John Rutherford, M.D. Vice President Professor Endowed Title Jonsson-Rogers Chair in Cardiology School Medical School Department Clinical Operations | Internal Medicine You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Rutherford was born and educated in New Zealand and in 1976 was awarded a traveling Research Fellowship of the National Heart Foundation of New Zealand. From 1976-78 he was a Research Fellow in Medicine Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston and was recruited to the Harvard Faculty in 1978 as a Cardiologist. He was appointed Co-Director of the Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1980. In 1981 he returned to New Zealand as a Cardiologist at Green Lane Hospital in Auckland and served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the National Heart Foundation and as Honorary Secretary/Treasurer of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. In 1985 he returned to Harvard Medical School as Co-Director of the Clinical Cardiology Service at the Brigham and Women’ Hospital. He won the George W. Thorn Award for Outstanding Contribution to Clinical Education 1988-89. He joined the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center as Professor of Medicine in 1993, and holder of the Gail Griffiths Hill Chair in Cardiology. In 1995, he received the Distinguished Physician Award in recognition of outstanding individual contribution to Parkland Memorial Hospital and in 1997 was appointed Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. He was President of the Medical Staff Parkland Health and Hospital Systems 1998-2000. In 2001, he was appointed Vice President of Clinical Operations, UT Southwestern Medical Center. In 2005 he was named the holder of the Jonsson-Rogers Chair in Cardiology. He has been selected as one of the Best Doctors in America from 2001 to 2012. He received the Gifted Educator Award of The American College of Cardiology 2011. Education Medical School University of Otago (1969) Internship Auckland Hospital/Board Teaching Hospital (1970), Cardiology Residency Auckland Hospital/Board Teaching Hospital (1972), Cardiology Fellowship Auckland Hospital/Board Teaching Hospital (1975), Cardiology Fellowship Harvard Medical School/Brigham & Women's Hospital (1978), Cardiovascular Medicine Research Interest Heart disease in pregnancy Myocardial infarction Surgical and medical management of heart disease Publications Featured Publications The effect of Pravastatin on coronary events after myocardial infarction in patients with average cholesterol levels Sacks FM, Pfeffer MA, Moyi LA, Rouleau JL, Rutherford JD, Cole TG, Brown L, Theroux P, Warnica JW, Arnold MO, Nash DT, Wun C-C, Davis BR, Hawkins CM, Braunwald E for the Cholesterol and Recurrent Events (CARE) Trial Investigators N Engl J Med 335 1001-9 Effects of captopril on ischemic events after myocardial infarction. Results of the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement Trial Rutherford JD, Pfeffer MA, Moyi LA, Davis BR, Flaker GC, Kowey PR, Lamas GA, Miller HS, Packer M, Rouleau JL, Braunwald E on behalf of the SAVE Investigators Circulation 1994 1731-1738 Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Reimold SC, Rutherford JD N Engl J Med 2002 344 1629-1630 Reduction of stroke incidence after myocardial infaction with pravastatin: The Cholesterol and Recurrent Events (CARE)Study 59. Plehn JF, Davis BR, Sacks F, Rouleau JL, Pfeffer MA, Bernstein V, Cuddy TE, Moye L, Piller L, Rutherford J, Simpson L, Braunwald E for the CARE Investigators Circulation 1999 99 216-223 The effect of captopril on mortality and morbidity in patients with left ventricular dysfunction following myocardial infarction. Results of the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) trial Pfeffer MA, Braunwald E, Moyi LA, Basta MD, Brown E, Cuddy TE, Davis BR, Geltman EM, Goldman S, Flaker GC, Klein M, Lamas GA, Packer M, Rouleau J, Rouleau JL, Rutherford JD, Wertheimer JH, Hawkins CM on behalf of the SAVE Investigators N Engl J Med 1992 327 669-77 Editorial: Maternal Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Its Consequences for Mother and Child. Rutherford, J.D Circulation 2011 124 1599-1601 Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Reimold, SC, Rutherford, JD N Engl J Med 2001 344 1629-1630 Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease - Therapy and Outcomes. Rutherford, JD Coronary Artery Disease 2001 12 149-152 Association between C-reactive protein, Anti-chlamydia pneumoniae antibodies and vascular function in healthy adults. Sharma N, Rutherford, JD, Grayston JT, et al. Am J Cardiol 2001 87 119-121 Systolic Hypertension in Older Patients - Are Calcium Channel Antagonists Safe? Rutherford, JD Coronary Artery Disease 2000 11 621-623 Results 1-10 of 10 1 Honors & Awards Best Doctors in America2001 - 2012 (2012) Gifted Educator Award of the American College of Cardiology (2011) UT Southwestern Health System IR Founders Award (2010) Distinguished Physician Award ParklandOutstanding Individual Contribution to Parkland Hospital (1995) George W. Thorn Award - Brigham & Women'sOutstanding Contribution to Clinical Education (1988) NZ Medical Research Council Overseas Research FellowshipNZ Medical Research Council (1977) NZ Heart FoundationTraveling Research FellowshipIvan and Maud St. Romain / NZ Heart Foundation (1976) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA) (1994) Association of Subspecialty Professors (2001) Association of University Cardiologists (1999) Dallas County Medical Society (1993) Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (1984) Fellow of the American Heart Association (2001)
