Pascal J. Goldschmidt
Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and dean, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami

Pascal J. Goldschmidt became senior vice president for medical affairs and dean of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in April 2006. Before coming to UM he was Edward S. Orgain Professor of Cardiology and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. An internationally renowned cardiologist whose research applies genomics and cell therapy to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, Dr. Goldschmidt was previously chief of Duke’s Division of Cardiology. Before joining the Duke faculty in 2000 he was director of cardiology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, where he built the Heart and Lung Research Institute and a heart hospital. Dr. Goldschmidt received his medical degree from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and completed residency and fellowship training in Brussels at Erasme Academic Hospital and in the United States at Johns Hopkins University.