David D. Waters, MD FACC

Dr. David D. Waters was Chief of Cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital and the Maurice Eliaser Jr. Distinguished Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco from 1999 to 2007, and is now Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medicine. He completed medical school at the University of Western Ontario and did his Internal Medicine training at McGill University. After completing his cardiology fellowship training at Emory University, he was a Canadian Heart Foundation Research Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. From 1976 to 1992 he worked at the Montreal Heart Institute, where he was Director of the Research Center from 1988 to 1992.

Dr. Waters has published more than 300 manuscripts, mainly related to coronary artery disease, has written more than 60 book chapters, and has lectured in 40 countries. He is a member of the editorial boards of several major cardiology journals and was for several years an associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. His early research involved vasospastic angina, risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes and trials of antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapy for unstable angina. For most of his career he has been involved in clinical trials assessing the effect of different interventions, including hormone replacement therapy and cholesterol lowering therapy, upon the progression of coronary disease or upon clinical endpoints.

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