The History of Heart Failure
JAMES B. YOUNG, MD
Professor of Medicine & Executive Dean,
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
George & Linda Kaufman Chair
Chairman, Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Jim Young is Chairman of the Division of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Professor of Medicine and Academic Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a Medical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Kaufman Center for Heart Failure.
Dr. Young attended the University of Kansas where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in biology. He matriculated to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he was awarded his Medical Doctor degree cum laude and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. Dr. Young remained in Houston at the Baylor Affiliated Hospital System to complete his clinical training as an intern and resident becoming a Professor of Medicine with Tenure in 1992. He was the Clinical Coordinator and Scientific Director for Dr. Michael E. DeBakey’s Multi-organ Transplant Center at The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. He subsequently relocated to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1995 when he became Head of the Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine in the Department of Cardiovascular Disease.
In 1998 Dr. Young along with his surgical colleague Dr. Patrick McCarthy, created the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure at the Cleveland Clinic where he now serves as one of the medical directors.
Dr. Young finds medical history fascinating and has written several articles on various historical topics in medicine.