Bonow to present Willerson Lecture
The Department of Internal Medicine presents the James T. Willerson Annual Endowed Lecture at noon, Feb. 27 in MSB 3.001 and virtually via Zoom.
The 2025 edition of the lecture features Robert O. Bonow, MD, Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. Bonow will present on “Aortic Valve Disease: New Insights, New Options, New Challenges.”
Bonow also served as the senior investigator and deputy chief of the Cardiology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the NIH from 1980 until 1992 and was chief of the Division of Cardiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine from 1992 until 2011.
His research focuses on the application of cardiovascular imaging to investigate the natural history and clinical outcomes of patients with valvular heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and ischemic left ventricular dysfunction. He has co-authored over 650 papers and 120 book chapters and has served as the editor-in-chief of Jama Cardiology and editor of Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine.
He has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors and the board of Extramural Advisors for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, is a past president of the American Heart Association, and a master of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians.
Named in honor of the late James T. Willerson, MD, the lecture is presented annually by the Department of Internal Medicine.