Bernard J. Gersh, MB ChB DPhil FRCP FACC

Dr. Bernard Gersh is Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine and Associate Chair of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic.

His past positions include The W. Proctor Harvey Teaching Professor of Cardiology and Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Gersh received his MB, ChB, from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Gersh is a Fellow of the South African College of Physicians and Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom as well as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association.

Dr. Gersh’s interests include the natural history and therapy of acute and chronic coronary artery disease, clinical electrophysiology, adult congenital heart disease, the cardiomyopathies and the clinical implications of molecular genetics. He has written 620 articles and 124 book chapters. Dr. Gersh is the editor of 11 books and is on the editorial board of 25 journals including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Senior Consulting Editor), Nature Cardiovascular Medicine, and The European Heart Journal (Deputy Editor). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Reynolds Foundation, a Past Chairman of the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association, and a former Member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology. He has served on the Steering Committees and Data Safety Monitoring Boards of multiple clinical trials, sponsored by the National Lung and Blood Institute and other organizations.

Dr. Gersh’s honors include Teacher of the Year Award from the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, and numerous Visiting Professorships and Invited Lectures both nationally and internationally. He is an Honorary Member of the South African Cardiac Society and The South African Heart Association, and he is an Honorary Fellow of the Sociedad Chilena de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular. He is an Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr. Gersh was the 2004 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award of the AHA Council of Clinical Cardiology and the 2007 recipient of the ACC Distinguished Service Award.

Ph.D. (honoris causa) from The University of Coimbra, Portugal in 2005. He summited Mount Kilimanjaro in 2002.

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