Kendrick Shunk is the Director of Interventional Cardiology at San Francisco VA Health Care System.
Dr. Shunk's primary research interests are in the imaging of atherosclerotic plaque - the substance that builds up on the inner walls of diseased blood vessels -and clinical trials of novel devices or invasive strategies to treat cardiovascular diseases. A related research goal is integration, co-registration, and co-display of multi-modality image information for assessing and treating cardiovascular disease in real time.
He received his medical degree and a PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Pathobiology from the University of South Carolina.
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