Professional Bio:

Gregory J. Dehmer, MD, MACC is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the former Medical Director of Quality and Outcomes for the Cardiovascular Institute at the Carilion Clinic and Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Dr. Dehmer earned his undergraduate degree from Carroll University (1971) and medical degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1975. He completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Following his training, he completed a 3-year obligation in the US Air Force as a cardiologist. Dr. Dehmer then returned to Dallas and joined the faculty at UT Southwestern as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the Dallas VA Medical Center. In 1988, he moved to the University of North Carolina as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. After 13 years at UNC and promotion to Full Professor, he moved back to Texas and became the director of the Cardiology Division at the Scott & White Clinic and Professor of Medicine at Texas A&M School of Medicine. In 2013 when Scott & White merged with the Baylor Health System in Dallas he was promoted to Vice President and Medical Director of Cardiovascular Services for the Central Texas Division of Baylor Scott & White Health. To be closer to family, he moved to Virginia in 2018. Dr. Dehmer is a past president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and has served on the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He has participated on the writing committees of several national guidelines and other documents. These include the Clinical Competency Statement on Cardiovascular Interventional Procedures, Guidelines for Coronary Angiography, Expert Consensus Document for Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Expert Consensus Document for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions without on-site cardiac surgery, the Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Artery Revascularization and most recently was the Chair of the writing committee for the 2023 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Coronary Artery Revascularization He is an emeritus member of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry management board and is the Chair of the Public Reporting Advisory Group of the NCDR. He was Vice-Chair of the CathKit Task Force one of the first quality improvements efforts jointly developed by the ACC and SCAI. He served on the Board of Directors of Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE) and was instrumental in developing their standards for catheterization laboratory accreditation. He has published more than 250 articles and book chapters, has served on the Editorial Boards of Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the American Journal of Cardiology. Dr. Dehmer completed a 5-year term on the Interventional Cardiology Test Committee for the American Board of Medicine. He is a Master Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (MACC) and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (MSCAI). Dr. Dehmer retired from medical practice in December 2023.