Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Institute
Leadership and staff
Physician leadership
John F. Eidt, MD
Vice Chair of Vascular Surgical Services
A Dallas native, Dr. Eidt is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Southwestern Medical School, in 1981. He completed his residency in general surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, a clinical vascular fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a vascular research fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and an endovascular surgery fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Eidt serves as co-editor of Scientific American Vascular Surgery and as a member of the editorial board of Vascular Specialist.
Paul A. Grayburn, MD
Director of Cardiology Research and the Non-Invasive Laboratory, Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital – Dallas
Dr. Grayburn is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Texas A&M in College Station, TX, were he also graduated. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1981. He completed a residency in internal medicine at St. Paul Medical Center in Dallas, TX, and fellowships in cardiology and interventional cardiology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. He recently completed research focused on developing ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction as a means of delivering gene therapy to the heart.
He has served in leadership roles in several multicenter trials (BEST, STICH, EVEREST II, COAPT, CTSN, Apollo) and directs an echocardiographic core laboratory for clinical trials in valvular heart disease. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging, the American Journal of Cardiology and Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team. Dr. Grayburn has published more than 400 manuscripts or book chapters in peer-reviewed journals.
Milton Packer, MD
Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Science, Baylor University Medical Center
Dr. Packer is an internationally recognized clinical investigator who has made many seminal contributions to the field of heart failure, both in understanding its mechanism and defining its rational management. His work has spanned nearly 40 years serving as an investigator for the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration and has been strongly supported by numerous investigator-initiated grants from the National Institutes of Health industry. Dr. Packer’s research established the cornerstone of the current modern treatments for heart failure, for which he received the Lewis Katz Lifetime Achievement Award from the Heart Failure Society of America.
He graduated from Pennsylvania State University and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA, in 1973. Dr. Packer completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1976 and fellowships in Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1977 and 1978. He was president of the Heart Failure Society of America from 2000-2002 and has served on numerous guidelines and standards committees for the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology.