Dr. Hage is a cardiologist clinician-scientist with research interest in inflammation, vascular injury, endothelial dysfunction, cardiovascular imaging and the interaction between chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Hage is an Associate Professor of Medicine, the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Director of the Cardiac Care Unit at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. An experienced cardiovascular disease investigator, Dr. Hage has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and has mentored medical students, residents, fellows, PhD students and post-doctoral fellows in his laboratory. He serves on the editorial board of several journals and is an associate editor of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. Dr. Hage serves in leadership roles in many local, regional and national cardiovascular societies including as the chair of the education committee of the American College of Cardiology Alabama Chapter for which he chairs 2 annual scientific meetings per year. He is also the current president of the American Society of Hypertension Gulf Central Chapter and the Birmingham Cardiovascular Society. At UAB he is a member of the Research Development Group in the Department of Medicine whose mission is to promote the research enterprise within the Department. Dr. Hage has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature including in high-impact journals such as Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, American Journal of Pathology, American Journal of Physiology Heart and Circulation, American Journal of Cardiology, American Heart Journal, International Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Kidney International, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology among others. He has published many Chapters in widely references books including “Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology: An Imaging Companion to Brauwnwald’s Heart Disease” and the recently released 5th edition of “Nuclear cardiac imaging. Principles and applications”. |
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