University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine neurology chairman Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., M.S., is the new national president of the American Heart Association for its 2010-11 fiscal year, which began July 1. He became the first neurologist to hold the position when he was inducted into office.In addition to serving as neurology chair at the medical school, Sacco is the Olemberg Family Chair in Neurological Diseases, Miller Professor of Neurology, Epidemiology and Human Genetics, and chief of the neurology service at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Sacco has been an American Heart Association volunteer for more than 25 years, beginning when he was a student at Boston University Medical School, after the association awarded him a medical student scholarship. He later served as president of the New York City regional board while on the faculty at Columbia University.
