Jordana Kron MD

Dr. Kron graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a major in Chemistry and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she also completed an Internal Medicine Residency. She completed fellowships in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Florida. She joined VCU faculty as a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist VCU in 2008, where she was Program Director for the electrophysiology fellowship program from 2013-2017 and an Associate Professor since 2015. Her primary research interest is cardiac sarcoidosis. She served on the writing committee for the HRS Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Arrhythmias in Cardiac Sarcoidosis and was section leader for Atrial Arrhythmias. She is a founding member of the Cardiac Sarcoidosis Consortium, an international collaborative group committed to furthering the understanding of cardiac sarcoidosis. In 2018, she was selected as the VCU Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) Translational Scholar.

She has received funding from the VCU Johnson Center, the VCU CCTR, and Pauley Heart Center to support her translational research. In 2019, she received an AHA Collaborative Sciences Award to investigate novel therapy with Interleukin-1 blockade for cardiac sarcoidosis and also received an NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences R21 grant. Clinically, she is a busy cardiac electrophysiologist who has been named “Top Docs” in Richmond Magazine multiple years. She is a founding member of the multidisciplinary VCU Sarcoidosis Clinic which has been recognized as a WASOG Sarcoidosis Center since 2017 and was named a Sarcoidosis Center of Excellence by WASOG/Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research in 2019, one of only 25 centers in the world to receive this designation.

She has lectured nationally and internationally on cardiac sarcoidosis and other electrophysiology topics including physiologic pacing and prevention of sudden death, including at Heart Rhythm, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American College of Physicians, ACC Board Review and Cardiostim. She is on the Editorial Board for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. She has also co-chaired the Pauley Heart Center annual Heart Health in Women Symposium since 2016, a leading regional conference on women’s cardiac health.