Richard E. Kerber
University of Iowa, USA
2009

Richard E. Kerber, M.D., is an academic cardiologist who has a long standing interest in general cardiology, cardiac imaging by ultrasound (echocardiography) and cardiac defibrillation and resuscitation from cardiac arrest. He has been a Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa since 1971, and has also served as President of the American Society of Echocardiography and Chairman of the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care and the AHA’s Emergency Cardiac Care Program. He enjoys playing the classical clarinet, and riding his bicycles on various week long cross state bicycle rides.