Gregory J. Dehmer, MD

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Gregory J. Dehmer, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine where he is Medical Director of Quality and Outcomes for the Cardiovascular Institute. Dr. Dehmer earned his undergraduate degree from Carroll University (1971) and medical degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1975. He completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Following his training, he completed a 3-year obligation in the US Air Force as a cardiologist. Dr. Dehmer then returned to Dallas and joined the faculty at UT Southwestern as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the Dallas VA Medical Center. In 1988, he moved to the University of North Carolina as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. After 13 years at UNC and promotion to Full Professor, he moved back to Texas and became the director of the Cardiology Division at the Scott & White Clinic and Professor of Medicine at Texas A&M School of Medicine. In 2013 when Scott & White merged with the Baylor Health System in Dallas he was promoted to Vice President and Medical Director of Cardiovascular Services for the Central Texas Division of Baylor Scott & White Health. To be closer to family, he moved to his current position in 2018. Dr. Dehmer is a past president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and has served on the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He has participated on the writing committees of several national guidelines and other documents. These include the Clinical Competency Statement on Cardiovascular Interventional Procedures, Guidelines for Coronary Angiography, Expert Consensus Document for Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Expert Consensus Document for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions without on-site cardiac surgery, the Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Artery Revascularization and the 2020 AHA/ACC Key Data Elements and Definitions for Coronary Revascularization. He is an emeritus member of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) management board and is the Chair of the Public Reporting Advisory Group of the NCDR. He was Vice-Chair of the CathKit Task Force one of the first quality improvements efforts jointly developed by the ACC and SCAI. He served on the Board of Directors of Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE) and was instrumental in developing their standards for catheterization laboratory accreditation. He has published more than 225 articles and book chapters, has served on the Editorial Boards of Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and remains on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Cardiology. Dr. Dehmer completed a 5-year term on the Interventional Cardiology Test Committee for the American Board of Medicine in 2019. He is a Master Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (MACC) and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (MSCAI).