Losordo, Douglas

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 and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, as well as the American Heart Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Society for Cardiac Interventions and Angiography.

Losordo joined the faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1983 and remained there for the next 23 years, being promoted to professor of medicine in 2004. In 2001 he was appointed chief of cardiovascular research at St. Elizabeth's, and in 2003, he was promoted to acting chief of cardiology. He joined Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in late 2006 as the director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute.

Throughout his medical career, Losordo has been heavily involved in many professional organizations. He has been a member of the committee of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Ad Hoc Study Section in Molecular Medicine and Atherosclerosis, the NIH Special Emphasis Panel in Tissue Engineering and the Atherogenic Micro—environment, and also the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Special Emphasis Panel. From 2006 until 2007, he was also the chair of the American Society of Gene Therapy's Cardiovascular Gene Therapy Committee. In addition, he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Losordo has served on the editorial boards of Cardiovascular Radiation Medicine Including Molecular Interventions, Circulation, Circulation Research, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Stem Cells, and Vascular Medicine. He is currently the associate editor of Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine and Circulation Research. He has written about 130 articles for many scientific and medical journals, including the American Journal of Pathology, Circulation, Endocrinology, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Microvascular Research, Radiology, and Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine.

At present, Losordo is the national principal investigator of a study taking place at 15 centers around the United States that are involved in the testing of the use of adult stem cells in patients who are suffering from severe angina. He has also been active with a study funded by NIH that involves the study of adult stem cells to help improve the ability of patients who are suffering from blocked arteries to walk.