PCME is an accredited provider specializing in innovative continuing medical education solutions.
PCME is an accredited provider specializing in innovative continuing medical education solutions.
Gregg C. Fonarow, MD (Chair)
Professor of Medicine, UCLA Division of Cardiology
Director, Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center
Co-Director, UCLA Preventative Cardiology Program
Associate Chief, UCLA Division of Cardiology
The Eliot Corday Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and Science
Los Angeles, CA
Gregg C. Fonarow, MD received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987. He completed his fellowship in Cardiology at UCLA in 1993. Currently, Dr. Fonarow is the Director of the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, Co-Director of the UCLA Preventative Cardiology Program, and serves as the Associate Chief for the Division of Cardiology. He attained the rank of Professor of Medicine in 2003. His research interests center on heart failure management and implementing cardiovascular treatment algorithms to improve clinical outcomes. New therapies and management strategies for advanced heart failure and research into this disease are conducted at UCLA under his direction. Since 1993, Dr. Fonarow has been heavily involved in the development and implementation of a hospital-based atherosclerosis treatment protocol at the UCLA Medical Center (Cardiovascular Hospitalization Atherosclerosis Management Program: CHAMP). This innovative program was the first to demonstrate that in hospital initiation lipid lowering therapy improves long term treatment rates, patient compliance, and clinical outcomes. He is also instrumental in the planning and execution of the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines Program, serving as the national chairman.
Dr. Fonarow has done extensive research in the areas of heart failure and cardiology, authoring more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He received the outstanding UCLA Cardiology Faculty Teaching Award in 1997 and 2004, and was honored by the American College of Cardiology with the W. Proctor Harvey Young Teacher Award in 1998. He was awarded an endowed chair in 2003, and received the prestigious American Heart Association Award of Meritorious Achievement in 2004.
