David Waters

Background

About David Waters

Dr. David D. Waters is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He was Chief of Cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital and the Maurice Eliaser Jr. Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UCSF from to 2007. He completed medical school at the University of Western Ontario and did his Internal Medicine training at McGill University. After completing his cardiology fellowship training at Emory University, he was a Canadian Heart Foundation Research Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. From 1976 to 1992 he worked at the Montreal Heart Institute, where he was Director of the Research Center from 1988 to 1992. Dr. Waters has published more than 400 manuscripts, mainly related to coronary disease, has written more than 60 book chapters, and has lectured in 60 countries. For several years he has been named one of the Best Doctors in America. He was a member of the editorial boards of several major cardiology journals and for several years was an associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. For most of his career he has been involved in clinical trials assessing the effect of different therapies, particularly cholesterol lowering drugs, upon the progression of coronary disease or upon clinical endpoints. Since 2024 he has been writing short stories and flash fiction. His stories has appeared in Cleaver, The MacGuffin, JMWW, Peatsmoke Journal, Brilliant Flash Fiction and a dozen others. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and Best of the Web. Specialties: clinical trials, atherosclerosis drugs