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Dr. Paul Grayburn (Figure ) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 24, 1954. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1976 and The University of Texas (UT) School of Medicine in Galveston, Texas, in 1981. After an internship and residency training in internal medicine at St. Paul Hospital (a UT Southwestern affiliate) in Dallas, he completed his cardiology and interventional cardiology training at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He worked for 1 year as an instructor in medicine at the University of Kentucky Medical Center before returning to Dallas in 1988, where he practiced interventional cardiology and served as chief of cardiology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and was director of the echocardiography laboratories for UT Southwestern Medical Center. In September 2002, he came to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas (BUMC) as the medical director of cardiology research. Dr. Grayburn has coauthored >270 articles in medical journals and is author/editor of 9 book chapters. He has participated in several multicenter trials that have changed our understanding and management of cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Grayburn is an expert in echocardiography and valvular heart diseases. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer at numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Dr. Grayburn is the epitome of what an academic physician should be: an outstanding clinician, teacher, researcher, and mentor.
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Mina Benjamin, MD (hereafter, Benjamin): Today is March 21, 2012, and I am seated with Dr. Paul Grayburn at his office in the Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital. Dr. Grayburn, thank you for the opportunity to have this conversation with you.
Paul Grayburn, MD (hereafter, Grayburn): My pleasure.
Benjamin: Dr. Grayburn, let me start with your move to Baylor in 2002. What prompted your move from UT Southwestern to BUMC?
Grayburn: There were many factors that influenced my decision. I had worked closely with Dr. Bill Roberts since 1997, when he appointed me associate editor of The American Journal of Cardiology. He asked me several times if I might be interested in coming to BUMC. He arranged meetings with Mike Emmett and Kevin Wheelan, and I eventually decided to make the move. A major consideration was the enormous patient volume in cardiology, which is...