Dr. Frederick Ruberg Named Next Section Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine
The Department of Medicine is very pleased to announce that Dr. Frederick L. Ruberg will become the next Section Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, effective December 1, 2023. Dr. Ruberg will also be appointed as the Thomas J. Ryan Professor of Medicine. As you all know, he has served Boston Medical Center and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine for many years, having been initially appointed as a faculty member in 2005.
Dr. Ruberg attended the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He then completed internal medicine training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a cardiovascular disease fellowship at Boston Medical Center/Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, and a fellowship in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has served as Associate Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at BU/BMC since 2017. Dr. Ruberg has an active clinical practice as the senior cardiologist in the renowned BU/BMC Amyloidosis Center. An internationally-recognized expert in amyloid heart disease, he has co-directed or contributed to numerous collaborative clinical guidelines initiatives on cardiac amyloidosis, including the 2021 American Heart Association scientific statement and the 2023 American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus Decision Pathway document. In addition to his appointment as Professor of Medicine, he holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Radiology and directs the cardiac MRI program at BMC. A recognized scientific mentor who is committed to the development of clinician scientists, he serves as Workforce Development Program lead of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute and has been recognized with mentorship (2017) and citizenship (2022) awards from the Department of Medicine. Dr. Ruberg is Senior Associate Editor of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, and a member of the Association of University Cardiologists.
Dr. Ruberg is presently the co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded Screening for Cardiac Amyloidosis with Nuclear Imaging in Minority Populations (SCAN-MP) study, one of the largest NIH-funded studies exploring heart failure causes and outcomes in older, self-identifying Black and Hispanic patients. Dr. Ruberg is deeply committed to developing an equitable and supportive clinical and research environment at BU/BMC that champions our shared mission and values. To achieve this goal, he serves on multiple BUMG-sponsored committees organized to facilitate gender and racial equity at BU/BMC.
Dr. Ruberg’s appointment comes after an extensive national search. We would like to thank Dr. David Salant and the search committee for their work in this process. The Department would also like to thank Dr. Wilson Colucci for all of his efforts in building and leading the Section to its current position of excellence and prominence. We look forward to celebrating Dr. Colucci’s tenure of 26 years as Section Chief in the near future.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ruberg on his new role.