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Walter Clair, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Vice Chair for Community Health, Department of Medicine

Walter Clair
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Walter Clair, MD, MPH, is the Vice Chair for Community Health in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt and a Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Meharry Medical College. He received his AB degree from Harvard College, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His post graduate training included cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He served as the Executive Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute from 2015-2021. Dr. Clair received the Vanderbilt Cardiology Faculty Teaching Award two consecutive years (2007 and 2008). He is one the eight College Mentors for the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Advisory Colleges. This involves student wellness and career counseling as well as teaching in The Learning Community, a required seminar for medical students. In 2012 he received the Levi Watkins Faculty Award for Commitment to Diversity at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. In 2016, he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha (Medical Honor Society). He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Rhythm Society, and the American Heart Association. After joining the Education Committee of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2009, the next year he became co-chair of its Patient and Caregivers sub-committee and served in that role until 2014. In 2013 he was a national medical spokesperson for the Heart Rhythm Society's "Arrest the Risk" campaign to increase awareness of sudden death risk factors among minority patients. He has served on the board of the Nashville chapter of the American Heart Association (President 2018-19). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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Education

MD - Harvard University, 1981

Internship - Dept of Med - Brigham & Women's Hospital, 1982

Residency - Gen med/Primary Care Chief Resident - Brigham & Women's Hospital, 1983

Residency - Chief Resident - Brigham & Women's Hospital, 1984

MPH - Harvard University, 1985

Fellowship - Epidemiology - Harvard University, 1985

Fellowship - Cardiology - Duke University, 1992

Fellowship - Electrophysiology - Duke University, 1993

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