Oral history of Myron Weisfeldt

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2015-09-24
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Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
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Dr. Myron "Mike" Weisfeldt attended Johns Hopkins as an undergraduate from 1960-1962, completing an accelerated medical school program. He then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, earning his M.D. in 1965. Weisfeldt went on to work as a physician at the hospital, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and, later, the Director of the Cardiology division at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Weisfeldt was the William Osler Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 2001 to 2014. He was also Physician-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1990, he served as President of the American Heart Association. In this interview, Weisfeldt discusses his time as a student, faculty member, administrator, and physician at Hopkins. This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series.
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Sarnoff, Stanley J., Weisfeldt, Myron L., Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine, Ross, Richard S., 1924-2015, American Heart Association, Zerhouni, Elias A., Brody, William R., Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia University, Watkins, Levi, Jr., 1944-2015
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