Director, Dr. Barry J. Maron, MD, FACC,
FESC
Dr. Maron received his Doctorate in Medicine from Tulane
University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA, and then
completed an internship in pediatrics at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and a residency in pediatrics at Stanford
University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA. After his fellowship in
pediatric cardiology at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Maron spent
21 years at the National Institutes of Health, where he was a
senior investigator and a staff cardiologist. Since 1993, Dr. Maron
has been at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, where he
served as a Director of Research from 1993 to 2000, and since then
has been the Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center and
a Senior Investigator. Dr. Maron is a nationally and
internationally renowned expert in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and
sudden death. He has authored and co-authored over 500 publications
in various medical journals, has presented over 200 abstracts at
major national and international conferences and has chaired many
conferences, congresses, symposia and summits on various topics in
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sudden death. Dr. Maron is a
Fellow, American College of Cardiology and a member of The Society
for Pediatric Research, American Heart Association, Council on
Clinical Cardiology and Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the
Young, American College of Sports Medicine, North American Society
of Pacing and Electrophysiology and a Fellow, European Society of
Cardiology. Presently, Dr. Maron is also an adjunct Professor of
Medicine at the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at Tufts
University School of Medicine. Dr. Maron is serving on the
editorial boards of the following medical journals: American
Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American College of
Cardiology, Journal of Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Procedures,
International Journal of Sports Cardiology, Clinical Cardiology,
Cardiovascular Imaging, Cardiovascular Biomechanics, Technology and
Surgery, Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness,
Cardiology in Review, Cardiomyopathy Section Editor, American
Journal of Medicine and Sports and The Journal of Heart
Disease.
The National Registry of Sudden Death in Young Athletes closely
works with the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center of the
Minneapolis Heart Institute and is a part of the Division of
Research of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.
