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Kim A. Eagle, MD, FACC
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Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine
Clinical Director of the Cardiovascular Center
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dr Kim Eagle is the Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Director of the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan Health System. He graduated from Oregon State University and from Tufts University Medical School. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital followed by research and clinical fellowships in cardiology and health services research at Harvard Medical School and The Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr Eagle then served The Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was promoted to Associate Director of Clinical Cardiology and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard.
Since his recruitment to the University of Michigan, Dr Eagle oversees a vigorous outcomes research program focusing on quality, cost-effectiveness, use of practice guidelines in cardiovascular care, evaluation and management of acute coronary syndromes, the evaluation and management of aortic dissection, and the use of modern mathematical models to assess outcomes and risk. He maintains an active inpatient and outpatient practice and is working with colleagues in creating the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center. His outcomes research team has led quality improvement initiatives across the state of Michigan in acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and coronary angioplasty.
Dr Eagle has served the American College of Cardiology as a director of numerous extramural programs, a member of its Guideline Task Force, Chair of the newly formed Task Force for the Development of Performance Measures in Cardiovascular Care, annual Scientific Sessions Program Committee, and is the editor of the American College of Cardiology’s Cardiosource Review Journal. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2001. |