Congratulations to David E. Winchester, MD, MS, FACC, on being named incoming chair-elect of the ACC's Board of Governors. Winchester, who is the current ACC governor for Florida, will assume his chair-elect role in April 2024 following ACC.24 in Atlanta. He will serve as BOG Chair from 2025 to 2026, following Himabindu Vidula, MD, MS, FACC.

Winchester is currently professor of medicine and radiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and a senior medical adviser for the VA Office of Integrated Veterans Care. He is also the associate program director for the internal medicine residency and course director for the “Cardiovascular Disease” block in the UF College of Medicine curriculum. His research interests include health services research, noninvasive cardiac imaging, and appropriateness of care.

A native Floridian, Winchester earned his medical degree from the University of South Florida. After a stop at the University of Virginia for his Internal Medicine Residency, he completed his fellowship at the University of Florida. Following his training, he joined the University of Florida faculty with a full-time clinical position at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center.

Over the past 15 years, Winchester has served the ACC in a wide variety of roles, including chair of the Fellows-in-Training committee and as a member of the Curriculum Design Committee, the Accreditation Oversight Committee and the Solution Set Oversight Committee. He is also part of the ACC's delegation to the American Medical Association House of Delegates and recently led the writing group for the Appropriate Use Criteria for Imaging in Chronic Coronary Disease. Outside of the College, he has also served as director of the Advanced Fellowship in Cardiovascular Imaging and Associate Program Director for Quality and Research for the University of Florida cardiology fellowship.

"The Board of Governors is a dynamic group of individuals who bring exceptional experience and ideas to our profession and to the College,” says Winchester. “I am enthusiastically looking forward to serving as chair of the BOG and helping chapters and leaders to achieve their full potential."