John S. Douglas Jr MD, FSCAI

Dr. Douglas is a professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology and the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Emory University Hospital. He is a graduate of the University of the South and received his M.D. degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina and at Emory University. Dr. Douglas was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy Medical Corps and served at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base and in An Hoa, South Vietnam. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at Emory University and subsequently joined the Emory University School of Medicine faculty and the Emory Clinic where he has practiced invasive and interventional cardiology.

In 1980, Dr. Douglas was a member of the team that performed the first coronary angioplasty at Emory University Hospital and in 1987 the first coronary stent in the United States. He was a partner of the late Andreas Gruentzig, the inventor of coronary angioplasty and participated in the development of current coronary angioplasty and stent techniques. He is a Fellow and prior member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Cardiology and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention and is currently listed in Castle Connolly Guide of America’s Top Doctors, Atlanta’s Top Doctors, and The Best Doctors in America.