Jeffrey Borer
Jeffrey S. Borer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, Radiology and Surgery Chairman, Department of Medicine, and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Director, The Howard Gilman Institute for Heart Valve Diseases and the Cardiovascular Translational Research Institute State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
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Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D., is Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, Radiology and Surgery at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. He is Chairman, Department of Medicine and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Director of two research institutes at Downstate.
Dr. Borer received his BA from Harvard, his M.D. from Cornell, trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital, spent 7 years in the Cardiology Branch of the NHLBI and a year at Guy's Hospital in London as a Senior Fullbright Hays Scholar and Glorney-Raisbeck Fellow in the Medical Sciences, where he completed the first clinical demonstration of nitroglycerin's utility in acute myocardial infarction following several years of preclinical enabling studies that he performed at NIH.
Upon returning to the NIH, he developed stress radionuclide cineangiography, enabling for the first time the non-invasive assessment of cardiac function with exercise. He returned to Cornell for 30 years as Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology. At Cornell and now at SUNY Downstate, in addition to teaching and clinical service, his research primarily has involved developing prognosticators for regurgitant valve diseases, exploring the cellular/molecular myocardial biology of valve diseases, and assessing the effects of heart rate modulation on clinical outcomes, with trials in coronary artery disease and heart failure.
He has been an Advisor to the USFDA for 35 years, chairing the CardioRenal Drugs Advisory Committee for 3 terms, and the Circulatory Devices Advisory Panel for one term, was a life sciences Advisor to NASA for 24 years, has served as officer or board member of several national professional societies (current President of the Heart Valve Society of America), has published almost 450 scientific papers and 5 books, is editor-in-chief of the journal, Cardiology, and has received several awards and other recognitions for his work.
Roundtables Participated:
Aortic Valve Disease in the Elderly: When is Surgery Indicated? What Can be Expected in a Follow Up?
Critique of Randomized Controlled Trials Comparing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Medical Therapy in Patients with Stable Angina
Heart Disease in Women
Modern Technology Has Not Replaced the Cardiac Physical Exam
Pharmacological Therapy for Regurgitant Valve Lesions: Does It Really Work?
The Role of Heart Rate Modulation for Care of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure