Clinical Interests
- Cardiology
- Heart failure
- Transplantation
Research Interests
- Molecular and cellular pathways that are responsible for the development of heart failure
- Genetics of heart muscle disease
- Gene therapy
- New therapeutic agents for cardiovascular disease including heart failure and peripheral vascular disease
Education
- MD, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Training
- Fellowship (Postdoctoral Research), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Fellowship, Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Disease
Memberships
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology
- Fellow, American Heart Association
- Fellow, Heart Failure Society of America
- Fellow, American College of Physicians
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Interurban Club
- Association of American Physicians
- American Clinical and Climatologie Association
- Association of University Cardiologists
- Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars
Awards and Honors
- Best Doctors in America®, Cardiovascular Disease, 1997-1999, 2007-2020
- Barry Coller Award, Association for Clinical and Translational Science, 2016
- Life Time Achievement Award, Heart Failure Society of America, 2013
- Life Time Achievement Award, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, 2010
- Rolex Achievement Award, 1997
- Alpha Omega Alpha, 1981
- Lewis Gottlieb Scholar Award, 1981