Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Duke Heart Center - Ambulatory Care
Director, Program for Advanced Coronary Disease
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
E. Magnus Ohman, MD, FRCPI, FACC, is Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of the Duke Heart Center - Ambulatory Care, and Director of the Program for Advanced Coronary Disease at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Ohman was educated at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, receiving his medical degree from the National University of Ireland. He completed his residency at St. Laurence's Hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital in Dublin, and a fellowship in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center, where he subsequently came on staff as faculty. After 10 years he accepted the position of Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the UNC Heart Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving there for nearly 5 years, before returning to Duke to create a new program for the care of patients with advanced heart disease.
Dr. Ohman's clinical research has been in the areas of interventional cardiology, reperfusion therapy, and risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes. He serves on the Executive Committee for the REACH Initiative, which globally examines adherence to secondary prevention in patients with vascular disease. He served as the Executive Co-Director of the CRUSADE National Quality Improvement Initiative which improved the adherence to the ACC/AHA guidelines to optimize care for patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome.
Based on his research, Dr. Ohman has contributed numerous peer-reviewed articles, and co-authored 2 books in cardiology. He serves as an Associate Editor for the American Heart Journal and is on the editorial board for several journals. Dr. Ohman is a recipient of the Edith Walsh Award from the British Medical Association, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal Society of Medicine, European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.