Dr. Christopher Kramer

After receiving his A.B. from Harvard and his M.D. from UCSF, Dr. Christopher Kramer completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania. His first faculty appointment was at Allegheny General Hospital where he directed the cardiology fellowship program. In 1999, he moved to the University of Virginia where he was named the George A. Beller/Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Chief of the Cardiovascular Division in 2019. His principal research interest has been in the application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in translational and clinical studies and he has published over 330 peer-reviewed publications, 4 books, and over 100 book chapters, editorials, and reviews in the area of LV remodeling, myocardial viability, atherosclerotic plaque imaging, peripheral arterial disease, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). He is co-PI of a 2750 patient, 44-site, NHLBI-funded U01 international registry study of HCM and he directed a NIBIB-funded CV imaging T32 fellowship training program for 2 decades. He is the Immediate Past President of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and previously served as President, VP, and Treasurer. He has served as President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), Chair of the Imaging Council of the ACC, and member and chair of the Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences NIH study section. In 2015 he won the Gold Medal of the SCMR and in 2021 was named Distinguished Mentor by the ACC.