Positions

• Co-Director - Advanced Coronary Therapeutics Program at Ascension Saint Thomas
• Medical Director - Chest Pain Center/STEMI Program at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West

Education & Training

• Medical School
  • University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Memphis, TN
• Residency
  • Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
• Fellowship
  • Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
  • Cardiovascular Disease, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
  • Interventional Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Clinical Interests

• Complex Coronary Artery Disease, including Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion PCI

Research Interests

• Drug development of novel anti-platelet agents to prevent and treat coronary heart events
• Co-owns two patents that relate to the role of Prostaglandin E2 in regulation of platelet activity
• Developing a clinical research infrastructure that leverages the scale of Ascension to answer important, pragmatic questions in cardiovascular disease prevention and management

Awards & Honors

• Alastair J.J. Wood Fellow Teaching Award in Clinical Pharmacology (2007)
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society