Robert L. Mcnamara

Robert L. McNamara was born in Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1964. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, in 1986, the M.D. degree from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, in 1991, and the master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, in 1997. He trained in internal medicine and clinical cardiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 1995. He completed his fellowship in echocardiography at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He continued as an Instructor of epidemiology with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, and an Instructor of medicine in cardiology with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, from 1997 to 1999. He practiced as a Staff Physician with the Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility, Navajo Nation, Chinle, AZ, USA, from 1999 to 2002. He then became a Faculty Member of cardiovascular medicine with Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, where he was an Assistant Professor of medicine from 2002 to 2006 and has been an Associate Professor of medicine since 2006. He was the Director of echocardiography from 2003 to 2012 and the Program Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship from 2007 to 2010. He has been serving as the Medical Director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Ultrasound School, New Haven, since 2003. Nationally, he has worked with the development of guidelines, data standards, and performance measures for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation and acute coronary syndromes. He works with Yale-New Haven Health System Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology to assess and improve the outcomes for patients with acute coronary syndromes and other cardiovascular conditions through registry research, risk modeling, performance measures, accreditation, and clinical trials. Internationally, he works with Yale Global Health Institute and collaborates with colleagues in U.K., Sweden, China, Russia, Rwanda, Uganda, Colombia, Argentina, Dominican Republic, and Honduras on medical education and clinical research projects. Finally, he is the President of a nonprofit group dedicated to medical education across the world, the International Team of Educators Advancing Cardiovascular Health (ITEACH). Mr. McNamara is a fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Society of Echocardiography.