Robert Jay Lederman

Robert Lederman received his B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University in 1986 and his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in 1990. He was a resident, including serving as chief resident, at CWRU until joining the University of California, San Francisco as a cardiology fellow in 1994. In 1996 he spent a year as an interventional cardiology fellow at the University of Michigan, followed by a year at Duke University as a fellow focusing on peripheral vascular and advanced coronary interventions. In 1998, Dr. Lederman joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor of interventional cardiology. He joined the NHLBI as an Investigator in the Cardiovascular Branch in 2000 and was named a Senior Investigator in 2008. He has authored or coauthored more than 115 papers or book chapters. Dr. Lederman is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. He is also a member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He currently holds seven patents from his work.