Cardiovascular
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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David D. Waters‚ MD
Emeritus Professor of Medicine in ResidenceDr. David D. Waters‚ now retired‚ was Chief of Cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital and the Maurice Eliaser Jr. Distinguished Professor of Medicine at University of California‚ San Francisco. He completed medical school at the University of Western Ontario and did his Internal Medicine training at McGill University. After completing his cardiology fellowship training at Emory University‚ he was a Canadian Heart Foundation Research Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Waters has published over 300 manuscripts‚ mainly elated to coronary artery disease‚ and has written more than 60 book chapters. He is a member of the editorial boards of several major cardiology journals and was an associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. His early research involved vasospastic angina‚ risk antithrombotic therapy for unstable angina. More recently he has directed clinical trials assessing the effect of a calcium channel blocker‚ a statin ‚ antioxidant vitamins an hormone replacement upon the progression of coronary disease‚ as well as other trials of cholesterol-lowering therapies.
