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Raymond Benza, MD
Raymond Benza, MD
    Dr. Raymond L Benza is Professor of Medicine at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is also the Bob and Corrine Frick Endowed Chair of Heart Failure at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio where he also serves as the Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians and the American College of Cardiology. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine with certification in the subspecialties of cardiovascular diseases and advanced heart failure and transplantation. Dr. Benza currently holds a position on the Governance Committee at the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and is the former treasurer of the society. He served on President Barak Obama’s Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT) in the Health Resources and Services Administration for 4 years and was knighted in 2015 by his Royal Highness Vittorio Emanuele of Italy for his philanthropic work in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. His primary clinical interests are the evaluation and treatment of advanced congestive heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and pulmonary arterial hypertension. He participates in major clinical studies of new therapies for the treatment of heart failure, mechanical support, and pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Benza is a funded investigator for the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association for his work in pulmonary arterial hypertension focusing on risk stratification, pharmacogenomics and new device therapies for this disease state.
    Schedule29 Mar 2024