Biographical Sketch
Brian P. Griffin, MD, FACC, is a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic . He is currently the holder of the John and Rosemary Brown Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine. His clinical interests include valvular heart disease, cardiac imaging, and ultrasound imaging through the esophagus.
His research interests include studying heart valve diseases, and he is currently seeking to determine if cholesterol-lowering drugs may slow the rate of progression of narrowing aortic valves. Dr. Griffin also is actively studying mitral valve prolapse. He is working with a group of physicians and scientists to try and understand the reasons why these valves prolapse. Dr. Griffin's research has been funded by a number of organizations including the American Heart Association, the MAREB Foundation and Pfizer.
Board-certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty in cardiovascular diseases, Dr. Griffin is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He also is a member of numerous national and international professional societies including the American Society of Echocardiography, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and the Council of Clinical Cardiology for the American Heart Association.
Dr Griffin is Director of The Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Training program at Cleveland Clinic (the largest in the country), is currently the Chair of the Laennec Committee of American Heart Association, a member of the Workforce and Training committee and of the Workforce Taskforce of American College of Cardiology, and is the U.S. Editor of Heart, the official Journal of the British Cardiac Society. He is Editor of the "Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine," a widely used handbook that is written by staff and fellows of Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Medicine. He has published widely on valve disease and cardiac imaging.
After receiving his medical degree from the National University of Ireland in Galway, Dr. Griffin completed his internship and residencies in medicine and surgery at University College Hospital in Galway. He completed fellowships in cardiology at Guy's Hospital, London; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Boston University Medical Center, and he completed a fellowship in cardiac ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In addition, Dr. Griffin completed research fellowships at the Irish Heart Foundation in Dublin, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Specialty Interests
cardiac imaging, valvular heart disease, transesophageal echocardiography
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