William Fearon

Biography

Dr. Fearon graduated from Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Stanford University Medical Center serving an extra year as a Medical Chief Resident. He completed a General Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology fellowship at Stanford, spending his third year as the Chief Cardiology Fellow. He is currently a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director of Interventional Cardiology at Stanford University. Dr. Fearon is board certified in cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology, and he is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation.

Research Interest

Dr. Fearon’s primary area of research interest is in coronary physiology. He was the US principal investigator and senior author of the FAME trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and is a co-principal investigator and senior author of the FAME 2 trial, also published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He has presented and published a number of abstracts and peer-reviewed papers in this area, and serves on the editorial board of Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, and Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. He is the principal investigator on an R01 award from the NIH evaluating cardiac allograft vasculopathy. Dr. Fearon’s clinical activities include not only percutaneous coronary intervention, but also transcatheter aortic valve replacement.