Briefly: Vincent M. Figueredo has been a practicing cardiologist and physician-scientist for thirty years. His experience spans academic medicine, medical research, teaching, private practice, and senior hospital administration, including as chair of cardiology and professor of medicine. Figueredo’s research interests include how the heart responds to injury, alcohol, and stress. In more detail: Vincent M. Figueredo MD has been a practicing cardiologist and physician-scientist for nearly 30 years. Throughout his career, while taking care of hearts, Dr. Figueredo has continued to study the heart, trying to understand how it responds to injury, alcohol and stress. A recipient of 25 grants and a patent to understand heart disease, improve diagnostic heart imaging, and develop effective treatments for cardiovascular disease, Dr. Figueredo has worked with and taught students, residents and colleagues for over 3 decades. Recognized as a ‘Top Doctor’ by his peers, he has also been a recipient of multiple teaching awards. Dr. Figueredo has held numerous leadership positions throughout his career in academia and private practice, including chair of cardiology and vice chair of medicine, professor of medicine, program director for cardiovascular diseases fellowships, and director of the cardiac intensive care unit. He has directed cardiac rehabilitation programs, a lipid management program, a cardiology genetics clinic, and a resistant hypertension clinic. A former Pennsylvania governor for the American College of Cardiology and past-president of the Southeastern Pennsylvania American Heart Association board, Dr. Figueredo has also been a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Figueredo has published over 200 scientific papers in the medical literature and is a reviewer for numerous medical and scientific journals. Some recent, relevant publications by Dr. Figueredo include:

1. The Ancient Heart: What the Heart Meant to Our Ancestors. J Am College Cardiol. 2021;78(9):957-959.
2. Women in Leadership Positions in Academic Cardiology: A Study of Program Directors and Division Chiefs. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2019;28(2):225-232.
3. Sex Differences in Authorship of Academic Cardiology Literature Over the Last 2 Decades. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;72(6):681-685.
4. Impact of cigarette taxes on smoking prevalence from 2001-2015: A report using the Behavioral and Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS). PLoS One. 2018;13(9):e0204416.
5. National trends in hospitalizations and outcomes in patients with alcoholic cardiomyopathy. Clin Cardiol. 2018;41(11):1423-1429.
6. Marital status and living condition as predictors of mortality and readmissions among African Americans with heart failure. Int J Cardiol. 2016;222:313-318.
7. Heart failure and the holidays. Clin Res Cardiol. 2016;105(10):865-72.
8. Racial and ethnic differences in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy presentation and outcomes. Int J Cardiol. 2015;194:100-3.
9. Infective Endocarditis Epidemiology Over Five Decades: A Systematic Review. PLoS ONE 2013;8(12):e82665.
10. Meditation: Should a cardiologist care? Int J Cardiol. 2013;168(3):1805-10.
11. Alcohol and the heart: To abstain or not to abstain? Int J Cardiol. 2013;164(3):267-76.
12. Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy: A Review. J Card Fail. 2011;17(10):844-9.
13. Chemical Cardiomyopathies: The Negative Effects of Medications and Non-Prescribed Drugs on the Heart. Am J Med. 2011;8(4):233-7.
14. The time has come for physicians to take notice: the impact of psychosocial stressors on the heart. Am J Med. 2009;122(8):704-12. Vince Figueredo lives outside of Philadelphia on Five Fig Farm with his wife Ann, surrounded by dogs, chickens, beehives, vegetable gardens, and rescued donkeys.