Dr. Richard Gray joined Tyler Heart Institute as medical director in 2009. Dr. Gray specializes in valvular heart disease and artificial heart valves, coronary artery disease, and preventive cardiology. He is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiovascular disease. He received his medical training at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and completed his residency with the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System. Prior to joining the medical team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, he completed an internship at the University of Vermont – Fletcher Allen Health Care and a fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As a cardiologist since 1975, Dr. Gray has focused his career on academic medicine, teaching, research, program development, and leadership as well as clinical medicine. Since 2002, Dr. Gray has been the medical director of Sutter Pacific Heart Centers at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and Marin General Hospital in Marin County, California. From 1996 to 2002, Dr. Gray was chief of cardiology at Regions Hospital of St Paul Minnesota and director of Cardiovascular Services for Health Partners of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and from 1992 to 1996, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. From 1975 to 1993 he was staff associate cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, serving from 1982 to 1992 as the director of Surgical Cardiology and from 1988 to 1990 he was the medical director of the Heart Transplant program at Cedars Sinai. Since 1977, Dr. Gray has been involved in numerous medical device development projects involving very early stage and small start-up as well as established corporate level activity. He has held appointments as professor of medicine at the University of California School of Medicine in Los Angeles, University of Minnesota, and at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. He has been principal investigator on many cardiac research studies and has authored numerous peer review publications, abstracts, book chapters, and a textbook. Dr. Gray has been actively involved in the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology throughout his professional career. In 1991 he served as president of the former greater Los Angeles affiliate, and has served in various leadership capacities at the former Dakota affiliate, Northland affiliate, and recently, the San Francisco division board and is currently the Western States affiliate president-elect.
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