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Interview| Volume 110, ISSUE 1, P145-159, July 01, 2012

WILLIAM EDWARD BODEN, MD: A Conversation With the Editor

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.02.035
WILLIAM EDWARD BODEN, MD: A Conversation With the Editor
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      Bill Boden was born in Rochester, New York, on June 21, 1948, and he grew up there. He graduated from the McQuaid Jesuit High School in 1966, from LeMoyne College in Syracuse with honors in 1970, and from SUNY Upstate Medical School in Syracuse, New York, in 1974. His internship and 2-year residency in internal medicine was at the Boston University (BU) Hospitals. Between his resident years, he was a research fellow in the Cardiology Section also at Boston University Hospitals. His clinical fellowship in cardiology was at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. His first staff position was at the Miriam Hospital of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was director of the coronary care unit. In 1986, he moved to Detroit as director of the coronary care unit and codirector of the cardiovascular clinical trials, and he was associate professor of internal medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. In 1989, he returned to Boston as chief of the section of cardiovascular medicine at the Boston VA Medical Center and professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. In 1994, he became professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, and in 1996, he returned to Syracuse as professor and associate chairman of the Department of Medicine of the State University of New York Health Science Center. In 2000, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, as director of cardiology and as program director of the Henry Low Heart Center and professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. In 2006, he moved to Buffalo as chief of cardiology at the Buffalo General and Millard Fillmore Hospitals and professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York School of Medicine. In late 2011, he assumed a new position as chief of medicine at the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center and vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albany Medical Center, where he will be a professor of medicine.
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