Richard White, MD, is the clinical director of the Center for Integrated Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging and head of the section of cardiovascular imaging in the department of radiology at The Cleveland Clinic. He holds joint appointments in the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, the department of cardiovascular medicine and the department of medical subspecialty, pediatrics in the division of pediatrics. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology-Diagnostic. He holds certification in controlled substances and is an authorized user of radioactive materials. White's clinical specialty interests are cardiovascular MRI and CT.
A New York native, White graduated summa cum laude and as valedictorian of Hamilton College and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. He took his residencies in internal medicine and diagnostic radiology at the University of California-San Francisco Hospitals, which then offered him a two-year National Institutes of Health fellowship in cardiovascular imaging. White also received a Sarnoff Foundation Cardio-Vascular Research Fellowship from the Duke University Medical Center. He joined The Cleveland Clinic in 1989 as a staff radiologist in the department of diagnostic radiology.
White has held several academic appointments including professor of medicine and radiology at the Ohio State University School of Medicine; assistant professor in the department of radiology at Case Western Reserve University; and assistant professor in the department of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He has had numerous visiting professorships in the United States and Canada.
His current clinical grant-funded research has focused on the PediPump, an implantable pediatric ventricular assist device funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes of the NIH; the echocardiographic assessment of cardiovascular adaptation and countermeasures in microgravity, funded by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute; and the Restore-SR Study for pulmonary vein imaging funded by a pharmaceutical company. White has a long history of clinical research studies as principal or co-investigator. His clinical research has yielded several potential and approved U.S. patents, among them a method he developed with his research colleagues for synchronizing magnetic resonance imaging data to body motion.
He is widely published as author or co-author of hundreds of articles and abstracts in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the American Heart Journal, Radiology, and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. White has published more than 50 chapters in medical textbooks. He has been an invited lecturer to medical symposia and conferences worldwide to present his clinical experience and research studies.
White is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the American Heart Association's (FAHA) Council on Cardiovascular Radiology & Intervention. He is a senior fellow of the Stanley J. Sarnoff Society of Fellows for Research in Cardiovascular Science. He is a member of the American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Fleischner Society, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance, the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging, the Radiological Society of North America. He was a founding member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He sits on several councils of the American Heart Association and is a member of the AHA's Northeast Ohio affiliate Clinical Cardiology Council.