COR Medical Appoints Roberts to Senior Editorial Board

HOUSTON (Jan. 19, 2015)—COR Medical Technologies (COR) announced today that Dr. William C. Roberts, editor in chief of The American Journal of Cardiology and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, has been appointed to its senior editorial board.

COR’s senior editorial board provides input on current medical research, conditions and treatments. The board reviews conditions and best practice treatments to provide instant decision support from the most current, vetted information available to treat cardiovascular conditions.

“Dr. William Roberts is a leading cardiovascular investigator who has published over 1,600 articles and coauthored 18 books, which makes him an excellent addition to COR’s senior editorial board,” said COR founder and CEO, Vincent Friedewald, M.D., F.A.C.C. “He is the recipient of numerous honors and has contributed information on virtually every major cardiovascular condition.”

Roberts is the executive director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute at Baylor University Medical Center and dean of the A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Health Care System in Dallas. He is also a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Science Center’s College of Medicine in Dallas. He did his training in internal medicine at the Boston City Hospital and at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and his training in pathology at the National Institutes of Health. Roberts graduated from the Emory University School of Medicine.

“I have worked with Dr. Friedewald for years at The American Journal of Cardiology and am thrilled to continue working with him and the other distinguished physicians on COR’s senior editorial board,” said Roberts. “Dr. Friedewald has shown an incredible passion to improve diagnostic accuracy and I believe CORcare can result in better outcomes for patients.”