Biography

Ronald J. Oudiz, MD, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center and is a Faculty Cardiologist at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is a past holder of scientific research awards from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Oudiz received the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) Award of Excellence in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Care in 2011, the PHA Legacy Award in 2015, and in 2015 her was named a PHA Periwinkle Pioneer for his contributions to the pulmonary hypertension field. He has authored several papers in field of pulmonary hypertension and has presented his research at national and international seminars. Dr. Oudiz has been on task forces for the past four World Symposia on Pulmonary Hypertension, covering clinical endpoints, diagnostic testing, and right ventricular function & physiology. He is currently the Chair of the American College of Physicians CHEST Pulmonary Vascular NetWork, and is Chair-Elect of the PHA's Scientific Leadership Council (SLC). Dr. Oudiz is also a past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension. He has participated in several trials of innovative medical treatments for pulmonary hypertension, many of which are still ongoing. His research focus has been to describe the physiologic abnormalities that are caused by PH using measurements of lung gas exchange during exercise, and to study exercise rehabilitation as a treatment modality for patients with pulmonary hypertension.

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