Luis Gowdak

Luis Henrique Gowdak, MD, PhD, FESC, is Professor of Cardiology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Clinical Scientist at the Heart Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. He graduated in medicine from the University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil, in 1991. His residency in Internal Medicine and Clinical Cardiology at the Heart Institute was followed by a fellowship at the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, NIA, NIH, in Baltimore, USA (1997-99), working on therapeutic angiogenesis.

He is particularly interested in coronary artery diseases and founded the first Refractory Angina Research and Study Group in Brazil. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and has served as principal or sub-investigator in numerous national/international clinical trials/registries. According to Google Scholar, he has about 1,900 citations with an h-index of 22.