DouglasVaughanMD

Summary

• I currently serve as the Director of the Potocsnak Longevity Institute at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. I served as Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine here at Northwestern from 2008-2023. Prior to moving to Northwestern, I was Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, C. Sidney Burwell Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Physician in Chief of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee. I earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and trained in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, where I was also a Chief Medical Resident under Dr. Donald Seldin. I trained in cardiology as a fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and completed additional post-doctoral training at the Center for Thrombosis and Vascular Research, University of Leuven, Belgium. I am a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Councils for High Blood Pressure Research and Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology of the American Heart Association. I have been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Association of University Cardiologists. My research program includes basic, translational and clinical research focused on the role of the plasminogen activator system in cardiovascular disease and aging.