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Board Member Profiles
Dr. Douglas Waldo
Director of Interventional Cardiology at Tennessee Heart and Vascular Institute, Skyline Medical Center, Tennessee Heart and Vascular Institute
Dr. Waldo is an advanced level Interventional Cardiologist. He is the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Tennessee Heart and Vascular Institute, Skyline Medical Center, Tennessee Heart and Vascular Institute.
He obtained a BA degree in Biology at Dartmouth College , Hanover , NH and then completed medical school at S.U.N.Y Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo , NY where he was granted membership in Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society. He then completed an Internship and Residency at Boston City Hospital , Boston , MA . He then served as a Cardiac and Vascular Interventional Fellow at Wilford Hall, USAF Medical Center , San Antonio , TX . As a member of the teaching staff, he trained residents and Fellows in Cardiology and was involved in many clinical device research trials including the earliest stents, rate responsive pacemakers and transcatheter athrectomy protocols.
In Nashville , TN , U.S.A. , Dr. Waldo started the first coronary rotational athrectomy program, transesophageal echocardiography program and a more advanced peripheral vascular interventional program at Parkview/Centennial Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Cardiovascular Diseases, a Fellow in the American College of Cardiology, and the current President of the American Heart Association in Davidson County for 2005-2006.