Kendrick A. Shunk
Kendrick A. Shunk
Kendrick Shunk
Director
Interventional Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratory Research
San Francisco VA Medical Center
USA
Biography
Dr. Kendrick Shunk is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of
Cardiology and Director of Interventional
Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratory Research at San Francisco VA Medical Center. His primary research interests are in atherosclerotic plaque imaging and Interventional
Cardiology clinical trials. He is a previous Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator (AHA), and developed a novel technique for assessment of the aorta and its atherosclerotic plaques by Transesophageal
Magnetic Resonance Imaging. A related research goal and interest is integration, co-registration and co-display of multi-modality image information for assessing and treating cardiovascular disease in real time. Dr. Shunk is involved in various multi-center
clinical trials of devices/strategies in the cardiac cath lab including a multi-center VA study for which he maintains the core angiography laboratory. He is also actively involved in the ACC-NCDR Research and Publications committee and supports projects that take advantage of that resource. Dr. Kendrick Shunk is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of
Cardiology and Director of Interventional
Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratory Research at San Francisco VA Medical Center. His primary research interests are in atherosclerotic plaque imaging and Interventional
Cardiology clinical trials. He is a previous Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator (AHA), and developed a novel technique for assessment of the aorta and its atherosclerotic plaques by Transesophageal
Magnetic Resonance Imaging. A related research goal and interest is integration, co-registration and co-display of multi-modality image information for assessing and treating cardiovascular disease in real time. Dr. Shunk is involved in various multi-center
clinical trials of devices/strategies in the cardiac cath lab including a multi-center VA study for which he maintains the core angiography laboratory. He is also actively involved in the ACC-NCDR Research and Publications committee and supports projects that take advantage of that resource.
Research Interest
multi-center clinical trials of devices/strategies in the cardiac cath lab including a multi-center VA study
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