Dr. Jorge R. Kizer serves as the Chief of Cardiology for San Francisco VA Health Care System and has so since 2018.
Dr. Kizer is also a Professor of Medicine in the University of California, San Francisco's (UCSF) Department of Medicine and has a secondary appointment in UCSF's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his masters in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Following his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and cardiovascular fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, he served on the faculty of Weill Medical College and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Kizer is an internationally renowned expert in the identification of risk factors for heart disease and stroke with the aim of improving prevention, risk stratification and treatment of these disorders. His investigations use molecular epidemiology and cardiovascular imaging to identify biochemical markers and endophenotypes involved in the initiation, development and progression of cardiovascular diseases. He is an investigator in several NIH-funded population-based studies, including the Women’s Interagency HIV Study, the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos, the Cardiovascular Health Study, and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, and his work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the American Heart Association.
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