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Board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. William Abraham is professor of internal medicine and director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center. An internationally known researcher in heart failure, Dr. Abraham has participated as prinicipal investigator in more than 100 multi-center clinical drug and device trials and has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American College of Cardiology and the Aetna Quality Care Foundation. In addition to authoring more than 350 original papers, abstracts, book chapters, and review articles, he serves on the editorial boards of several major journals including the Journal of Cardiac Failure, Congestive Heart Failure, and Journal Watch Cardiology. The findings from a study on cardiac resynchronization in chronic heart failure patients, led by Dr. Abraham, were published in The New England Journal of Medicine in June 2002. In May 2003, Dr. Abraham co-authored a study about combined therapies and the benefit to heart failure patients that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Abraham is a member of the writing committee to update the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Heart Failure Guidelines.
Experience
- Dr. Abraham joined the Ohio State University Medical Center from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine where he served as chief of cardiovascular medicine and as co-director of the Linda and Jack Gill Heart Institute.
Education
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Training
- Internal Medicine Internship and Residency
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
- Fellowship in Cardiology
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
- Fellowship in Heart Failure/Transplantation
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Clinical Interests
- Heart Failure and cardiac transplantation
Research Interests
- The role of the kidney in heart failure
- Neurohormonal mechanisms in heart failure
- Systematic and cardiac adrenergic activity in heart failure
- Clinical drug and device trials in heart failure and cardiac transplantation
Languages
Awards
- Outstanding Young Men of American, Harvard Medical School
- Physicians' Recognition Award, American Medical Association
- Jan J. Kellerman Memorial Award in the Field of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, International Society of Cardiology
- Best Doctors in America
Affiliations
- The Ohio State University Hospitals
- OSU Heart Center at Stoneridge
- Middletown Regional Hospital, Middletown, OH
- St. Elizabeth South Regional Medical Center, Edgewood, KY
Speaking Topics
- Heart failure management and cardiac transplantation
Email: William.Abraham@osumc.edu
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