Hugo R. Ramos, M.D., Ph.D. is Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, and past Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Hospital de Urgencias, Córdoba, Argentina. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and a grant from the Secretary of Science and Technology of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba for clinical research. Thesis title: Aminoterminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide plasma levels as a marker of myocardial ischemia in the evaluation of patients with acute chest pain of intermediate probability for acute coronary syndromes. Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina. Thesis supervisor: Adolfo J. de Bold, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Investigator for 52 international clinical trials on acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation. Served as President of the Ischemic Heart Disease Committee (2004) of the Argentine Federation of Cardiology, Vicepresident of the Scientific Committee of the XXXIV National Congress of Cardiology of the Argentine Federation of Cardiology (2016), and Past President of the Cordoba Cardiology Society (2017). Member of the National Editorial Committee of the Revista de la Federacion Argentina de Cardiologia and Advisor of the Ischemic Heart Disease Committee of the Argentine Federation of Cardiology. Cardiologist at the Instituto Modelo de Cardiology de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina.

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