Ray E. Hershberger, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Human Genetics in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, in Columbus, Ohio, USA. As a cardiologist who is sub-specialty board certified in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, Dr. Hershberger is also jointly appointed in the OSU Cardiovascular Division. Since moving to Ohio State, his clinical practice has been devoted largely to cardiovascular genetic and genomic medicine.
Dr. Hershberger’s principal research focus has been to discover the genetic basis of dilated cardiomyopathy and translate those findings into the practice of cardiovascular medicine. He has been funded by National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health for this work since 1998, and has authored numerous scientific articles, reviews and guideline statements for the field. He now leads the DCM Consortium, a multisite investigative group, in a major study to test the hypothesis that most of DCM without known cause has a genetic basis.