Ron Blankstein, MD, FACC
Twitter: @RonBlankstein
Chair, 2023-2026
Title/Institution: Director of Cardiac Computed Tomography, Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Training Program, and a Preventive Cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
Clinical/Research Interests: Clinical interests focus on methods to identify and treat early stages of coronary heart disease, prevention of cardiovascular disease, and diagnosis and treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis. Dr. Blankstein is an expert in the use of multi-modality imaging for the assessment of cardiovascular disease.
Title/Institution: Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago
Clinical/Research Interests: Echocardiography, transthoracic echocardiography, exercise and non-exercise stress echocardiography and trans-esophageal echocardiography as well as 3D echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Title/Institution: Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology, University of Virginia
Clinical/Research Interests: Multimodality imaging, microvascular disease, cardiac amyloidosis
Title/Institution: Director, Nuclear Imaging, OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians
Clinical/Research Interests: PET MPI, myocardial blood flow, hybrid imaging, amyloidosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, multimodality cardiac imaging
Title/Institution: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Director of Cardiac Imaging and Co-Director of Echocardiography, Brooke Army Medical Center.
Title/Institution: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Clinical/Research Interests: Structural heart disease and interventions; complex PCI; CHIP; Outcomes research
Title/Institution: General cardiologist and advanced structural imager at Sanger Heart and Vascular, Atrium Health in Charlotte NC and Assistant professor of medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Title/Institution: Frances Myers Ball Endowed Professor of Medicine and serves as the Vice-chief for Research for the Cardiovascular Division at the University of Virginia
Clinical/Research Interests: Echocardiography, multimodality imaging, molecular imaging.
Title/Institution: Medical Director – Cardiac Imaging, Lee Health Heart and Vascular Institute
Clinical/Research Interests: CV imaging in Cardio-Oncology
Title/Institution: Cardiologist, Multimodality Imager, Loma Linda University Health
Clinical/Research Interests: Multimodality Imaging, INOCA, MINOCA, Women's Cardiovascular Health
Title/Institution: Professor of Medicine and Radiology; Section Chief of Cardiovascular Imaging, CV Medicine, Stanford University
Title/Institution: Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Director of Cardiac Imaging
Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship Program
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Clinical/Research Interests: Clinical and research interests include the optimal selection between imaging tests and leveraging innovative technology in the delivery of patient care.
Title/Institution: Director, Cardio-Rheumatology Clinic, Associate Physician in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Clinical/Research Interests: Multi-modality imaging in Systemic inflammatory conditions | Coronary microvascular disease, atherosclerosis, coronary inflammation (FAI/PVAT) | Recurrent pericarditis
Title/Institution: Director, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center, UPMC Heart & Vascular Institute
Clinical/Research Interests: Utility of cardiac MRI, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, comparative effectiveness of cardiac imaging
Tina Battaile
ACC Staff Liaison
Email: tbattaile@acc.org
