Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief

C. Richard Conti, MD, MACC, Dr HC, FCP(SA), FESC, FAHADr. Richard Conti
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Palm Beach Heart Assoc. Eminent Scholar (Cardiology)
Adjunct Professor of Physiology

Dr. Conti served on the cardiology faculty at Johns Hopkins from 1968 through 1974 as Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and was Associate Professor of Medicine. In 1974, he became Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Division at the University of Florida until 1998. He currently serves as Editorial Board member for American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, numerous others; author/co-author of over 700 scientific papers, book chapters, abstracts, and has edited six books and written two. He has served on the Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Diseases of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) as well as the Cardiology Advisory Committee of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), served as President of the American College of Cardiology from 1989-90, elected member of American Clinical and Climatological Association, Association of University Cardiologists, and Association of Professors in Cardiology; in 1991, received Honorary Fellowship from College of Medicine of South Africa (FCP-SA Hon.); in 1996, elected to Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars; and has received Gifted Teacher awards from Florida Chapter ACC in 1999 and American College of Cardiology in 2002. In June, 2000, he received a “Docteur Honoris Causa” from the University of Marseilles.