Professor of Medicine
University of California at San Francisco
Prof. John R. Teerlink, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.E.S.C., F.H.F.A., F.H.F.S.A., F.R.C.P.(London) is Director of Heart Failure (HF) and of Echocardiography at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He graduated from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors in Religion and Cellular Biology and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, completing his Internal Medicine residency and Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship at UCSF, as well as post-doctoral fellowships in echocardiography (UCSF) and HF (SFVAMC).
Dr. Teerlink is actively involved in the design and execution of acute and chronic heart failure clinical trials, serving on endpoint, data safety monitoring, steering and executive committees for numerous international studies investigating a variety of new pharmacologic therapies, as well as stem cell therapies, diagnostic modalities and devices. He serves as a consultant on pre-clinical and clinical development programs in multiple areas of cardiology, as well as in cardiovascular safety for non-cardiovascular indications.
Dr. Teerlink is an active member of the Heart Failure Society of America, currently serving as Immediate Past President. He also has served on the Acute HF Committee of the European Society of Cardiology HF Association and on the National Committee on HF and Transplantation of the American Heart Association. He is a charter physician member of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses. Dr. Teerlink has served on multille Advisory Committees and Panels of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for drugs, medical devices, diagnostics and biologics. He was an Associate Editor for the J Cardiac Fail, Guest Editor-in-Chief for JACC: Heart Failure and is currently an Associate Editor for the Eur J Heart Fail. Dr. Teerlink is a clinical scholar presenting hundreds of lectures and publications, including a chapter on Acute Heart Failure in Braunwald’s Heart Disease textbook.