William Abraham

Dr. William Abraham’s research interests include hemodynamic and neurohormonal mechanisms in heart failure, sleep disordered breathing in heart failure, and clinical drug and device trials in heart failure and cardiac transplantation. Dr. Abraham has participated in all regulatory phases of new drug and device development from pre-clinical evaluation to Pre-Market Approval (PMA) and New Drug Application (NDA) submission and approval.

In addition to his role as Scientific Advisor for Cardionomic, Dr. Abraham also serves as Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Ohio State University College of Medicine. He previously held faculty appointments at the University of Colorado, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Kentucky. Dr. Abraham earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and after that he completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, he spends the majority of his clinical time managing heart failure patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Dr. Abraham is the author of more than 700 original papers, abstracts, book chapters, and review articles. He has also co-authored national heart failure practice guidelines and co-edited Heart Failure: A Practical Approach to Treatment, a leading textbook on heart failure. He continues to serve on the editorial boards of several major journals.