DOUGLAS W. LOSORDO is the director of the Fein—berg Cardiovascular Research Institute; professor of medicine and associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, having been appointed to that role in 2004; and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois. He graduated with a bachelor's of science degree from the University of Vermont, Burlington, in 1979 and remained at the university for the next four years, completing his medical degree, before taking up his residency at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, and then proceeding to a fellowship in molecular biology, interventional cardiology, and cardiology at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center. He is now board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology ...