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Milton Packer, MD
Endowed Title: Gayle and Paul Stoffel Distinguished Chair in Cardiology
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
Biography
Milton Packer is Professor and Chair for the Department of Clinical Sciences at UT Southwestern, having recently moved from Columbia University in New York, where he was Chief, Division of Circulatory Physiology, Director of the Heart Failure Center, Professor of Pharmacology, and an attending physician at Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
After receiving his MD from Jefferson Medical College in 1973, Dr. Packer carried out his internship and residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and completed his fellowship in cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He has taken a leading role in the development of new heart failure drugs and has been principal investigator and chairman of 14 steering committees for major clinical trials, including, more recently, COPERNICUS, REACH-1, ENABLE, AQUAVIT, REVIVE and EPOCH.
Education
| Graduate School | Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,Pa., Medicine (1973) |
| Undergraduate | Pennsylvania State University Main Campus (1969) |
Research Interests
Publications
Packer M , Am J Cardiology , October 2006; (Vol. 98, No. 7, Supp.1):67-69
Packer M, Lukas MA, Tenero DM, Baidoo CA, Greenberg BH; 369 Study Group. , Am J Cardiology , October 2006; (Vol. 98, No. 7, Supp. 1):39-45
Alexandre Mebazaa, MD, PhD; Markku S. Nieminen, MD, PhD; Milton Packer, MD; Alain Cohen-Solal, MD, PhD; Franz X. Kleber, MD; Stuart J. Pocock, PhD; Roopal Thakkar, MD; Robert J. Padley, MD; Pentti P?der, MD, PhD; Matti Kivikko, MD, PhD; for the SURVIVE Investigators , JAMA , May 2007; (Vol. 297, No. 17):1883-1891
Packer M, Abraham WT, Mehra MR, Yancy CW, Lawless CE, Mitchell JE, Smart FW, Bijou R, O’Connor CM, Massie BM, Pina IL, Greenberg BH, Young JB, Fishbein DP, Hauptman PJ, Bourge RC, Strobeck JE, Murali S, Schocken D, Teerlink JR, Levy WC, Trupp RJ, Silver MA; Prospective Evaluation and Identification of Cardiac Decompensation by ICG Test (PREDICT) Study Investigators and Coordinators. , JACC , June 2006; (Vol. 47, No. 11):2245-2252
Camille G. Frazier MD, Karen P. Alexander MD, L. Kristin Newby MD, MHS, Susan Anderson MS?, Erik Iverson MS?, Milton Packer MD?, Jay Cohn MD?, Sidney Goldstein MD and Pamela S. Douglas MD , JACC , April 2007; (Vol. 49, No. 13):1450-1458
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Honors/Awards
Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1988)
National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute, The National Institutes of Health (1984)
Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1983)
National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute, The National Institutes of Health (1980)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1977)