Dean J. Kereiakes

Dr. Dean J. Kereiakes is Medical Director of The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Medical Director of the Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education at The Christ Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Ohio State University.

Dr. Kereiakes has been an original investigator for most of the interventional technologies introduced in the last two decades and has performed more than 30,000 catheterization procedures. In addition to lecturing nationally and internationally, Dr. Kereiakes is very active as a clinical and scientific investigator and has participated in over 1,300 clinical research protocols. He has published over 800 journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He has served on the numerous editorial boards of prestigious, peer-reviewed journals, including Circulation, The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). Dr. Kereiakes received his medical degree and was valedictorian of his graduating class at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. His postgraduate training included internship and residency at the University of California, San Francisco, a senior residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and a chief residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He then completed fellowships in adult cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and in coronary angioplasty at the San Francisco Heart Institute and the Sequoia Hospital.