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Program-At-A-Glance

Robert W. Biederman, MD, FSCMR

MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCMR
West Virginia University, Roper Hospital and Medical University of South Carolina. Morgantown West Virginia; Charleston South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Robert W. W. Biederman studied biology at the The Citadel / Baptist College at Charleston, before receiving his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, SC and his Cardiovascular Disease fellowship at University of Alabama (UAB). Dr. Biederman is one of the few NIH (UAB) trained Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging specialists and is Professor of Medicine at West Virginia University, Medical University of South Carolina and Professor of Bioengineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA as well as an Attending Cardiologist at Roper/St Francis where he now lives in Charleston, SC. He has long utilized CMR to answer important physiologic questions regarding aortic stenosis (AHA), the NHLBI sponsored STICH Trial of heart failure; one of the largest NHLBI initiatives to date, the LIFE trial evaluating hypertensive heart disease and the NHLBI-WISE trial. He has numerous publications in the field of pericardial diseases; and the first to conclusively prove the superiority of CMR in diagnosing certain types of pericardial diseases simultaneously validated in the operative suite.
Dr. Biederman's lab has sought to apply rarified uses of CMR for ever-expanding clinical indications and have consistently demonstrated that the reproducibility of CMR offers unique advantages over traditional approaches to clinical issues. He published the first MRI Textbook/ DVD series with a Foreword by Val Fuster, "Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Tutorial:
Lectures and Learning." Dr. Biederman has over 150 published manuscripts, >300 abstracts and >20 chapters and his CMR center remains one of the top 10 clinical programs of clinical and Research CMR in the country.

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