Physicians

Department / Division
Medicine / Medicine - Cardiology

Address
DUMC 3236
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone
919-681-5816

Office Telephone
919-668-8830

Fax Telephone
919-668-7061

Training

• MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Pennsylvania), 1988

Residency

• Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Massachusetts), 1988-1989

Fellowship

• General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Massachusetts), 1989-1991
• General Internal Medicine, West Roxbury VA Medical Center (Massachusetts), 1991-1992
• Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1992-1995

Other Training

• MPH, School of Public Health, Harvard University (Massachusetts), 1992

Clinical Interests
Critical care and general cardiology, acute coronary syndromes, geriatric cardiology

Research Interests
Dr. Peterson is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. He is the Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Peterson also served as Vice Chair for Quality in the Department of Medicine (DUMC) from 2004-2010. His formal research training inlcudes an MPH from Harvard University with special emphasis in biostatistics, health economics, and decision analysis. Dr. Peterson is a leader in quality research, with over 660 peer-reviewed publications in the field. He is also the Principal Investigator for the NIH/AHRQ Duke Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs), Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Cardiac Surgery Database, Data Coordinating Center for both the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiac Database (ACC-NCDR) and the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines Database (AHA GWTG). He is also PI/Center Director for the American Heart Association's Pharmaceutical Roundtable Outcomes Center (one of four nation-wide) as well as Director of the Coordinating Center for the NHLBI's Centers for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research. Over the past 20 years Dr. Peterson has mentored more than 20 fellows, thus helping create the next generation of physician scientists.

Dr. Peterson participates on multiple national committees including Past Chair of the AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group; Chair of the AHA Strategic Planning Committee; Chair of the ACCF Task Force on Performance Measures; ACCF Appropriateness Criteria Implementation Working Group; the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Excecutive Committee, the National Quality Forum Technial Advisory Panel for Priorities, Goals, and a Measurement Framework; the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Large Simple Trials and Knowledge Generation, and Co-Chair of the National Quality Forum Outpatient Imaging Efficiency Project Steering Committee. He is the President of the American Heart Association's Mid-Atlantic Affiliate as well as President of the American Heart Association's Triangle Chapter. Dr. Peterson is also a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Council. He received the DukeMed Scholar Award in 2007. In April 2010, he was awarded the Fred Cobb, MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine. He is also a Contribuing Editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This faculty member (or a member of their immediate family) has a working relationship (i.e. consulting, research, and/or educational services) with the companies listed below. These relations have been reported to the health system leadership and, when appropriate, management plans are in place to address potential conflicts.

• Boehringer Ingelheim
• Janssen Pharmaceuticals (Johnson & Johnson)
• Lilly (Eli Lilly)
• Merck
• Sanofi-Aventis

Representative Publications
Patel, MR; Peterson, ED; Dai, D; Brennan, JM; Redberg, RF; Anderson, HV; Brindis, RG; Douglas, PS. Low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography. New England Journal of Medicine. 2010;362:886-895. (2010) Abstract

Albert, NM; Yancy, CW; Liang, L; Zhao, X; Hernandez, AF; Peterson, ED; Cannon, CP; Fonarow, GC. Use of aldosterone antagonists in heart failure. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2009;302:1658-1665. (2009) Abstract

Antman, EM; Peterson, ED. Tools for guiding clinical practice from the american heart association and the american college of cardiology: what are they and how should clinicians use them?. Circulation. 2009;119:1180-1185. (2009) Abstract

Chan, PS; Nichol, G; Krumholz, HM; Spertus, JA; Jones, PG; Peterson, ED; Rathore, SS; Nallamothu, BK; American Heart Association National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (NRCPR) Investigators. Racial differences in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2009;302:1195-1201. (2009) Abstract

Fonarow, GC; Peterson, ED. Heart failure performance measures and outcomes: real or illusory gains. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2009;302:792-794. (2009) Abstract

Glickman, SW; McHutchison, JG; Peterson, ED; Cairns, CB; Harrington, RA; Califf, RM; Schulman, KA. Ethical and scientific implications of the globalization of clinical research. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009;360:816-823. (2009) Abstract

Ho, PM; Maddox, TM; Wang, L; Fihn, SD; Jesse, RL; Peterson, ED; Rumsfeld, JS. Risk of adverse outcomes associated with concomitant use of clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors following acute coronary syndrome. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2009;301:937-944. (2009) Abstract

Lopes, RD; Hafley, GE; Allen, KB; Ferguson, TB; Peterson, ED; Harrington, RA; Mehta, RH; Gibson, CM; Mack, MJ; Kouchoukos, NT; Califf, RM; Alexander, JH. Endoscopic versus open vein-graft harvesting in coronary-artery bypass surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009;361:235-244. (2009) Abstract

Peterson, ED. Innovation and comparative-effectiveness research in cardiac surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009;361:1897-1899. (2009) Abstract

Tsai, TT; Maddox, TM; Roe, MT; Dai, D; Alexander, KP; Ho, PM; Messenger, JC; Nallamothu, BK; Peterson, ED; Rumsfeld, JS; National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Contraindicated medication use in dialysis patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2009;302:2458-2464. (2009) Abstract

Hernandez, AF; Shea, AM; Milano, CA; Rogers, JG; Hammill, BG; O'Connor, CM; Schulman, KA; Peterson, ED; Curtis, LH. Long-term outcomes and costs of ventricular assist devices among Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2008;300:2398-2406. (2008) Abstract