care of people. My AF ablation involves many hundred cases dating back to 2004. Private practice has taught me much, and in recent years medical commentary has afforded me an opportunity to teach, which has always been a keen interest of mine.
I am a Professor of Medicine at UCSF Medical Center, and the Editor of Archives of Internal Medicine. My research interests are in technology assessment and use of new technology - cardiac CT, stents, new cardiovascular devices.
I am a PhD psychologist and I work as a post-doctoral researcher at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. My areas of expertise are behavioral factors, depression, and outcomes assessment in CVD.
I am the director of the General Internal Medicine division at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and serve as editor-in-chief of the literature review publication Journal Watch General Medicine. I am clinically active in both outpatient and inpatient settings, and have academic interests in clinical decision-making, bioethics, and critical review of the literature.
I’m a neurologist, and although I practice in an upscale suburban area, I sometimes seem to attract some remarkably “special” folks. I have no idea why. It just seems that weird crap happens to me or my patients. So I write about it here:
Dr. Grumpy in the House, a blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
I am an Instructor in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. I am also an investigator at the Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, MA.
I am Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine; Joint Appointment in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Director, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory at McMaster University. I am also currently a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School.
I am a health journalist who is co-author of Living Well with Heart Failure, the Misnamed, Misunderstood Condition http://livingwellwithheartfailure.com/ and I write a new blog on heart failure and other heart issues called HeartSense http://heartsenseblog.com/. I was a medical writer for 17 years at The Sun in Baltimore, MD and spent a year as a journalism fellow in Advanced Studies in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. I am co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers used widely in teaching science and medical writing at universities and I teach medical and science writing at Johns Hopkins University. Currently I am teaching Writing Health Stories for the Public to medical faculty. I served on the board of the National Association of Science Writers for 10 years and helped create the NASW annual professional workshops which I co-chaired in their first and second years. I am a former president of the D.C. Science Writers Association (DCSWA), was Freedom Forum Medical Journalist-in-Residence at Ithaca College in New York , and sit on the Managing Committee for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Awards. I was diagnosed with heart failure in 2003 and the problems I experienced during my three-and-a-half month search for good care prompted me to ask my fourth cardiologist, Edward Kasper, who has cared for heart failure patients for 20 years and is now Director of Clinical Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, to write the book with me about heart failure. I wanted to alert the public to this mushrooming health problem that catches many of us unaware. I recovered from heart failure.
I am co-moderator of the Fellowship Training discussions on CardioExchange. I am a third year cardiology fellow at University of Chicago. My clinical interests are in heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. I am doing translational research on heart failure induced pulmonary hypertension and will likely complete a heart failure fellowship in the future.
I am a partner in a busy 8 member cardiology practice in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I practice general cardiology. I am involved in the teaching program for medical students and residents from the University of Chicago.
Was very active with PNHP advocated for single payer system, but we missed our best chance in decades. Great working in the VA system where quality of care is generally excellent and there are no perverse incentives.
Chair, Board of Governors, ACC
Professor of Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School
I'm a cardiology fellow at University of Chicago, originally from New York. I have a particular interest in cardiology, health policy and the law.
First Year Cardiology Fellow
I am a cardiology fellow in the clinical investigator track at Emory University. My research interests include preventive cardiology, epidemiology, depression/PTSD, and gender disparities.
Married, four great children who are inquisitive, hobbies include amateur radio, travel, golf
I am the Director of the Center for Clinical Studies at Geisinger Clinic. I am also an interventional cardiologist.
Eric Rimm is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research is focused on the health effects of alcohol, micronutrients, antioxidants and fatty acids and also on plasma and genetic markers of heart disease. Dr. Rimm recently served on the 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee and previously served on the Institute of Medicine’s Dietary Reference Intakes for Macronutrients Committee, and is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Epidemiology and Prevention Council of the American Heart Association and serves on the Board of Directors for Project Bread -The Walk for Hunger. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts in such journals as the Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, Circulation,the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
I am a second year cardiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center. I plan to pursue advanced training in heart failure/transplant. I will be spending my 3rd and 4th years at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) focusing on the use of biomarkers in HF.
Beth Waldron is Program Director of the UNC Blood Clot Outreach Program and Clot Connect project in the Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I am interested in epidemiological outcome research, especially related to evaluation of cardiovascular imaging modalities & its potential role in identifying low risk individuals in whom aggressive treatment strategies can be safely witheld.
I am an award-winning journalist, blogger and author of
Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, winner of the NASW Science in Society Award. I teach journalism at Brandeis University and Mount Holyoke College. I blog on health care at
www.alison-bass.com.
Research in cardiovascular outcomes, cost-effectiveness, quality of care, particularly in cardiac imaging.
cofounder of www.heartsurgeryguide.net
I recently returned to clinical training for cardiology. Prior to this I was a practicing internist as well as a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. As an early investigator, I have taken advantage of different research modalities to pursue my 2 main areas of interest: quality outcomes for people with cardiovascular disease, and access to care for vulnerable populations. I am ultimately interested in bridging research with policy to improve care delivery and outcomes, as well as the overall patient experience with our health care system.I am a relatively new Mom (which I savor everyday), and am fortunate to have a supportive family to help with the work/home balance.
Like good food and exercise
RN since 1991, CV ICU thru 97, PACU thru 2000, cardiac cath lab to present in a research and quality data collection role. Track care issues related to cath lab and AMI
My clinical and research training background is in geriatrics and dementia, with a focus on preventing Alzheimer's disease. My outpatient clinical practice is in the VA Memory Assessment Clinic at the Madison VA Hospital. My clinical research focuses on the effects of vascular risk factors, specifically dyslipidemia, and the effects of treating those risk factors on risk for Alzheimer's disease.
I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale. My research focuses on improving the care and outcomes of older heart failure patients.
I direct the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease.
Dr. Justin Zachariah was awarded an NIH T32 training grant which enabled him to be the first pediatric cardiology trained visiting research fellow at the NHLBI’s Framingham Heart Study. He concurrently obtained a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. His areas of interest are in identifying biophysical and biochemical predictors of atherosclerotic disease in high risk children, including those with congenital heart disease. He is currently on staff at Children's Hospital Boston in Pediatric Preventive Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease.
My primary clinical and academic interest is heart failure/transplant/circulatory assist. I also have a broad general cardiology interest in my role as the clinical director of cardiology for University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
I am an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Director of the Program in Preventive Cardiology, and Associate Program Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Program. I am also Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation. My clinical and research interests are in preventive cardiology.
I am the Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapies at Columbia University Medical Center, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, NY.
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John Ryan, MD (Fellow in Training, Chicago, IL)
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David Cohen, MD MSc (Physician, Kansas City, MO)
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David Martin, M.D. (Physician, Sacramento, CA)
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