Dr. Matthew J. Budoff
Matthew
J. Budoff, M.D., FACC
is Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of
Medicine at the UCLA and is the Director of Cardiac CT at the Los
Angeles
Biomedical Research Center at Harbor — UCLA Medical Center in
Torrance,California. He is a graduate of the University of California at
Riverside and earned his medical degree from the George Washington
University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency
in internal medicine, as well as his cardiology fellowship, at
Harbor–UCLA Medical Center.
Matt is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the
American Heart Association. He is the immediate past-President of the
Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention (SAI-P) and President
and founding Board Member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT).
Previously, he served as chair of: the ACC/AHA Competency document for
cardiac CT and MR; the COCATS 2 — CT Section (ACC training for
fellows); as well as a recent AHA Scientific Statement on Cardiac CT.
He is on the board of both the American College
of Cardiology and the American Heart Association for Southern
California.
Matt has conducted extensive research over the last 19 years
using
cardiac CT to identify those patients at high-risk for cardiac events,
progression of coronary calcium, and non-invasive CT angiography. He has
published over 250 articles, book chapters, and books on these topics.
He coedited
Cardiac CT Imaging: Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease,
Handbook of Cardiovascular CT: Essentials for Clinical
Practice, and
Atlas of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
Watch
Dr. Matthew Budoff on Singulex Advanced Cardiovascular
Monitoring and
2007 Prostate Cancer Conf. — Cardiac Issues: Dr. Matt
Budoff.
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