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(Circulation. 2009;119:754-760.)
© 2009 American Heart Association, Inc.

Careers in Cardiovascular Research

Academic Careers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD; Sarina van der Zee, MD; Sammy Elmariah, MD; Robert O. Bonow, MD

From the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Cardiovascular Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (V.F., S.v.d.Z., S.E.), and Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill (R.O.B.).

Correspondence to Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1030, New York, NY 10029. E-mail valentin.fuster@mssm.edu

Key Words: training • health occupations • mentors • research personnel

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	Introduction

 
With aging of the US population and continued success in prolonging survival of patients with cardiovascular disease, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease will increase exponentially in the next several decades.¹ The anticipated supply of cardiovascular specialists will be insufficient to meet the demands of this increasing disease burden. A shortage already exists of cardiologists as a whole, and this shortage has translated to an even greater undersupply of academic cardiovascular specialists as fewer and fewer physicians who enter the field pursue academic positions. Prolonged training periods, expanding debt burdens, increasing discrepancies between salaries in academic and private practice positions, and a perceived lack of funding for research continue to push cardiologists into the private sector. The cardiovascular clinician-scientist is an endangered species. So the question arises: How do we combat these real and perceived threats and increase the number of young cardiologists choosing careers in academic cardiovascular medicine?

The purpose of this series of articles in Circulation is to provide trainees and new faculty with a practical guide to launching a successful research career in cardiovascular medicine across the spectrum of cardiovascular specialties and across the strata of scientific investigation. The primer will provide advice for choosing a mentor; selecting a research project; identifying funding opportunities; selecting a research career pathway among the many opportunities in basic, clinical, epidemiologic, outcomes, and translational research; writing a grant; publishing a paper; finding a job; and making the transition from fellow to faculty. In addition, issues on ethics in cardiovascular research and specific . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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