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) as a Staff
Associate in the intramural (Molecular
Diseases Branch/Lipid Metabolism Branch)
and Science Project Officer in the
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 where
he was a sub-investigator on a large
NIH Specialized Center of Research
Program Project Grant. He founded
and directs the Ventura Heart Institute,
which conducts education, research
(he has been a Principal Investigator
in over 120 clinical trials in new
and novel therapies for dyslipidemias,
heart failure, hypertension, anti-arrhythmics
and devices), as well as in information
technology and preventive cardiovascular
programs. He is the principal
investigator for cardiovascular clinical
trials with Westlake Medical Research
(www.wmresearch.com) and is directing
the development of a regional clinical
research consortium. 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. In 2001,
he was the recipient of one of four
international grants from the London-based
Future Forum on innovative preventive
cardiology strategies.
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. He was appointed to the Lumetra,
formerly known as CMRI (California’s
Medicare Quality Improvement Organization),
Expert Panel on Acute Myocardial Infarction
for hospital quality improvement.
He served as the first Chief of Medicine
for the Thousand Oaks Surgical Hospital.
From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Loh
was Program Director for Cardiovascular
Services for the Community Memorial
Health System based in Ventura, CA,
assisting them in the development
of a comprehensive heart and vascular
clinical program. He is a Consultant
Physician for the Ventura County Health
Care Agency, focusing on disease management
and enhanced development of clinical
research programs. He is a
charter member of Lipidologists of
Los Angeles, and a member of the Medical
Advisory Board for Doximity™.
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 was a member
of then 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. A link to
his healthcare information technology
lecture at UC Berkeley for the Center
for Information Technology Research
in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
and the School of Public Health is
available by clicking the link on
the home page.
He was an invited presenter to the
Inaugural Harvard America China Health
Summit in Boston on the topic of healthcare
information technology to improve
quality of care and patient outcome.
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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