Douglas W. Losordo

Biography

Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Dr. Douglas W. Losordo is an interventional cardiologist specializing in the field of therapeutic angiogenesis for the treatment of cardiovascular-related diseases. He is Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Losordo is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in the use of gene, protein, and cell therapies to promote new blood vessel growth in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and critical limb ischemia (CLI).

Research Interest

In the 1980s, Dr. Losordo was a Research/Interventional Cardiology Fellow at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Boston, where he worked with Dr. Jeffrey Isner, a physician who pioneered clinical applications of angiogenesis for PAD and ischemic heart disease. He has served as Principal Investigator on numerous clinical studies of therapeutic angiogenesis, with a particular emphasis on using gene therapy to stimulate angiogenic growth factor production in patients with PAD and CLI. Dr. Losordo received his M.D. from the University of Vermont and completed his internship and residency at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Boston. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of prestigious peer reviewed publications and has lectured widely on the potential applications of therapeutic angiogenesis in cardiovascular disease. In addition to his medical degrees, Dr. Losordo holds a B.A. from the University of Vermont.