Matthew Budoff M.D.,FACC

Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Medicine Medical Director, HeartSavers

About Matthew Budoff M.D.,FACC

Matthew J. Budoff, M.D., FACC is a co-founder of Heart Savers and has been acting as National Medical Director since 1999. Dr. Budoff is the chief instructor for physicians worldwide for the interpretation of EBT scans. He is also the founding member and treasurer of United States Society of Arteriosclerosis Imaging and Chairman of EBT users Committee. He is currently the Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he has been an Attending Physician since 1993. Additionally, Dr. Budoff is the Chairman of the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statement on EBT and Multi-slice CT Scanner.

1990 - Dr. Budoff graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine with honors and completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology at Harbor-UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Budoff has lectured all over the world and received many honors, awards, numerous grants and fellowships. He is a board certified cardiologist that has published over forty papers in prestigious medical journals on Electron Beam Tomography and is highly regarded by his fellow physicians as a world class cardiologist.