Irving
Kent Loh, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A.,
F.C.C.P., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Loh is a
board certified internist and subspecialty
certified cardiac specialist with
a special focus on preventive cardiology.
He is a Fellow of the American College
of Cardiology, Fellow of the American
Heart Association (Council on Epidemiology
and Prevention), Fellow of the College
of Chest Physicians and Fellow of
the American College of Physicians.
He is a former Assistant Clinical
Professor of Medicine at UC Irvine
and former Assistant Professor of
Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine.
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His
undergraduate education was at UC
Berkeley (elected to Phi Beta Kappa
as a junior), medical school (Regents
Scholar; elected to Alpha Omega Alpha,
the medical honor society, as a junior)
and internal medicine residency at
UC San Francisco, and initial lipid
research at the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in both
intramural (Molecular Diseases Branch)
and extramural (Cardiac Diseases Branch;
Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases)
divisions. He subsequently was on
faculty jointly in both the Department
of Cardiology and the Department of
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He
founded and directs the Ventura Heart
Institute, which conducts education,
research (approximately 100 clinical
trials in dyslipidemias, heart failure,
hypertension, anti-arrhythmics and
devices), information technology and
preventive cardiovascular programs.
In 1987, Dr. Loh created and has continued
to refine a unique electronic medical
record system that allows him to care
for his patients and provide key data
to colleagues or emergency facilities
anywhere and anytime.
He
chaired the HCA Los Robles Hospital
and Medical Center's Institutional
Review Board for 18 years, founded
the Bioethics Committee serving as
its chair for 3 years, and directed
the echocardiography laboratory for
15 years. He has been a member of
Amgen’s Institutional BioSafety Committee,
the State of California Department
of Health Services Cardiovascular
Disease Prevention Coalition, the
manuscript review board and ad hoc
editor for the Journal of Clinical
Outcomes Management, the Expert Panel
on Outcomes Evaluation and Research
for the American Heart Association,
and an advisor to the Advisory Board
Company/Cardiology Preeminence Roundtable
based in Washington DC. He served
as an Executive Steering Committee
member of the West Lipid Association
Board of Directors. He is a member
of the Vascular Biology Working Group,
the Future Forum and the Mobile Healthcare
Alliance. He has served as the cardiovascular
consultant for the SportsMed Company/Sports
Club of America, and was appointed
to the State of California Health
Executive Advisory Review Team to
consult on preventive cardiology,
and to the Information Systems subcommittee
of The Healthcare Collaborative at
UCLA. Most recently, he has been appointed
to the Lumetra, formerly known as
CMRI (California’s Medicare Quality
Improvement Organization), Expert
Panel on Acute Myocardial Infarction
for hospital quality improvement.
In
1993, he was appointed to two White
House Briefing Teams (Budget and Finance,
and Provider Choice, serving as that
team's facilator) for the President’s
healthcare reform proposal and served
on the Executive Steering Committee
of the National Health Policy Council,
a bipartisan non-profit foundation
chaired by Sen. Jay Rockefeller IV.
He was a surrogate speaker for the
White House on health care reform,
lecturing nationally and regionally
as well as providing interviews for
newspapers, radio and television programs.
He has served as a healthcare advisor
for the presidential campaigns of
retired General Wesley Clark, former
Senator John Edwards and is a member
of Senator Obama's Healthcare Advisory
Committee.
He
has published in the medical literature
and provided numerous articles, op-eds
and interviews for magazines, newspapers,
radio, and television including segments
in New York with NBC’s Today
show on premature heart disease and
ABC’s HOME SHOW on health care
reform. He writes a health column,
Second Opinion, for the Star newspapers
(copies of which are accessible from
the top menus of these web pages).
Lecture topics include: cardiovascular
risk reduction and integrated disease
management strategies for the primary
and secondary prevention of heart
disease, the disease management of
congestive heart failure, dyslipidemias,
hypertension and the use of medical
information technology to optimize
quality and outcome in high risk and
high cost patients. He has conducted
primers for colleagues on computer
presentations at regional and national
speaker bureaus. He has delivered
approximately 350 lectures, keynotes,
presentations, abstracts and webcasts.
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