Sunil V. Rao, M.D., FSCAI

Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC
USA


Biographical Sketch:
Sunil V. Rao, MD, is Professor of Medicine at Duke University Health System, the Chief of Cardiology at The Durham Veterans Affairs Health System, and the Editor-in-Chief of Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. His main research interests deal with pharmacological and interventional therapies for acute coronary syndromes, as well as bleeding and blood transfusion complications among patients with ischemic heart disease. He has led several clinical trials in the interventional cardiology space and his research has been published in leading medical journals including the American Heart Journal, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and JAMA. Dr. Rao was the Editor-in-Chief for the ACC CathSAP 5 and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACC Collaborative Maintenance Pathway for interventional cardiology.

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